Research Catalog

Title

The gender effect : capitalism, feminism, and the corporate politics of development / Kathryn Moeller.

Author

Moeller, Kathryn

Publication

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Details

Description

xxiii, 292 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"How and why are U.S. transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate profit? 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. 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 structural conditions that produce poverty. These practices, in turn, enable corporations to expand their legitimacy, authority, and reach while sidestepping contradictions in their business practices that often exacerbate conditions of vulnerability for girls and women. With a keen eye towards justice, author Kathryn Moeller concludes that these corporatized development practices de-politicize girls' and women's demands for fair labor practices and a just global economy."--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Young women > Services for
• Poor girls > Services for > Developing countries
• Developing countries
• Corporate image > Management
• Nike (Firm)
• Corporations > Charitable contributions > Case studies
• Case studies
• Young women > Services for > Developing countries
• Girl Effect (Organization)

Genre/Form

Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-282) and index.

Contents

Introduction : corporatized development -- The girl effect as apparatus -- The historical rise of the girl effect -- The spectacle of empowering girls and women -- Searching for third world potential -- Proving the girl effect -- Negotiating corporatized development -- Conclusion : accelerating and freeing the girl effect.

Call Number

JFE 18-9598

ISBN

• 9780520286382
• 0520286383
• 9780520286399
• 0520286391

LCCN

• 2017027256
• 40027983290
• 99976147170

OCLC

981118213

Author

Moeller, Kathryn, author.

Title

The gender effect : capitalism, feminism, and the corporate politics of development / Kathryn Moeller.

Publisher

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-282) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Moeller, Kathryn. Girl Effect. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520961623 (DLC) 2017033180

Other Standard Identifier

40027983290

99976147170

Research Call Number

JFE 18-9598