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cape verdean women and globalization the politics of gender culture and resistance
p offering valuable insights into social science methodology and practice cape verde womenand globalization employs critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to explore what cape verdeans have to say about womens lives in the era of twenty first century globalization . the authors investigate the economic and personal difficulties they face such as poverty managing single mother headed households and violence . they also examine the ways women resist the challenges globalization has brought to them especially through cultural expressions of batuku dancing and creole language . using the framework of patricia hill collins intersectionality theory cape verde womenand globalization concludes that scholars need to make central the links among the concepts of oppression resistance culture and gender in order to see the lives of women and especially in order to identify the bridges to political change . each chapter also includes a reflections on methods section to reveal the journey the authors took in undertaking this project from its earliest conceptualization to their conclusions .
hardcover palgrave macmillan 2009 isbn13 9780230618084 isbn10 0230618081
abridged n isbn 13 9780230618084 number in series 1 number of pages 196 publisher palgrave macmillan release date 1254182400000