Introduction -- The increasing financialisation of everything? -- Financialisation: how and why is it happening? -- The relationship between the virtual and the material -- Frontiers of accumulation and ecology -- Illicit financial flows and exemptions from sovereignty -- The financialisation of...

The UN Conference of Women, held in Beijing in 1995, provided a forum for the exploration of current feminist topics. This volume presents papers from that conference, discussing in detail issues in gender studies and development, from rural and urban poverty to population and family planning....