Women's voices and experiences from around the world are brought to bear upon issues of globalization and democratization in this volume of strikingly original and diverse essays. From the Comfort Women of Japan to the Mexican maquiladoras, from the debt burdened nations of Africa to the 'new settler societies' of Oceania, the impact of globalizing forces and uneven democratization yields gender dislocations everywhere. This volume charts these trends with original research, first-hand interviews and surveys, and fresh theoretical perspectives. Gender regime change may be built on the understandings begun here.

Rita Mae Kelly was dean of the Social Sciences at the University of Texas, Dallas, at Richardson, and author of many books includingAdvances in Policy Studies Since 1950 andThe Gendered Economy.Jane H. Bayes is professor of political science at the California State University in Northridge.Mary E. Hawkesworth is professor of political science and director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.Brigitte Young is professor of political economy at Freie Universitat in Berlin, Germany.

Chapter 1 Globalization, Democratization, and Gender RegimesChapter 2 Gender, Globalization and Democratization: Some Lessons from OceaniaChapter 3 Globalization and Gender: A European PerspectiveChapter 4 Gender and Social Implications of Globalization: An African PerspectiveChapter 5 Mexico/ U. S. Migration and Gender Relations: The Guanajuatense Community in Mexico and the United StatesChapter 6 Globalization and Asian Indian Immigrant Women in the United StatesChapter 7 Income Control and Hosehold Work-SharingChapter 8 Japan and the Global Sex IndustryChapter 9 Political Spaces, Gender, and NAFTAChapter 10 Democratization and Gender Politics in South KoreaChapter 11 Transforming Governance Agendas: Insights from Grassroots Initiatives in Local Governments in Two Districts of IndiaChapter 12 Engendering the Japanese "Double Standard" Patriarchal Democracy: The Case of the "Comfort Women" and Military Sexual SlaveryChapter 13 Democratization: Reflections on Gendered Dislocations in the Public SphereChapter 14 References