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'Global Woman', 2008.
This paper discusses the book "Global Woman" by B. Ehrenreich & A. Hochschild.
1,104 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, APA, AU$ 62.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that 'Global Woman' is an eye opening documentation of globalization and its effects on women's lives around the globe. The writer maintains that the horrors detailed in this book are downright disgusting and outrageous at the same time. The writer notes that the book emphasizes that the traditional role of women has been globalized and this is very concerning to the authors and all those opposed to inequality. This book details how this mindset over decades/centuries is sadly still in place even after the American Civil Rights Movement through the 1950s and 1960s. The writer concludes with the feeling that the book gives a vivid description of the effects of globalization on women and the appalling atrocities these women face and live with is a testament to what women are actually capable of despite traditional viewpoints.
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"It seems as though it's just a way of life although it should be frowned upon and discouraged. Throughout the book there are stories of women from third world countries who need to provide for their families by taking maid/nanny positions far from their country/local area. These women are expected to work extremely long hours, usually in bad conditions, with little food, and very low pay if any. Most of these conditions are fostered by the mindset of the employers who feel that the jobs the employee is completing are "only" women's jobs. On top of that the employer realizes that these women are fairly desperate for money and feel they can be easily taken advantage of because they are immigrants. Another problem for these women is a language barrier between them and their employers. The language barrier exists because the women are foreigners, usually to other countries and know little to none of the native language where they are working."
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"Global Women", 2003.
A review of "Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy", a compilation of essays edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild.
1,126 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 63.95
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This paper examines the phenomenon of the globalization of the lives of women around the world and on the communities from which they came. It discusses the sociological and economic reasons for this migration. The paper also discusses the tone and writing style of the book. The author of the paper concludes with a personal opinion on the topic and the book itself.
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"The consequences of globalization on women, and of migrant women on existing social and economic institutions, are vast. Furthermore, the implications of women's migratory labor patterns affect receiving as well as sending countries. In "Love and Gold," Hochschild describes the trend as reflecting traditional, or more recognizable, forms imperialism. "That openly coercive, male-centered imperialism, which persists today, was always paralleled by a quieter imperialism in which women were more central," (26). Now that much of the developing world has already been plundered for its natural resources, female labor remains a vibrant and thriving economic frontier. Service professions, whether legal and legitimate like housekeeping and childcare or illegal and illegitimate like the sex trade, provide a bustling form of trade between first and third world nations."
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Global South Women, 2007.
An analysis of Alison M. Jaggar's article, "Vulnerable Women and Neo-Liberal Globalization: Debt Burdens Undermine Women's Health in the Global South".
923 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 52.95
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This paper discusses the plight of women under neo-liberal globalization as outlined by Alison M. Jaggar's article, "Vulnerable Women and Neo-Liberal Globalization: Debt Burdens Undermine Women's Health in the Global South". It provides a summary description of the article and then looks at the underlying determinants exacerbating the problem of women's health in the developing parts of the world. From there, the paper briefly explores the intermediate and proximate determinants of the global health issue.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Summary Description of Global Health Issue
Underlying Determinants Explaining Why Global South Women Suffer under "Neo-Lib" Globalization
Intermediate Determinants
Proximate Determinants of Why Global South Women Struggle from a Health Standpoint
Conclusion
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"At the proximate level, many women in the global south must deal with the day-to-day reality of being malnourished; to this state of affairs one must also add the poor sanitation and insufficient access to suitable drinking water that one commonly finds in impoverished lands. It is important to also realize that the absence of a meaningful education also means that many of these women are ignorant of what they should be putting into their bodies and what steps they should be taking to secure their own long-term vitality. Just to elaborate on this last point, eating disorders are not merely ubiquitous in developing lands, but have been shown to precipitate troubling health problems in their offspring, as well ("Nutrition and Reproduction in Women," 193-200). This phenomenon thus allows health maladies to be passed on from one generation of young women to the next generation of young women."
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Globalization and Women, 2002.
Discusses the globalization of trade and its effect on women.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 143.95
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This paper will demonstrate that women do play a crucial role in the maintenance of livelihoods, cultural continuity and community cohesiveness. The findings here suggest that women's perspectives need to be integrated into the formulation of new modes of sustainability that would be viable and relevant in the modern world system. It must be recognized that women's empowerment is crucial to effective population policies, which is a fundamental requirement if globalization is to be successful.
