Chapter 23 (pp. 1137-1171) & Chapter 23 visual sources (pp 1182-1187)

The kind of economic globalization taking shape in the 1970s and after was known as neoliberalism. Major capitalist countries such as the United States and Great Britain. Powerful international lending agencies such as the world bank and the MIF imposed such free market and pro business conditions on many poor countries if they were to qualify to much needed loans. Central to the acceleration of economic globalization have been huge global businesses known as transnational corporations which produce goods. Economic globalization has contributed to inequalities not only at the global level and among developing countries but also within individual nations rich, and poor.

In the West, organized feminism had lost momentum by the end of the 1920s when its countries had achieved universal suffrage. Liberation for women meant becoming aware of their own oppression and process that took place in thousands of conciousness-raising groups across the country.

The globalization of environmentalism also disclosed sharp conflicts particularly between the global North and South. Western governments argued argued that newly industrialization countries such as China and India.

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Not many people in the world of the early twenty-first century remain untouched by globalization. Almost all of us, for example, live in nation states and seek health, wealth, and prosperity. Among the common experiences of globalization for some people living in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. If globalization offered employment opportunities to some people in developing countries. It also promoted a worldwide culture of consumerism.