Gender Effect - Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of DevelopmentPaperback
Gender Effect - Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of DevelopmentPaperback How and why are U.S. Is it a solution to ending poverty? transnational corporations investing in the lives,…
Specifikacia Gender Effect - Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of DevelopmentPaperback
Gender Effect - Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of DevelopmentPaperback
How and why are U.S. Is it a solution to ending poverty? transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South?
Drawing on more than a decade of research in the United States and Brazil, this book focuses on how the philanthropic, social responsibility, and business practices of various corporations use a logic of development that positions girls and women as instruments of poverty alleviation and new frontiers for capitalist accumulation. Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate profit? Using the Girl Effect, the philanthropic brand of Nike, Inc., as a central case study, the book examines how these corporations seek to address the problems of gendered poverty and inequality, yet do so using an instrumental logic that shifts the burden of development onto girls and women without transforming the