Women and Globalization: Victims, Sites of Resistance and New World Views

This article examines the consequences of globalization in the lives of women. The author explains the ways in which women, particularly poor women, are victims of globalization and shows how this process has its roots in more than 500 years of Western colonization. The article demonstrates how wome...

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Main Author: Ruether, Rosemary Radford 1936-2022 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2005
In: Feminist theology
Year: 2005, Volume: 13, Issue: 3, Pages: 361-372
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Summary:This article examines the consequences of globalization in the lives of women. The author explains the ways in which women, particularly poor women, are victims of globalization and shows how this process has its roots in more than 500 years of Western colonization. The article demonstrates how women’s groups have become important sites of resistance to globalization and how they have also developed different worldviews and ideas of the sacred.
ISSN:1745-5189
Contains:Enthalten in: Feminist theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0966735005054918