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Globalization, Women, and Canadian Immigration, 2006.
A discussion regarding the effect of globalization on human capital.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 100.95
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This paper reviews the effects of globalization, such as changes in the movement of capital, especially human capital, around the world in response to changing economic conditions. Immigration and labor policies will be increasingly affected by globalization. One group that will be especially affected by the positive and negative effects of changes in capital movement will is women.
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Women Workers in a Globalized World, 2002.
Examines globalization and its impact on women laborers in developing countries.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 71.95
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This paper shall use the books "Global Shift: Industrial Change in a Turbulent World" by Peter Dickens and "The Geography of the World Economy" by Paul Knox and John Agnew in order to assess how capital organization in transnational companies have changed over the past twenty- five years and how such changes have created a new international division of labor. A strong emphasis shall be applied to the role of women in the industrial society during this period in order to better clarify the direction and the force of such changes. One outside source shall also be consulted to support this thesis.
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Place of Women in Global City, 2004.
This paper looks at the place of women in the global city.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 38.95
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In this essay, the place of women in the global city is discussed. The writer looks at the changing role of women as globalization evolves. The writer also examines how women need to become involved to demand their rights. The issues of emancipation, rape and decision making are also raised and discussed in this paper.
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"Women's place in the global city has come about primarily because of the reproductive role of women which is seen as more than just reproducing the species but also the reproduction of the culture styles of dress behaviors, relations between adults and children, family cooking styles, domestic labor, roles play, etc. People refer to their homeland as Mother Russia, Mother Ireland and even the whole planet is referred to as Mother Earth. The fertility of Mother Earth has no doubt contributed to the association between collective ... "
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Women in Global Politics, 2006.
A look at the position of woman in global politics and the subsequent place they hold in different nations as a source of political power.
2,778 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 55 sources, APA, AU$ 132.95
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Women have had many barriers toward the pursuit of political office worldwide in the cultures that would have set roles for women and in the balance of family considerations as well. This paper examines how the potential for women pursuing political office has grown exponentially regardless of these factors. It provides an exploration of women's political participation in the world today. It also provides an exploration of individual regions in regard to women's political participation and strategies as well as recommendations, including quotas, toward engaging women in the political processes worldwide.
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A New Wave of Women's Organizations
Invisible Barriers
Silence of Women
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"According to the United Nations, the first country to grant women the right to vote was New Zealand in 1893. The UN continues to state that only twenty-eight women worldwide have been elected as heads of state or government in this century. Women currently would only hold 11.7 percent of the seats in the world's parliaments. The first and currently only equally distributed male and female diplomatic cabinet belonged to Sweden in 1995. The United Nations is not immune to the distortions of men and women within its ranks having only seven women serving amidst a total of 185 of the highest-ranking diplomats. Between the years 1987 and 1996, the percentage of female cabinet ministers worldwide rose from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. "
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Welfare Reform, Women and Globalization, 2001.
The realities behind government statistics for Welfare Reform.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 137.95
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This paper looks at the realities behind the remarkable success story of the U.S. Welfare Reforms. The statistics show huge gains in employment and standard of living, but this paper shows that many of the improvements are temporary and not always correct in real terms i.e. U.S. median wage same as it was 27 years ago. Also discussed are race issues, how it is easier for whites to move out of welfare, whilst for ethnic minorities it can be seen as punitive. The paper contains many governmental figures and independent statistics showing alternative realities.
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?The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 looks like a smashing success: it has successfully reduced welfare rolls by more than half, and cut the number of welfare recipients from 4.6 million to 2.4 million in 1999. Many welfare recipients have left the system. Instead of receiving cash grants, parents had to learn skill sand enter the labor force. They also faced a five-year lifetime limit for welfare assistance.
"But numbers are never simple. The truth is that few are thriving in this new system. The numbers show success, but if one looks beneath the surface to find out if women have truly become self-sufficient, a different story emerges. In many ways, the welfare reform act is a broken promise. Women have not truly received help to access decent jobs, and have not gained economic independence.?
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The Global South and the Global North, 2007.
An analysis of the impact of globalization on the inequality between the global north and the global south.
