Women ReinventingGlobalisation
Edited by Joanna Kerr and aroline Sweetman
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Editorial 3
Joanna Kerr and aroline
Sweetman
I The economics of globalisation
Gender budgets and beyond: feminist fiscal policy in the context of globalisation 15
Nilufer
agatay
Feminist responses to economic globalisation: some examples of past and future practice 25
Ruth
Pearson
Counting for something Recognising women's contribution to the global economythrough alternative accounting systems 35
Marilyn Waring
African women challenging neo-liberal economic orthodoxy: the conception andmission of the GERA programme 44
Zo
Randriamaro
In search of an alternative development paradigm: feminist proposals from LatinAmerica 52
Members
of
the
Feminist Initiative of Cartagena
If I were Minister of Finance...: gaining understanding of financial crisis through asimulation workshop 59
Mehrene
Larudee
and
aren
Grown
II Globalisation as politics
Fundamentalisms, globalisation, and women's human rights in Senegal 69
Fatou Sow
A daring proposal: campaigning for an inter-American convention on sexual rights andreproductive rights 77
Valeria Pandjiarjian
Free markets and state control: a feminist challenge to Davos Man and Big Brother 82
Mona Danner and Gay Young
Using the master's tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women 91
Sanya
Sarnavka
III Specific issues of global concern
Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millenniumdevelopment goals 97
Lynn
Freedman
HIV/AIDS, globalisation and the international women's movement 109
Sisonke
Msimang
New genetic technologies and their impact on women: a feminist perspective 114
Lisa Handwerker
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