GSWS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sex Tourism, Human Rights Watch, Charlotte Bunch

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 101
• Professor: Lara Campbell

Document Summary

Bringing the global home - charlotte bunch (2003), pp. Purpose: argues that seemingly gender-neutral issues such as poverty, hunger, and nuclear disarmament are in fact feminist issues that bind the local to the global, and vice versa. The globetrotting sneaker - enloe, c (2003) pp. Purpose: shows how consumers and labourers are connected in a global market. A job or your right: continued sex discrimination in mexico"s maquiladora sector - Purpose: report on women"s work in the export economy (the maquiladora ) shows how work done by women in free-market economies is often structured by fundamental human rights violations, such as denial of work to pregnant women. Readings this week examine the effects of globalization on women"s lives, the ways feminists have dev int"l organization to respond to the process of globalization and the need to think globally, act locally. The growth of low-paid and insecure jobs in the service sector.