Kerr, Joanna

Women reinventing globalisation Edited by Joanna Kerr and Caroline Sweetman - Oxford: Oxfam 2003 - 157p. - Oxfam focus on gender .

Cover title. Includes bibliographical references.

Editorial / Joanna Kerr, Caroline Sweetman -- I. THE ECONOMICS OF GLOBALISATION -- Gender budgets and beyond: feminist fiscal policy in the context of globalisation / Nilüfer Çağatay -- Feminist responses to economic globalisation: some examples of past and future practice / Ruth Pearson -- Counting for something! Recognising women's contribution to the global economy through alternative accounting systems / Marilyn Waring -- African women challenging neo-liberal economic orthodoxy: the conception and mission of the GERA programme / Zo Randriamaro -- In search of an alternative development paradigm: feminist proposals from Latin America / Members of the Feminist Initiative of Cartagena -- If I were Minister of Finance...: gaining understanding of financial crisis through a simulation workshop / Mehrene Larudee, Caren Grown -- II. GLOBALISATION AS POLITICS -- Fundamentalisms, globalisation, and women's human rights in Senegal / Fatou Sow -- A daring proposal: campaigning for an inter-American convention on sexual rights and reproductive rights / Valéria Pandjiarjian -- Free markets and state control: a feminist challenge to Davos man and Big Brother / Mona Danner, Gay Young -- Using the master's tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women / Sanya Sarnàvka -- III. SPECIFIC ISSUES OF GLOBAL CONCERN -- Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millenium development goals / Lynn Freedman -- HIV/AIDS, globalisation and the international women's movement / Sisonke Msimang -- New genetic technologies and their impact on women: a feminist perspective / Lisa Handwerker -- Trafficking and women's human rights in a globalised world / Pamela Shifman -- IV. BUILDING A GLOBAL VOICE TO PROTECT WOMEN'S RIGHTS -- The women's movement in the era of globalisation: does it face extinction? / Andrea Medina Rosas, Shamillah Wilson -- Institutions, organisations and gender equality in an era of globalisation / Aruna Rao, David Kelleher.

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GLOBALIZATION--SOCIAL ASPECTS
WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
SEX ROLE--DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

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