Is Local: Global As Feminine: Masculine Summary
The article “Is Local: Global as Feminine: Masculine? Rethinking the Gender of Globalization” by Carla Freeman discusses the issue of gender categories of local and global and the author argues that we should not limit our perception of globalization as exclusively masculine.
At the beginning the author outlines that the globalization theory was traditionally defined as "masculine" making it clear that the author did not define it as “masculine” by themselves. The author says that the "global processes enact on local ground". Therefore, "masculine" globalization is based on "feminine" local development. The binary perception towards globalization excludes the relation between local and global and makes them seem mutually exclusive, while it
At the beginning the author outlines that the globalization theory was traditionally defined as "masculine" making it clear that the author did not define it as “masculine” by themselves. The author says that the "global processes enact on local ground". Therefore, "masculine" globalization is based on "feminine" local development. The binary perception towards globalization excludes the relation between local and global and makes them seem mutually exclusive, while it