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2005 "Women & Globalization" Conference Papers

Muchísmas gracias a nuestros traductores / Many, many thanks to our translators - Minerva Grajeda, Mario Patricio, Grecia Pinto, Ivette Rossano, Silviana Garetz, Joan Jurado-Blanco (Babels coordinadoras Leda Beck y Jackie Mosio), Sara Fasy, Kendal Butler, Otto and Sarah Begus, Daysi Lugones, Isaias Rivera, Silvia Stea, Rosario Unaga, Mara Tubert, Florencio Noceti, Raul Rodríguez, Pedro Aragonés, Ida Marie Ayala, Luis Borges, Evan Joiner

Ally, Shireen University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa	Caring about Care Workers: Organising in the Female Shadow of Globalisation
Anderson, Jeanine Catholic University of Peru	Urban poverty reborn: a gender and generational analysis
Angulo, Yolanda Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Women’s Body: Between “Burreras” and Maquiladora Workers
Aubrey, Carol U.S.	Community Builder Workshop: The New Face of Power- Daring to Build the Co-Creative Community
Benjamin, Saranel Centre for Civil Society, South Africa	The Feminization of Poverty in Post-Apartheid South Africa: a story told by the women of Bayview, Chatsworth
Burnham, Linda Women of Color Resource Center, Oakland, CA, US	Globalization Hits Home
Chávez, Lilian University of Houston, US	Solidarity for the Birds of Passage
Cross, Cecilia and Florencia Partenio Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Argentina	The Construction and Meaning of Women’s Spaces in Organizations for the Unemployed
Cuesta, Esther University of Massachusetts, U.S.	“We Are Better off Outside Our Country”: Diasporic Ecuadorian Women in Spain since the Mid-1990s
Cunha, Margaret University of Massachusetts, U.S.	South African Politics, Inequalities, and HIV/AIDS: Applications for Public Health Education
Davila Poblete, Sonia Mexico	Demystifying the Water Crisis to Make Women’s Participation More Visible
EZLN Mexico	The Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle
Federici, Sylvia Hofstra University, New York, U.S.	Notes on "Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation"
Ferguson, Ann University of Massachusetts / Amherst, U.S.	Cowboy Masculinity, Globalization and the US War on Terror
Fonow, Mary Margaret Arizona State University, U.S. and Suzanne Franzway University of South Australia	Global Union Networks, Feminism, and Transnational Labor Solidarity
Frederickson, Mary E. Miami University of Ohio, U.S.	A Place to Speak Our Minds: Locating Women’s Activism Where North Meets South
Freytes Frey, Ada y Karina Crivelli Universidad del Salvador y Universidad de Buenos Aires	Women's participation in Argentina's picketing movement: accomplishments and limitations of the redefinition of feminine roles
Funk, Nanette Brooklyn College; Network of East- West Women, U.S.	Women’s NGOs in East and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: The Imperialist Criticism
Gandy, Ross Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico	MOBILIZING LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN FOR THE FIGHTBACK AGAINST GLOBALIZED OPPRESSION: The Role of Religion in Mexico
García, Martha El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, México and Zárate-Hoyos, Germán A. State University of New York at Cortland, U.S.	*Nahua* women in Alto Balsas, Mexico : Administering and Generating Remittances for Human Development
García Aguilar, Ma. del Carmen Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México	From Difference to Holism
García Vences, Delia Esperanza Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México	Poor Women as Heads of Households in Mexico
Gonçalves Honório, Renata MST, Brazil	Impacts of neoliberal globalization policies on agrarian reform settlements and the resistance of the women of the MST to these policies
Gupta, Kiran Soni India	Impact of Globalization & Liberalization on Women’s Health in India- Future Strategies
Henrici, Jane University of Memphis, U.S.	Gender and Free Trade: Peruvian Alternative Trade Organizations and Women's Projects
Hryciuk, Renata Ewa Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland	Political Motherhood in Poland: The Emergence of Single – Mothers for the Alimony Fund Movement
Jeffries, Fiona Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C.	Women out of Bounds: mobilizing resistance to the global enclosures in “the factory on wheels”