1,402 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 75.95
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This paper looks at globalization and discusses how it has exacerbated the pre-existing inequalities between the poor global south and the wealthy global north. It illustrates how globalization forces some people (predominantly in the southern regions of the planet) to work while permitting other people (predominantly individuals residing in the global north) to become wealthy.
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"To start with, it is commonly known that powerful multinational corporations in the global north habitually take their manufacturing operations from Europe and/or America and deposit those aforementioned manufacturing operations in global south countries where they can avoid the onerous regulatory regimes, high corporate taxes, and high wage costs they associate with the north. At the same time, the movement of jobs and plants to the south has the unhappy effect of not only costing workers jobs in the north but also of reducing the south to the subordinate position of being "hewers of wood and drawers of water" for multinationals that are looking for cheap human resources that can be utilized in a working environment that is more permissive than the highly-regulated work environments of America and/or Europe. A good example of this phenomenon can be found in the IT sector where skilled U.S. workers are losing jobs to individuals overseas (Sosbe, 4) - presumably because the "cost of doing business" vis-a-vis wage expenses is lower in global south nations which do not have a strong tradition of labor activism or of government involvement in employee-employer relations."
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Globalization and Global Labour Patterns, 2005.
An analysis of the factors leading to globalization and global labour patterns.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 10 sources, AU$ 172.95
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This paper discusses globalization and global labour patterns. The paper argues that in a globalized world corporations are determining the labour conditions in both developed and developing countries. It suggests that the corporations are essentially making cheap, unskilled and flexible labourers.
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"Globalization and Global Labour Patterns Globalization is one of the most controversial issues in politics and economics. In "Note on Terminalogy" David McNally defines globalization as, "The mainstream term for the new world Economy of the past twenty years" (McNally 9). How exactly has the world economy changed? While discussing the political and economic changes that have occurred over the last three decades Teeple explains, A system of highly integrated world trade was an irreversible fact by the end of the 1970s, confirmed and hastened by the new means of transportation and communications, whose increased productivity were transforming the worldwide distribution of products and hence the global conditions for valorization (Teeple 71)."
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Processes of Globalization and Shared Global Culture, 2005.
A discussion on whether the processes of globalization are producing a shared global culture.
2,028 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, APA, AU$ 104.95
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The paper states that it is not complicated to find some globalized places such as airline terminals, international hotels or CNN business news revealing the effects of globalization and its repercussions on our understanding of culture in the modern world. The paper relates that through the growing of global interconnections and the processes of ideas and global goods crossing national borders, cultures fuse across the globe. The paper also discusses the presence of English as an international language, and a homogenization of culture. The paper confirms that, culture is a set of values and practices characterized by its particularity, which nevertheless needs universal criteria as a reference to justify this particularity. It is also crucial to define culture as an "encompassing" concept and to keep in mind that it is difficult to know what is cultural.
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"In addition, a shared global culture is also relevant as a global dissemination of an American or Western culture. Indeed the processes of globalization are providing fuel for a cultural imperialism, that is to say a global culture liable to be a hegemonic culture. Thus the assertion of a shared global culture seems to be linked to what Friedman describes as "the increasing hegemony of particular central cultures, the diffusion of American values, consumers goods and lifestyles" (Friedman, 1994: 195). The diffusion of dominant standard icons and references such as MacDonald's, Coca-Cola leads to think about an obvious Americanization. In a word, cultures are both confronted by a global dominance of the western culture and by the practices of global capitalism. The result is probably a decrease of cultural differences: a process which undeniably worked to the advantage of the USA and others Western nations. A striking example of this tendency of cultural imperialism is the United Nations Educations Scientific and Cultural Organization's call for a "new world information and communication order" and its politics on global culture."
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Globalization and Global Survival, 2005.
This paper discusses the effects and dangers of globalization.
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This article examines the cultural, commercial, political and environmental effects of globalization. The writer then looks at the related challenges and dangers. The writer discusses how the existence of international monopolies together with the third world sweat shops and additional factors endanger global survival. The writer further discusses that globalization's exportation of environmentally and perhaps socially unsustainable Western materialism to populous developing nations such as India and China is also worrying for the future of the planet.
