Cape Verdean Women and Globalization: The Politics of Gender, Culture, and Resistance

This book employs critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to explore what Cape Verdeans have to say about women's 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.

Author: K. Carter, J. Aulette
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/18/2009
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780230618084

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/20/2009 pg. 22

About the Author
KATHERINE CARTER is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Kurdistan-Hawler, Northern Iraq. JUDY AULETTE is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of North Carolina, USA.