Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing Women's Work and Households in Global Production (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780804789080)

Gendered Commodity Chains is the first book to consider the fundamental role of gender in global commodity chains. It challenges long-held assumptions of global economic systems by identifying the crucial role social reproduction plays in production and by declaring the household as an important site of production. In affirming the importance of women's work in global production, this cutting-edge volume fills an important gender gap in the field of global commodity and value chain analysis. With thirteen chapters by an international group of scholars from sociology, anthropology, economics, women's studies, and geography, this volume begins with an eye-opening feminist critique of existing commodity chain literature. Throughout its remaining five parts, Gendered Commodity Chains addresses ways women's work can be integrated into commodity chain research, the forms women's labor takes, threats to social reproduction, the impact of indigenous and peasant households on commodity chains, the rapidly expanding arenas of global carework and sex trafficking, and finally, opportunities for worker resistance. This broadly interdisciplinary volume provides conceptual and methodological guides for academics, graduate students, researchers, and activists interested in the gendered nature of commodity chains.

Author: Wilma A. Dunaway
ISBN-10: 0804789088
ISBN-13: 9780804789080
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2013
Pages: 309
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2014 pg. 119