Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico's Global Factories / Edition 1

by Leslie Salzinger

Overview

In this engrossing and original book, Leslie Salzinger takes us with her into the gendered world of Mexico's global factories. Her careful ethnographic work, personal voice, and sophisticated analysis capture the feel of life inside the maquiladoras and make a compelling case that transnational production is a gendered process. The research grounds contemporary feminist theory in an examination of daily practices and provides an important new perspective on globalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520235397
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	04/03/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Leslie Salzinger is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

I. Ways of Seeing
2. Producing Women: Femininity on the Line
3. Trope Chasing: Making a Local Labor Market
4. Bringing Fantasies to Life: Panoptimex
5. Re-forming the "Traditional Mexican Woman": Particimex
6. Manufacturing "Workers": Andromex
7. Gendered Meanings in Contention: Anarchomex
8. Why Femininity(ies)?

Notes
References
Index