Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Living in a Global North consumer society
- 1 Constructing relationships in a global economy
- 2 Globalising feminist legal theory
- 3 State, market and family in a Global North consumer society
- 4 Gender justice in Africa
- 5 From anonymity to attribution
- 6 Constructing body work
- 7 Global body work markets
- 8 Constructing South Asian womanhood through law
- 9 Trading and contesting belonging in multicultural Britain
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Living in a Global North consumer society
- 1 Constructing relationships in a global economy
- 2 Globalising feminist legal theory
- 3 State, market and family in a Global North consumer society
- 4 Gender justice in Africa
- 5 From anonymity to attribution
- 6 Constructing body work
- 7 Global body work markets
- 8 Constructing South Asian womanhood through law
- 9 Trading and contesting belonging in multicultural Britain
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Who do we care about and how? My aim has been to provoke new ways of thinking about the nature of gender inequalities in the context of contemporary globalisation and to enrich feminist legal scholarship so that it can better tackle global inequalities.
The book has deployed a framework that investigates the social and economic processes that link jurisdictions. These chains are governed by a range of discourses, which operate ‘horizontally’ in the terminology adopted by this book. Forms of governance, however, interact with the ‘vertical’ contexts within the particular jurisdictions. The domestic contexts construct gender relationships that both affect, and are affected by, the transnational governance discourses. This conclusion provides a summary of the way in which this plurality of discourses impacts both on understandings of gender relations and on the distribution of power. It then reviews the core conceptual framework adopted in this book through a consideration of three interrelated ways in which the concept of care has been used; as an activity; as a value; and as a method. I finish with some pointers on how to answer the question posed at the outset: who do we care about and how?
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- Gender, Law and Justice in a Global Market , pp. 296 - 317Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011