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Melissa Wright is professor of Geography and Women’s Studies at Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania. She received her PhD. in Geography and Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1997 and her A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard in 1987. She has been a full professor of at Penn State University since 2011.

Life and Work
In 2006 Wright published Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism. (New York and London, Routledge) In it, she utilizes a feminist Marxist framework to argue that the processes of capital accumulation in factories relies on the myth that female workers are disposable. Her argument is grounded in years of fieldwork with workers in Ciudad Juarez on the U.S./Mexico border and interviews with factory owners and workers in China.