Jimoh, Rufai Nigeria	FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: Violation of Women's Human Rights in Nigeria
Kahn, Mahruq and Lauren Langman Loyola University Chicago	Dominations Old and New: Subjugation and Agency in SE Asian Women
Kozma, Alyson Amnesty International	Intolerable Killings: Ten years of abductions and murders in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua
Larcom, Barbara Nicaragua Network, U.S.	“We Have Other Plans:" Communities Implement Alternative Development
Lee, B. Lara UNC Greensboro	Women on the Margins (Borders): Passage to Center through Education
Lindio-McGovern, Ligaya Indiana University, U.S.	Neo-Liberal Globalization in the Philippines: Its Impact on Filipino Women and Their Forms of Resistance
Lomelí Curiel, Elisa and Karina Ochoa Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico	Women of Calakmul
López Díaz, Nancy University of Havana, Cuba	Economic Rights and Women’s Legal Standing in the Workplace
Lungren, Lisa and Audrey Trigg Center for Global Justice Interns	Weaving for Survival: Mujeres Productoras de Cienegilla
Lugones, Daysi María Cuba	Medicalization: A Subtle Form of the Exploitation of Women
Mann, Bonnie University of Oregon, U.S.	How America Justifies its War: A Feminist Reading of “Shock and Awe”
Marcos, Silvia Mexico	Decolonizing Feminism: the Indigenous Women’s Movement in Mexico
Martinot, Steve San Francisco State University, U.S.	Motherhood, Racialization, and the State
Mattingly, Doreen J. San Diego State University, U.S.	Indian Call Centers: The Outsourcing of “Good Jobs” for Women?
Maurer, Serena University of Washington, U.S.	National and Transnational logics in the Yakima borderlands
McLaren, Margaret A. Rollins College, U.S.	Women’s Rights in A Global Context
Olabode, Bashir University of Ibadan, Nigeria	Compounding Women's Problems: South-North Migration as a Means of Escaping Poverty in Africa, Nigeria as a Case Study
Oyagbola, Halima Nigeria	HUMAN TRAFFICKING: The Nigerian Woman an Endangered Species
Pacheco, Lourdes C Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit	I Came Because They Told Me My Son Was Lost: Migration of Wirrárika Women from Eastern Mexico to the Northern Border and the U.S.
Polakoff, Erica Bloomfield College , NJ, U.S.	The Globalized Family: Both Sides of the Border
Presbey, Gail University of Detroit Mercy, U.S.	SIMONE WEIL ON LABOR: Her Insights Applied to Current Sweatshop Labor
Rivage-Seul, Peggy Berea College, U.S.	Feminist Frameworks for Women in the Global Economy
Sánchez González, María Consuelo Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Mexico	Gender and natural resources: Maya women and the Agrarian Land Reform in Mexico
Sokoloff, Natalie J. City University of New York, U.S.	Domestic Violence at the Crossroads: Violence Against Poor Women and Women of Color
Tessier, Stacy University of South Florida, U.S.	The Global Food Chain – Farmworkers and Fast Food
Targ, Harry & Dena Purdue University David Cormier West Virginia University	Precarious Classes, Neo-liberal Globalization and Older Women
Valdes Estrella, Mercedes University of Havana, Cuba	The Feminization of Poverty: A Global Problem
Vasallo, Norma University of Havana, Cuba	What do women hope for from globalization?
Vilches, Nimfa Cuesta Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Branch 48, Manila, Phillipines	Trafficking In Women and Children
Yazali, Josephine India	GLOBALISATION AND GENDER: How to move towards gender equality
Zapata Galindo , Martha Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany	THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT IN MEXICO: From Self-Awareness Groups to Transnational Networks

FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION:
Violation of Women's Human Rights in Nigeria

Dominations Old and New: Subjugation and Agency in SE Asian Women

Intolerable Killings: Ten years of abductions and murders in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua

Compounding Women's Problems: South-North Migration as a Means of Escaping Poverty in Africa, Nigeria as a Case Study

I Came Because They Told Me My Son Was Lost: Migration of Wirrárika Women from Eastern Mexico to the Northern Border and the U.S.

Feminist Frameworks for Women in the Global Economy

Gender and natural resources: Maya women and the Agrarian Land Reform in Mexico

Domestic Violence at the Crossroads: Violence Against Poor Women and Women of Color