Paper Summary:

This paper examines how empirical research has revealed that there are winners and losers in the global system and how abstract feminist theories based on empirical research maintain that women in general are the losers. This paper analyses mainstream global political economy (GPE) theories especially in regard to economic development (Structural Adjustment Policies (SAP), flexibilisation, employment and how the theory and reality are questioned by feminists. It also assesses the UN's 'gender agenda' and gender mainstreaming within the context of feminist critiques.
Outline
Mainstream GPE Theories
Economic Development
Structural Adjustment Policies (SAP)
Flexibilisation
Employment
Gender Agenda: Gender Mainstreaming in the UN
Conclusion

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"In radical feminist theory, theory and practice are not separate but are 'rather in a constant and dialectical relationship with each other. Experience leads to the refinement of theory, which itself feeds back into experience, and so on and so on.' Theory should be pragmatic, practical and everyday; political change is effected through personal change. Early feminists criticised realist and liberal economic doctrines as state centric; women's experience was ignored, and where noted, was distorted. "

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