Feminist Flows, Feminist Fault Lines: Women’s Machineries and Women’s Movements in Latin America

Phillips, Lynne; Cole, Sally

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“…To end the exploitation of women in poorer nations, we need to understand the role of global capitalism and its interaction with the patriarchal family structure. 16 Feminists argued that the CC perspective shifted the world-systems perspective's focus regarding how commodity production networks create an unequal world system to how CC help economic actors to 'facilitate development at a unit level'. 17 Both the world-systems and the CC perspectives failed to focus on the gendered dimension of the exploitation of poorer nations by core nations in their analysis.…”

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confidence: 99%

Feminised Workforce in Transnational Production: Bangladesh Ready-made Garment Industry

Anwary

2017

History and Sociology of South Asia

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This article examines the lived experiences of workers and the organisational practices of a ready-made garment factory. It illuminates the centrality of social reproduction and the unpaid work of poor women of Bangladesh producing commodities that are channelled to core societies. This article demonstrates that women's responsibility in social reproduction conditions the nature of their paid work, the terms of their employment and the forms of workplace control. Women workers face extremely rigid gender divisions of labour in the sphere of care work within the household and in workplace. Women workers' unpaid housework reproduces the material bases of global capitalism by intensifying the labour demands on factory workers and the production process. Commodity chains (CC) threaten the productive and reproductive labour of poor women in periphery nations through the implementation of strategies by capitalists in core nations and by local capitalists connected to the CC. This article demonstrates the importance of incorporating class, gender, productive and reproductive labour, as well as households into world-systems analysis.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminised Workforce in Transnational Production: Bangladesh Ready-made Garment Industry

Anwary

2017

History and Sociology of South Asia

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“…The acts of violence towards women community leaders resemble a 'patriarchal backlash' in which women in hyper-masculine spaces, are targeted for being women and for their leadership roles (Zulver 2021). Women's leadership is a form of resistance in highly violent contexts (Zulver 2021) that seeks to achieve social change in the communities (Phillips and Cole 2009). These interactions not only mean a risk to women's lives, but also doing community work under constant danger and fear.…”

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Agency in Contexts of Violence and Crime: Coping Strategies of Women Community Leaders vis-à-vis Criminal Groups in Medellín, Colombia

Rivera

Mejía

2022

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development

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This article explores women community leaders' relationship and interactions with criminal groups in Medellín, Colombia. Based on in-depth interviews in low-income neighborhoods, this article shows that women community leaders develop coping strategies to deal with the everyday violence that is largely connected to the presence of combos, which are criminal groups. We identify three coping strategies: confrontation, negotiation, and avoiding confrontation, which are not exclusionary from one another. These coping strategies are understood not only as a form of surviving in environments with high levels of violence and crime, but also they are part of women community leaders' development of agency. We aim to go beyond the 'passive/agency binary' (Hume and Wilding 2020) by understanding women community leaders' coping strategies as a form of situated and contingent agency.

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“…Class hierarchies are especially salient since a divide emerged in the 1990s between salaried women employed in professionalized feminist organizations and non-remunerated women in informal collectives and community-based associations (Alvarez 1999;Markowitz and Tice 2002;Schild 2002;Thayer 2010). Likewise, existing feminist movements are sites of struggle over social hierarchies based on race, ethnicity, sexuality, and urban-rural divides (Caldwell 2010;Duarte and Bastian 2012;Phillips and Cole 2009;Richards 2006). Richards (2006) found that Mapuche women and workingclass urban women in Chile did not perceive that their demands and priorities were reflected in the gains made by existing feminist movements, thereby prompting them to pursue their own feminist mobilizing.…”

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“…In turn, feminist movements became the central protagonist in opposing military rule and returning to democratic rule (Jaquette 1989;Vargas 1992). They faced subsequent challenges of maintaining this political role after the transition, as governments saw them as providers of technical know-how rather than as representatives of civil society regarding gender issues (Alvarez et al 2002;Phillips and Cole 2009;Rios Tobar 2003;Schild 1998).…”

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Social Processes Underlying Movement Influence: Young Adult Feminist Activists’ Interactions with Professionalized Feminist Organizations in Ecuador and Peru

Coe

2020

The Sociological Quarterly

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Despite extensive research on the influence between social movements, knowledge remains limited to the basic social processes by which this occurs. This article locates these social processes in the accounts among young adult feminist activists in Ecuador and Peru. Qualitative interviews were conducted and analyzed among 21 young adult feminist activists from eight groups. The findings show how their feminist mobilizing was influenced by interactions with professionalized feminist organizations that were simultaneously inclusive and exclusionary. Three in/exclusionary interactions captured basic social processes whereby young adult feminist activists struggled to define modes of participation, organizational practices, and targets of engagement.

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Feminist Flows, Feminist Fault Lines: Women’s Machineries and Women’s Movements in Latin America

Cited by 35 publications

References 21 publications

Feminised Workforce in Transnational Production: Bangladesh Ready-made Garment Industry

Feminised Workforce in Transnational Production: Bangladesh Ready-made Garment Industry

Agency in Contexts of Violence and Crime: Coping Strategies of Women Community Leaders vis-à-vis Criminal Groups in Medellín, Colombia

Social Processes Underlying Movement Influence: Young Adult Feminist Activists’ Interactions with Professionalized Feminist Organizations in Ecuador and Peru

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