Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: A Multicentric World Order
The neoliberal feminist "cover story"
Theorizing a gendered, multicentric world order
The past and present of neoliberalism's gender order
2 Neoliberalism's Pre-histories
The American "liberal" deal: modernity through economic opportunity for White families
The Soviet Union's deal with women: "Build socialism alongside men"
India: forging indigenous nationalism between capitalism and socialism
Conclusion
3 Investing in "Empowered" Women

The era of competing ideologies: postcoloniality, modernization, and communism during the Cold War
Empowerment discourse: a brief genealogy
Women's empowerment
Education for all
American theories of social work
Human capital tames empowerment
Freire's radical push for schooling for all, and why the United States eventually killed it
Gender equality and economic growth
Conclusion
4 Neoliberalism's Gendered Architecture
Cooking up neoliberalism: East-West circuits of power and expertise
Structuring condition #1: States protect elites and global capital

Structuring condition #2: Strengthened national borders support global trade but restrict migration
Key Actor #1: Individuals
Key actor #2: Nation-states
Imperialism, hegemony, and aspiration in US neoliberalism
A complete break from the socialist past in the FSU
Meritocracy, free markets, and an emerging economy: India's neoliberal turn
Conclusion
5 Moving Toward Modernity
Global economic restructuring and the limits of human capital theory
Modernity threat: migrant domestic workers
Philippines: the labor brokerage state and "export quality" women

Former Soviet Bloc countries: becoming European
Modernity promise: marriage migrants
Conclusion
6 Manly Protectors
Anxious men, exhausted women
"Irrelevant" men in three regions
Affect and nation: the opening for an oppositional modernity
Othering through misogyny
Othering through homophobia
Putin: fantasies of empire
Modi: building a "global" Hindu nation from the inside out
Trump: uniting the right
Conclusion
7 Conclusion: A Fairer Multipolar Future
Gender and national belonging: a view from COVID-19 times

Remembering the historical roots of Russia's war in Ukraine
Justice not modernity: centering human flourishing and care
A final note: the need for joy
Notes
Chapter 1 Introduction: A Multicentric World Order
Chapter 2 Neoliberalism's Pre-histories
Chapter 3 Investing in "Empowered" Women
Chapter 4 Neoliberalism's Gendered Architecture
Chapter 5 Moving Toward Modernity
Chapter 6 Manly Protectors
Chapter 7 Conclusion: A Fairer Multipolar Future
References
Index
EULA