Description

Corporate globalization has intensified in recent years, taking a terrible toll on the lives of ordinary women in the global North and South. The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Armed Repression, and Women’s Poverty investigates the related processes of neoliberal economic restructuring and increased militarization, tracking policy and its enforcement to its impact on low-income women. This interdisciplinary volume provides rich analyses of the oppressive working and living conditions of urban and rural women, rightward shifts in public policies, and women’s resistance to these developments.

Author Info

Amalia L. Cabezas is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her research interests include sex tourism, women’s human rights, the politics of gender, health, and women’s labor.

Ellen Reese is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on the politics of welfare in the United States, past and present. She is author of Backlash against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present (University of California Press, 2005). She is currently writing a second book, They Say Cutback, We Say Fight Back! Welfare Rights Activism in an Era of Retrenchment, which examines efforts by low-income people and their allies to resist welfare cutbacks and shape the implementation of welfare reform.

Marguerite Waller is Professor of Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside. She has published extensively on constructions of gender and sexuality in literature (Dante, Petrarch, Shakespeare) and visual culture (Italian cinema, virtual reality, U.S./Mexico border art). She is coeditor with Jennifer Rycenga of Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistance (Routledge 2001), with Frank Burke of Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives, (University of Toronto 2002), with Sylvia Marcos of Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization, (Palgrave 2005), and with Amalia Cabezas and Ellen Reese of a special issue of the journal Social Identities entitled "Emergent Subjects of Neoliberal Global Capitalism" (Vol. 12, No. 5, September 2006).