The Remaking of Social Contracts :Feminists in a Fierce New World ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :Feminists in a Fierce New World

Publication series :1

Author: Sen   Gita;Durano   Marina;Seguino   Stephanie  

Publisher: Zed Books‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9781780321608

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781780321592

Subject: D440 feminist theory

Keyword: 社会学

Language: ENG

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Powerful insights from leading gender and development scholars.

Chapter

Social movements and human rights

Feminism in an interconnected world

Towards a remaking of social contracts

References

Part II: Governing Globalization: Critiquing the Reproduction of Inequality

Chapter 1: Financialization, Distribution and Inequality

The crisis is not just a financial crisis

Table 1.1 Global trends in income inequality

A framework for transformational macroeconomic policy

Conclusion

Notes

References

Box II.1 Multilateralism: From Advancement to Self-defence

References

Box II.2 Women’s Status and Free Trade in the Pacific

Pacific women and free trade

Resisting more free trade

References

Chapter 2: New Poles of Accumulation and Realignment of Power in the Twenty-first Century

The shift in economic power

Challenges and opportunities for South–South cooperation

Challenges for activism

Conclusion

Notes

References

Chapter 3 The Modern Business of War

The militarization of the economy

Figure 3.1 US budget: state, defence and non-defence expenditures, 2000–2014

Table 3.1 Top ten US defence industries, government contracts and PE ratios, 2002/2010

Table 3.2 Old and new G7 countries: share of world total GDP

Table 3.3 Old and new G7 countries: basic data 2010

Table 3.4 GDP in US$, PPP projections

Wages and social control, and the control of terrorism

Table 3.5 Wage bill as % of GDP, selected Latin American countries

The modern business of war

Conclusion

Notes

References

Box II.3 Militarization, Illicit Economies and Governance

References

Box II.4 Commodity Exports and Persistent Inequality under Latin American Progressive Governments

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Chapter 4: The Convergences and Divergences of Human Rights and Political Economy

The human rights approach to development

Critiques of the human rights approach

The political economy approach to development

Critiques of the political economy approach

Defining and taking up the challenge

Notes

References

Part III: Political Ecology and Climate Justice: Tackling Sustainability and Climate Change

Chapter 5: Climate Non-negotiables

Market ‘fixes’

Technological ‘fixes’

Financing the ‘fixes’ or fixing the finance

Green or greed economy

Be realistic, demand the impossible

Recovering feminist engagement

Feminist principles and alternatives

Notes

References

Box III.1 Primitive Accumulation Revisited

Primitive accumulation goes global

The corrosive power of the moneylenders

Women take the brunt

References

Chapter 6: Geoengineering: A Gender Issue?

What is geoengineering?

From engineering to geoengineering

Geoengineering technologies

What’s gender got to do with it?

Twelve ways the geoengineering discourse is gendered

Geoengineering governance

Notes

References

Box III.2 Green Rhetoric in the Asian Fiscal Stimulus

References

Chapter 7: Land Grabs, Food Security and Climate Justice: A Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

Linking hunger, food security and social reproduction from a feminist perspective

Inadequate and inequitable responses to hunger and food insecurity

Land grabs and climate change: the scramble for Africa’s land

Land grabs, climate change and food production

Land grabs and fuel production

Policy responses to lands grabs and climate change: making matters worse?

‘Win–win’ governance, ecological and gender justice

Box: Daewoo and breadbasket deals

References

Box III.3 African Feminist Resistance And Climate Change Politics

References

Part IV: Secularism and Biopolitics: Confronting Fundamentalism and Deciphering Biopolitics

Chapter 8: Negotiating Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at the UN: A Long and Winding Road

Setting out at ICPD and Beijing

Going uphill at ICPD+5 and Beijing+5

Running to stay in place during the Bush era

Finally turning a corner in 2009

A different path: HIV and AIDS

Challenges and ways forward

Notes

References

Chapter 9: The Making of a Secular Contract

Gender and secularism: history of a concept

Fundamentalist movements: no room for transformation

A gender problem

Examples of fundamentalism contesting feminism

Conclusion

Notes

References

Box IV.1 The Abortion Debate in Latin America and the Caribbean: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

References

Box IV.2 MDGs, SRHR and Poverty-Reduction Policies: Evidence from a DAWN Project

Fragmentation of SRHR

Conclusions

Notes

References

Chapter 10: Sexuality as a Weapon of Biopolitics: Rethinking Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill

Framings: intersectionality and biopolitics

Re-examining Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill

Sexuality politics as decoy

Resisting biopolitics

Coda

Notes

References

Box IV.3 HIV and SRHR

Staking women’s claims within AIDS responses

References

Box IV.4 Sexuality and Human Rights in Brazil: The Long and Winding Road

References

Part V: Frontier Challenges: Building Nation-States and Social Movements

Chapter 11: The State of States

Contextualizing social contracts in the South: colonial and post-colonial continuities

The post-colonial state and women’s citizenship

Current challenges in discourses on states and governance

Conclusion

Notes

References

Box V.1 ICTS: Efficient Exploitation or Feminist Tool?

References

Chapter 12: Religious Fundamentalism and Secular Governance

Women and fundamentalism today

Notes

References

Box V.2 Case Study of Engagement and Responses

Chapter 13: Reframing Peace and Security for Women

Changing terrains of security

Linking women to concerns of peace and security at the UN

Peace and security for women: a resolution mired in contradiction

Understanding agency

Understanding the complexity of peace and security

References

Box V.3 LBT Rights and Militarization in Post-Conflict Context

Hierarchy of rights

Post-conflict nature of the victorious state

Entrenched militarization

Economic and ecological justice

Action for LBT rights

References

Chapter 14: Feminist Activisms for New Global Contracts amidst Civil Indignation

Feminist activism in a dysfunctional multilateral system

Politics of solidarity and joint global actions

Survival and demise in a financially distressed environment

Feminist leadership for movement building in precarious times

Notes

References

Box V.4 The Promise and Pitfalls of UN Women

More than the sum of its parts

References

Box V.5 Young People: Shattering the Silence on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

References

Contributors

Index

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