Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2-22-2019

Publication Title

Handbook of Research on Gender and Marketing

Pages

45-62

Publisher Name

Edward Elgar Publishing

Publisher Location

Cheltenham, UK

Abstract

Much of the prior scholarly research on global gender and marketing tends to focus on development. The post-socialist space does not fit neatly into this paradigm, given the diversity of its legacy of ideology, industrialization, feminist thought, and the post-socialist experience of privatization, democratization, European Union expansion, and, in some cases, war. This chapter uses the history of feminist thought in Yugoslavia and Croatia to highlight the contribution the post-socialist space brings to global gender and marketing research: questioning the role of the state in securing rights and questioning assumptions about individualism in a neoliberal era. I argue for an extension of the current perspective on researching global gender and marketing that continues its social justice focus and includes a transnational approach, which allows for future research that attends to the differences among women in global regions, acknowledges the diversity of experiences of oppression, and gives voice to local feminist thought and activism.

Identifier

ISBN: 978 1 78811 537 7

Comments

Author Posting. © Edward Elgar Publishing 2019. This chapter is posted here by permission of Edward Elgar Publishing for personal use, not for redistribution. The chapter was published in the Handbook of Research on Gender and Marketing, 2019, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788115384.00008

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