 Gender in global restructuringAnne Sisson Runyan Chapter 43 in Handbook on Gender in World Politics, 2026, pp 288-295 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: This chapter traces feminist analyses of economic development and globalization, arguing for “global restructuring” as a more apt framework. Early feminist critiques challenged macro-level globalization theories for ignoring women's agency, their masculinist assumptions and the uneven, gendered nature of economic change. The concept of global restructuring(s) better captures these complexities, focusing on the co-constitutive relationship between production and reproduction, the global and the intimate, and the intersecting power dynamics of gender, race, sexuality, class and nation. The analysis explores the contradictory forces within this restructuring, from the neoliberal co-optation of feminism to the rise of anti-gender illiberal populism. However, it also highlights how profound crises—financial, pandemic, climate and democratic—have spurred feminist resistance. This resistance includes movements for economic and social justice and the development of alternative frameworks like care, green and solidarity economies, offering transformative possibilities for a more just and sustainable global order. Keywords: Global Restructuring; Feminist IPE; Neoliberalism; Social Reproduction; Care Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:21594_43 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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