Free markets and state control: a feminist challenge to Davos Man and Big Brother

Danner, Mona J. E.; Young, Gay

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“…This gendered description not only applies to a specific group of men, but also to the institutions in the international arena, such as markets and trade, politics, and neo-liberalism. Danner and Young [2003] call these two contemporary forms of hegemonic masculinity 'Davos Man' and 'Big Brother'. Davos Man represents global elite business masculinity.…”

Section: Women Gender Feminism and Masculinity In Globalisationmentioning

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Gender and Globalisation: Labour Changes in the Global Economy

Kolárová¹

2006

Czech Sociological Review

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The article focuses on gender aspects of globalisation and global restructuring and criticises the masculine bias of mainstream theories of globalisation. It is aimed at adding a global dimension to Czech gender studies. It looks at the way in which globalisation is gendered and based on gender ideologies, and how global restructuring affects and change gender systems. Primarily economic globalisation is addressed, and the changes in the organisation of labour globally are examined. Global production is dependent on cheap women's labour in the factories of multinational corporations in the global south. The process of rendering labour more flexible and informal is associated with its feminisation. Care work and migration are also becoming feminised on a global scale. The article also analyses domestic work performed in the United States and Western Europe by women migrants from developing countries. All these processes are occurring within the context of neo-liberal policies and the changing role of states amidst a global restructuring, which needs to be examined from a gender perspective.

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Section: Women Gender Feminism and Masculinity In Globalisationmentioning

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Gender and Globalisation: Labour Changes in the Global Economy

Kolárová¹

2006

Czech Sociological Review

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“…Development aid is now coupled with deals related to 'anti-terrorism' efforts at home and abroad. As in the USA, copy-cat 'anti-terrorist' policy in countries such as India or Colombia serves to suppress internal dissent (Danner and Young 2003). Meanwhile, as critics including Naomi Klein argue, the overt intervention of the USA and its allies in Iraq seeks to cement US economic dominance in the region (Klein 2003(Klein , 2004.…”

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Where to for women's movements and the MDGs?

Barton¹

2005

Gender & Development

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“…The conditions pitting the ideology of free-markets against state-led development no longer exist, to be sure. Instead, the intricate connections between the global war on terror and global economic restructuring now serve the hegemonic project of developmentalism -"making the world safe for markets" (MacEwen 1998, 65; see also Danner and Young 2003).…”

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Introduction: key issues and directions for the sociology of development

Young

2005

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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The analysis in this special issue on the sociology of development continues the ongoing process of problematizing the development enterprise (see McMichael 2000, Reddock 2000. While the notion of modernization seems out of fashion, and few scholars would juxtapose the so-called "progress and superiority" of modernization with the supposed "stagnation and inferiority" of tradition, the concept of development retains considerable ideological content. Evaluating development theories solely in terms of their relevance for policy both privileges the dominant worldview of the development community and masks the ideological premises of that worldview (see Chowdhry and Menjivar 2002). The conditions pitting the ideology of free-markets against state-led development no longer exist, to be sure. Instead, the intricate connections between the global war on terror and global economic restructuring now serve the hegemonic project of developmentalism -"making the world safe for markets" (

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Free markets and state control: a feminist challenge to Davos Man and Big Brother

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Gender and Globalisation: Labour Changes in the Global Economy

Gender and Globalisation: Labour Changes in the Global Economy

Where to for women's movements and the MDGs?

Introduction: key issues and directions for the sociology of development

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