GGR320H1 Final: Exam study guide
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1. global care chain: (manalansan) structured relationships formed through the flow and displacement of the maternal affect (paper dolls film) everyday struggles of gay domestics. Women torn away from their biological families and forced to leave their own children in the care for her employer of poorer women in the homeland. Third world women take on the burden of first world women"s liberation from domesticity. Causes a care drain global domestic labour siphons off affection energies away from poorer countries leaving them wifeless and motherless. Care chain is the female underbelly of globalization. Global inequalities in wages rich richer, poor poorer. Structural adjustment programs leave inhabitants with a strong incentive to work in more fortunate parts of the world (manalansan) domestic = heterosexual woman = care and love, consequences for understanding gender and therefore requires a queering. Globalization, women are on the move, female labour movement (david harvey): time space compression: inequality of globalization - uneven.
