4242 - Gender and the Crises of Global Capitalism

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

How have the ongoing crises in capitalism affected relations of gender worldwide? Within the present regime of globalized financialized capitalism manufacturing has been relocated to low-wage regions and many of the jobs have simply disappeared because of automation. The new regime has both recruited women into the paid workforce (particularly into the service and informal economies), and promoted state and corporate disinvestment from social welfare. Globally, girls and women in the global south are considered privileged objects of desire for nonprofit “investors.” Poor men are coded as waste, too “difficult” or “unreliable” for the privilege of exploitation. At the same time, in the upper echelons of financial capitalism, elite men continue to predominate. For this panel we seek papers that explore the emerging contours of either masculinity or femininity in relation to global capitalism.

Sub Unit

• Section on Global and Transnational Sociology / Gender and the Crises of Global Capitalism

Session Organizers

• Jordanna Chris Matlon, American University

• Julian Go, Boston University

Presider

• Mariana Manriquez, University of Arizona

Individual Presentations

• Dilemma of the Foxconn Moms: Gender, Migrant Labor, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in China - Yige Dong, Johns Hopkins University

• Forgotten Boys, Idle Men: Using Gender to Talk about Poverty in Kenya - Isabel Pike, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• From the Proletariat to the Precariat: Transformations in Masculinities in the the Neoliberal Period in Mexico. - Mariana Manriquez, University of Arizona

• Outsourcing Feminism: Hegemonic Femininity and the Symbolic Politics of Supply Chains - Eileen M. Otis, University of Oregon; Larissa Petrucci, University of Oregon