Challenging the simplistic story by which feminism has become complicit in neoliberalism, this book traces the course of globalization of women’s economic empowerment from the Global South to the Global North and critically examines the practice of empowering low-income women, primarily...

Introduction -- Speaking as working women and working as speaking women -- Arguing with the phallus, or the materialization of the psyche -- Visualities and materialities: the performativity of the female -- Managerial suit or writing about the visual chastity belt -- Intersectionality,...

„"It’s a Man’s World": Ob Sicherheitsgurte in Autos, die Dosierung von Medikamenten oder die Raumtemperatur: Viele Facetten unserer Umwelt wurden von Männern für Männer geschaffen. Frauen frieren deshalb am Arbeitsplatz oder sterben mit höherer Wahrscheinlichkeit an einem Herzinfarkt....