Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies,

Corporate globalization has intensified in recent years, taking a terrible toll on the lives of ordinary women in the global North and South. The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Armed Repression, and Women's Povertyinvestigates the related processes of neoliberal economic restructuring and increased militarization, tracking policy and its enforcement to its impact on low-income women. This interdisciplinary volume provides rich analyses of the oppressive working and living conditions of urban and rural women, rightward shifts in public policies, and women's resistance to these developments.

The policies and ideologies of neoliberal globalization	p. 1
The vicious cycle of AIDS, poverty, and neoliberalism	p. 16
In her name : the gender order of global poverty management	p. 28
Under the western eyes of fashion : Marie Claire's construction of global feminism	p. 40
Impacts of neoliberal policy and ideology : case studies	p. 55
Tea's fortunes and famines : global capital, women workers, and survival in Indian plantation country	p. 57
Macroeconomics and microentrepreneurs : comparing two island nations' responses to neoliberalism and its impact on women's lives	p. 73
Politicians, think tanks, and the global promotion of the "Wisconsin Model" of welfare reform	p. 86
Service provisioning as political activity : struggles for citizenship in Britain's declining welfare state	p. 98
Laboring under corporate globalization : case studies	p. 111
Neoliberalism, globalization, and the international division of care	p. 113
The tortilla behemoth : sexualized despotism and women's resistance in a transnational Mexican tortilla factory	p. 127
Roses, thorns, and seven dollars a day : women workers in Colombia's export flower industry	p. 140
The process of exporting neoliberal development : the consequences of the growth of export processing zones in El Salvador	p. 152
War and military repression	p. 167
Bacteria, bioterrorism, and the geranium ladies of Guatemala	p. 169
Globalization denied : gender and poverty in Iraq and Palestine	p. 178
Amazons go to war without weapons : women and the conflict in Escravos, Niger delta	p. 190
Building empire on the backs of women : U.S. actions or the role of the United States in Afghanistan	p. 204
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Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Repression, and Women's Poverty

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