Contains critiques on the notion of empowerment of women by seventeen international scholars. This volume considers opportunities for women in the context of globalization, resurgent nationalism and politicized religion, cultures of masculinity, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Afri…
In this update of her 1997 ethnography, the author traces changes that have taken place in the service sector of Hong Kong's workforce since its reunification with mainland China in that year. Argues that though the influx of foreign domestic workers has risen dramatically and t…