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"Evidence of increasing hegemony by an ever shrinking number of multinational conglomerates is fuelling increasing concern regarding global cultural, commercial, political and environmental effects from such inequitable distribution of power. The creation of international industrial monopolies and massive fortunes of unprecedented size, accompanied as it is by equally massive down-sizing, unemployment, environmental degradation and the exponential increase of Third World sweat shops and child labor, seems to be leading to disaster on a global scale."
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The Impact of Global Telecommunications Improvements on Islamic Women, 1996.
An in-depth and thorough examination of the impact of technology and telecommunications advancements on the Arab world in general and on Islamic women in particular.
23,730 words (approx. 94.9 pages), 73 sources, APA, AU$ 401.95
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This thesis examines the impact of telecommunications improvements on the Islamic people. Specifically, the impact of these improvements on Saudi Arabia, an Arab state, and Iran, a Persian state. Although not "anti-technology" or opposed to modernization, the people in Saudi Arabia and Iran are adapting to telecommunications improvements in a method that is in accordance with their core beliefs. The belief in Islam accounts for the "non-Western" model of implementing telecommunications improvements for the citizens of these two countries.
The underpinning of this thesis is that telecommunications improvements will impact the Islamic world no less than any other region of the world experiencing the same improvements. In the case of Saudi Arabia, the CDLR(Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights) is an influential organization using facsimile machines to impact the domestic political environment. Iran, growing as fast in telephone line installations and satellite services as their economic peers, is moving towards privatization in telecommunication systems. Furthermore, Iran is using its capabilities to influence Central Asian neighbors and spread their Shi'i Islam belief.
With the growth and availability of telecommunications services, it is inevitable that current technology will allow unique opportunities to gain and disseminate information. The international community is unlikely to find a viable method to control the proliferation of telecommunications around the globe. Therefore, each society or nation is its own regulator of improving telecommunications systems. Each society, to include the Islamic people, must rely on their culture to determine the degree telecommunications will penetrate the fabric of their society.
Table of contents
List of Tables and Charts
Introduction
Literature Review
Social and Cultural Structures of Islam
Muhhammad: The Messenger
Islamic Cultures-Revolutionary Aspects
The Historical Influence of the West
Information Infrastructures
Electronically Influencing the Globe
Regulation in an Information World
Cultural and Societal Considerations of
Accessible Information
Images of the Middle East Through Western
Media
Saudi Arabia: Modernization and Adaptation for an Arab State
The Peninsula Prior to the Nineteenth Century
Oil Wealth: Modernizing Saudi Arabia
The Gulf War and Fundamentalism
Post Gulf War Islamist Movement
Telecommunication Trends in Saudi Arabia
Iran: An Islamic Republic and Communication Improvements
Shi'i Islam
Modernization and the Influence of the West
Current Telecommunication Trends in the Islamic Republic
Conclusion
Bibliography
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"Ranging from the dynamic to the mundane, the improvement of global information systems crosses cultures, languages, and generations. With the information communication sector growing at twice the rate of the rest of the economy, the globalization of information infrastructures has just begun. The global distribution of telephone circuitry, although not as prevalent as television sets, constitutes the largest interconnected global public communications network. Furthermore, the telephone companies, while at the forefront of media providers, are at the leading edge of the digitalization process as a result of experience in providing service and maintenance communication systems to millions of customers."
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Women In Thailand, 2004.
This paper discusses the impact of globalization on the women of Thailand
6,780 words (approx. 27.1 pages), 35 sources, AU$ 218.95
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The impact of globalization on the women of Thailand is examined in this article. In this paper, the analysis presents an overview of Thailand's economic growth. The writer also discusses the impact of that growth on the social and political structures. Further, the writer looks at the roles of women in the context of such change.
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Women and the Religious Experience, 2005.
A discussion regarding the global study of women and religion.
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This essay reviews how five anthropologists examine the role of women in religion and ritual in settings ranging from Ireland and Iran, to Somalia, Melanesia and Belgium.
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"In the early 21st century, when Western secularism is challenged by religious revivals in the form of Protestant evangelicalism in the United States and Islamic traditionalism and/or fundamentalism around the world, the topic of religion and ritual has become one of clear significance to anthropologists. Given the range of complexity of religious traditions and experiences, one of the most interesting avenues of access to understanding religion in a comparative anthropological analysis is through exploring the roles of women in different religions."
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