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The wages of empire : neoliberal policies, repression, and women's poverty
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The wages of empire : neoliberal policies, repression, and women's poverty

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The policies and ideologies of neoliberal globalization
Introduction
Poverty and the vicious cycle of AIDS / Bernardo Useche and Amalia Cabezas
In her name: the politics of global poverty management / Ananya Roy
"Haute culture" for mail order missionaries: representing the third world
Woman in the American fashion magazine / Jennifer Lynn Stoever
Impacts of neo-liberal policy and ideology: case studies
Tea's fortunes and famines: global capital, women workers, and survival in Indian plantation country / Piya Chatterjee
Macro-economics and micro-entrepreneurs: comparing two island nations?
Responses to neo-liberalism and its impact on women's lives / Marina Karides
Politicians, think tanks, and the global promotion of the "Wisconsin model" of welfare reform / Ellen Reese
Service provisioning as political activity: struggles for citizenship in Britain's declining welfare state / Tracy Fisher
Laboring under corporate globalization: case studies
Neoliberalism, globalization, and the international division of care / Joya Misra and Sabine N. Merz
The tortilla behemoth: sexualized despotism and women's resistance in a transnational Mexican tortilla factory / Carolina Bank Mu?oz
Roses, thorns, and seven dollars a day: women workers in Colombia's export flower industry / Cynthia Mellon
The process of exporting neo-liberal development: the consequences of the growth of EPZs in El Salvador / Jill Esbenshade
War and military repression
Bacteria, bioterrorism, and the geranium ladies of Guatemala / Caitilyn Allen
"Globalization" under occupation: gender and poverty in Iraq and Palestine / Jennifer Olmsted
Amazons go to war without weapons: women and the conflict in Escravos Niger Delta / Joy Ngozi Ezeilo
Building empire on the backs of women: U.S. actions or the role of the United States in Afghanistan / Sonali Kolhatkar
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The wages of empire : neoliberal policies, repression, and women's poverty. ISBN 9781594513473. Published by Paradigm Publishers in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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