IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2011-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/655912

Beth Kangas

引用次数: 28

"We don't forget the old rice pot when we get the new one": discourses on ideals and practices of women in contemporary Cambodia. “有新锅不忘旧锅”:当代柬埔寨女性的理想与实践话语。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2011-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/655915

Katherine Brickell

引用次数: 56

The biopower of beauty: humanitarian imperialisms and global feminisms in an age of terror. 美丽的生命力量:恐怖时代的人道主义帝国主义和全球女权主义。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2011-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/655914

Mimi Thi Nguyen

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引用次数: 83

Surgeon and Safari: producing valuable bodies in Johannesburg. 外科医生和狩猎:在约翰内斯堡生产有价值的尸体。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2011-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/655941

Andrew Mazzaschi

引用次数: 25

Medical tourism in the backcountry: alternative health and healing in the Arkansas Ozarks. 偏远地区的医疗旅游:阿肯色州奥扎克地区的另类健康和治疗。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2011-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/655911

Justin M Nolan, Mary Jo Schneider

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引用次数: 10

The global household: toward a feminist postcapitalist international political economy. 全球家庭：走向女权主义后资本主义国际政治经济学》。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2010-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/652913

Maliha Safri, Julie Graham

{"title":"The global household: toward a feminist postcapitalist international political economy.","authors":"Maliha Safri, Julie Graham","doi":"10.1086/652913","DOIUrl":"10.1086/652913","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this article is to introduce a new category into international political economy-the global household-and to begin to widen the focus of international political economy to include nonmarket transactions and noncapitalist production. As an economic institution composed of transnational extended families and codwellers (including international migrants and family members left behind in countries of origin), the global household is engaged in coordinating international migration, sending and receiving billions of dollars in remittances, and organizing and conducting market- and non-market-oriented production on an international scale. We first trace the discursive antecedents of the global household concept to theories of the household as a site of noncapitalist production and to feminist ethnographies of transnational families. In order to demonstrate the potential significance and effect of this newly recognized institution, we estimate the aggregate population of global households, the size and distribution of remittances, and the magnitude and sectoral scope of global household production. We then examine the implications of the global household concept for three areas of inquiry: globalization, economic development, and the household politics of economic transformation. Finally, we briefly explore the possibilities for research and activism opened up by a feminist, postcapitalist international political economy centered on the global household.","PeriodicalId":51382,"journal":{"name":"Signs","volume":"36 1","pages":"99-126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10450167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Can We Talk? Feminist Economists in Dialogue with Social Theorists 我们能谈谈吗?女性主义经济学家与社会理论家的对话

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2006-06-01 DOI: 10.1086/500599

J. Nelson

引用次数: 30

Sexual politics in Comte and Durkheim: feminism, history, and the French sociological tradition. 孔德与迪尔凯姆的性政治:女权主义、历史与法国社会学传统。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2001-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/495678

J E Pedersen

引用次数: 16

Transgressing the nation-state: the partial citizenship and "imagined (global) community" of migrant Filipina domestic workers. 超越民族国家:菲律宾移民家政工人的部分公民权和“想象的(全球)社区”。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2001-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/495650

R S Parrenas

引用次数: 30

Constructing global feminism: transnational advocacy networks and Russian women's activism. 构建全球女权主义:跨国倡导网络与俄罗斯妇女行动主义。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Signs Pub Date : 2001-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/495651

V Sperling, M M Ferree, B Risman

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引用次数: 128

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