From an Issue-based to a Globalized Frame for Addressing Women's Grievances: Possibilities for Social Change?

Author

Kristen Lea VanHooreweghe, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Date of Award

8-2005

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Major

Sociology

Major Professor

Sherry Cable

Committee Members

Harry Dahms, John Gulick

Abstract

Women throughout the world disproportionately absorb the social and environmental costs of globalization. Globalization, therefore, works more often to inhibit, than to promote, women’s needs necessary for survival. Using a materialist feminist perspective, I examine the harmful effects of globalization on women’s production, reproduction, and engagement with the environment and offer a comprehensive frame for addressing women’s associated grievances. I then offer brief vignettes of two contemporary feminist organizations to evaluate the possibility of a cross-cultural and widespread movement of women for social change.

Recommended Citation

VanHooreweghe, Kristen Lea, "From an Issue-based to a Globalized Frame for Addressing Women's Grievances: Possibilities for Social Change?. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2005.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/4591