'This elegant and profound work - emerging out of a lifetime of scholarly and solidarity engagement - exemplifies many a virtue of what Max Horkheimer named once named as 'interdisciplinary materialism'. Foregrounding the global social (re)production of women's vulnerabilities via the frameworks of global 'commodity' and 'care' chains stands accompanied by a steadfast, though anxious, normative concern with the ethics of care, justice and human rights. This book enlarges our horizons of critical understanding. It takes women's human sufferings and rights seriously to map a new agendum of transformative politics, by women-in-struggle and the practitioners of 'feminist' theory, that may yet convert historic 'constraints' into future 'opportunities' for collective social action. Ann Stewart writes with dazzling clarity - an inestimable resource for communicative solidarity surcharged with an ethical responsibility for making the world better than one finds it.' Upendra Baxi, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick and University of Delhi.