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The issue of gender and globalization has received increasing attention in recent years, as courses, books and articles have proliferated. But most of the literature on globalization continues to be androcentric, ignoring the centrality of women to the economic restructuring of the years since the mid-1970s. Even excellent, invaluable texts from a left perspective like those by William K.

The socialist project is intrinsically bound up with the feminist project-just as it is with anti-racism-in a number of ways. Perhaps most fundamental is a philosophical commitment to the notion of human equality, understood as the rejection of hierarchical distinctions between categories of people.