Women, Democracy, and Globalization in North America

JANE BAYES is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of Gender, Globalization and Democracy at California State University, USA. She is author/editor of six books including Gender, Globalization and Democratization (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001) and Globalization, Gender, and Religion (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001).PATRICIA BEGNÉ is a Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Guanajuato in Guanajuato, México, where she has taught since 1980. She has also practiced law and serves as a consultant to law firms in the U.S. Her publications include MujereS. (2004) and Women and Law in the State of Guanajuato (2003).LAURA GONZALEZ is currently the Director of the University of Texas at Dallas Angel Palerm Field Station based in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, USA. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Anthropology both at the University of Texas at Dallas and at Mountain View Community College, a campus of the Dallas Community College District. Her publications include Respuesta Campesina a la Revolución Verde en el Bajío [Peasant Response to the Green Revolution in the Bajío Region] (1992) and Political Brokers, Ejidos, and State Resources in Guanajuato, Mexico (1996), both published by the Social Science Research Centre at the Universidad de Guanajuato.LOIS HARDER is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton,Canada. She has written extensively on women and politics in Canada, including the book State of Struggle: Feminism and Politics in Alberta (2003). Her current research focuses on welfare reform in Canada and the United States.

"Women, Democracy, and Globalization skillfully juxtaposes the remarkably different gendered experiences with globalization in North America. By exploring the complex ideas about gender and social change, it embarks upon what should become a focus for future analysis in the 21st century - how to bring about social justice in an age of globalization - and provides a unique resource for those interested in the gendered struggle for democracy through historical and contemporary times. These complex stories of globalization will be essential reading in all courses on globalization." - Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Professor of Political Science and Women 's Studies and Chair of Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University 'The international contributors to Women, Democracy, and Globalization in North America have produced an ambitious book that compares the history of women's political participation and the impact of globalization in three very different countries united by their participation in the North American Free Trade Area. The early chapters provide historical background, and the second half focuses on the economic effects of globalization in each country, emphasizing the feminization of the labor force and growing inequalities. The authors point out the striking fact that, in many respects, Canada and Mexico have far more gender democracy than the United States; their 'feminist frame' questions whether globalization is undermining the liberatory promises of democracy, especially for women' - Jane Jaquette, Occidental College

• PART I: CANADA Women in the Canadian Political Economy; L.Harder Gender and Globalization: National and Transnational Challenges in Canada; L.Macdonald PART II: MEXICO Women in the Mexican Political Economy; P.Begne Gender and Globalization: National and Transnational Challenges in Mexico; L.Gonzalez PART III: THE UNITED STATES Women in the Political Economy in the United States; M.Hawkesworth Gender and Globalization: National and Transnational Challenges in the United States; J.Bayes