Introduction: Women, Globalization and Fragmentation

Abstract

Changes in the global political economy since the 1980s have had a dramatic effect on the lives of women, who have become increasingly integrated as players in the world’s production and consumption processes. Women have been affected by globalization in the most diverse aspects of their lives and in the furthest reaches of the world. The effects have been multiple and contradictory, inclusionary and exclusionary. This book explores gendered implications of globalization at the grass roots in developing countries. It considers the conflicting interactions between the global and local political economies, cultures and faiths. Our main focus is to explore the very specific effects of increased global integration on women in developing countries, and how they have had to negotiate complex and rapid changes in diverse and contrasting circumstances.

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