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Women in a Globalizing World
Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace

edited by
Angela Miles

INANNA Publications and Education Inc.
Toronto, Canada

Copyright 2013 Inanna Publications and Education Inc.

Individual copyright to their work is retained by the authors. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronically or mechanically, including photocopying, recording, or any information or storage retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.

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The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for its publishing program.

The publisher is also grateful for the kind support received from an Anonymous Fund at The Calgary Foundation.

Note from the publisher : Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credits in subsequent editions.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Women in a globalizing world : equality, development, diversity
and peace / edited by Angela Miles.

Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-926708-19-5

1. Sex role and globalization. 2. WomenSocial conditions.
3. WomenEconomic conditions. 4. GlobalizationSocial aspects.
5. Feminism. I. Miles, Angela Rose.

HQ1233.W6569 2013 305.42 C2012-907267-2

For Rosalie Bertell (1929-2012)
and Roxana Ng (1951-2013)

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction
by Angela Miles

FEMINIST ANALYSIS AND VISION

Womens Action Agenda 21 Preamble

Economic Globalization, Ecological Feminism, and Earth Democracy
by Vandana Shiva

An Open Letter: Native Culture and the Environment
by Eva Johnson

Re-enchanting the World: Technology and the Construction of the Commons
by Silvia Federici

Confronting Globalization: Feminist Spirituality as Political Strategy
by Alda Facio

Do We Need a New Moral Economy ?
by Maria Mies

Feminists for a Gift Economy: Position Statement for a Peaceful World

PART ONE
NEO-LIBERAL GLOBALIZATION: SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS

i. Introduction

Resistance is Possible
by Joyce A. Green

Thinking Globally: Women, Work and Caring
by Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong

I. RESTRUCTURING/LIBERALIZATION

The Global Crisis
by Silvia Federici

i. Free Trade

Globalization: Some Implications and Strategies for Women by Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Laurell Ritchie, Michelle Swenarchuk and Leah Vosko

Freedom for Whom? Globalization and Trade from the Standpoint of Garment Workers
by Roxana Ng

ii. Privatization

Why Privatization is a Womens Issue
by Jane Stinson

The Politics of Pay Equity in BC s Health Care System: The Role of Government, Multinational Corporations and Unions
by Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Marcy Cohen

iii. Cutbacks/Downsizing

Welfare Policy: A Critical Site of Struggle for Womens Safety
by Janet Mosher and Pat Evans

Womens Occupational Health in Social Services: Stress, Violence, and Workload
by Donna Baines

Advocacy, Activism and Social Change for Women in Prison
by Kim Pate

II. ENCLOSURE, COMMODIFICATION AND THEFT

The Politics of Sustainable Development: From Rio 1992 to Rio+20 in 2012 A Subsistence View
by Ana Isla

Some Notes on Liberalism, On Land, and On the Food Question
by Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Women and/as Commodities: A Brief Meditation
by Nancy Hartsock

The Invisibility of Womens Work: The Economics of Local and Global Bullshit
by Marilyn Waring

The Seed and the Earth: The Colonization of Regeneration
by Vandana Shiva

GMO s: Globalizing Male Omnipotence
by Helen Forsey

A Struggle for Clean Water and Livelihood: Canadian Mining in Costa Rica in the Era of Globalization
by Ana Isla

Changing Climate, Uncertain Future: Considering Rural Women in Climate Policies and Strategies
by Wendy Milne

III. DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATION, AND VIOLENCE

Our Violent Economy is Hurting Women
by Vandana Shiva

The Other Side of Globalization: The Legal Regulation of Cross-Border Movements
by Ratna Kapur

Women as Migrants: Members in National and Global Communities
by Audrey Macklin

Migrant Workers Amidst Globalization
by Pura Velasco

Gender Transformative Odysseys: Tracing the Experiences of Migrant Women in Rural Canada
by Kerry Preibisch

Globalization and the Sex Trade: Trafficking and Commodification of Women and Children
by Richard Poulin

Linking Violence and Poverty in Canadian Restructuring: The CASAC Report
by Lee Lakeman

PART TWO
ORGANIZING FOR ANOTHER WORLD

i. Introduction

The Global Capitalist Economic Agenda: Impact on Womens Human Rights
by Joan Grant-Cummings

Resistance is Necessary
by Joyce A. Green

I. UN DECADE FOR WOMEN AND BEYOND

i. Nairobi 1985 and Beyond

Development Crisis and Alternative Visions: Third World Womens Perspectives
by DAWN

The Worlds Women Unite in Diversity: Report on Nairobi
by Janice Wood Wetzel

Peace is the Way to Peace: Peace Tent at Nairobi
by Margaret Fulton

Women and Health: A Summary Report From the UN End of Decade for Women Conference
by Sari Tudiver

Womens Action Agenda 21: New Approaches to Sustainable Development
by Bonnie Kettel
International Indigenous Womens Caucus Statement
Statement from the Women of the South Caucus
North American Regional Caucus Report

ii. Beijing 1995 and Beyond

Beijing 95: Global Referendum on Human Rights of Women
by Charlotte Bunch, Mallika Dutt and Susan Fried

Pages from Beijing: A Womans Creed and the NGO Declaration
by Linda Christiansen-Ruffman

Ensuring Indigenous Womens Voices are Heard: The Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women
by Mary Sillett

Womens Sexual Autonomy: Universality, Sexual Rights, and Sexual Orientation at the Beijing Conference
by Shelagh Day

Putting Agriculture on the Agenda: Representing Farm Women in Beijing
by Karen Pedersen

II. RIGHTS AND REFORMS

Feminism, Peace, Human Rights and Human Security
by Charlotte Bunch

Creating Trialogue: Womens Constitutional Activism in Canada

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