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Required texts:
Visvanathan, N,
Duggan, L, Nisonoff, L and N. Wiegersma (editors). 1997. The women,
gender and development reader. London: Zed Books Ltd.
Kathryn Farr. 2005.
Sex Trafficking. New York: Worth.
We will be reading
several chapters from Ester Boserup's Woman's role in economic development.
However the book is out of print, so unless you can find a copy somewhere
(see below), you can download the chapters from electronic reserve.
If you're looking
for a used copy, you might try the Advanced
Book Exchange (www.abebooks.com).
Check the condition of the book, though (usually there's a description).
Reading
schedule by week
| Week |
topic(s) |
readings |
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What
is development? |
Seers,
Charlton, Griffin |
| 2
(4/4 - 4/8) |
How
has development affected women? |
Cagatay;
Young; Tinker; Boserup |
| 3
(4/11 - 4/15) |
Women
and the land |
Boserup,
Braidotti, Hartmann, Koopman |
| 4
(4/18 - 4/22) |
Women
and work |
Boserup,
Arizpe, Beneria, Fernandez-Kelly |
|
April
21: Campus-wide conference--we will be canceling class
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| 5
(4/25 - 4/29) |
Power
and the state |
Kandiyotti,
Mohanty, Afshar, Hoodfar, Garcia-Morena, Sen, fgmnetwork |
|
Midterm
exam, Monday and Tuesday, May 2-3
|
| 6
(5/4 - 5/6) |
What's
being done? |
begin
reading Kathryn Farr's book (Sex Trafficking)--we'll
work on group projects in class |
| 7
(5/9 - 5/13) |
What's
being done? |
Young,
Santiago, Future Harvest, Cohen, Mackie, Birdsall and Deese;
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| 8
(5/16 - 5/20) |
Trafficking:
A case study |
Landesman,
Farr, Kristoff |
| 9
(5/23 - 5/27) |
Trafficking,
Ciudad Juarez |
Moore,
Nieves, Farr |
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May
30, Memorial Day--no school
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| 10
(5/31 - 6/3) |
Group
project presentations
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|
11 (6/6 - 6/10) |
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Week 1: What
is development?
- Seers, