Women and Power in the Global City

Saskia Sassen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Guests and Aliens, Globalization and It's Discontents, and Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization. She continues work on two projects, "Citites and Their Crossborder Networks," sponsored by the United Nations University, and "Governance and Accountability in a Global Economy." She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Part of the World Affairs Series: Globalization - Prospects For Democracy and Freedom.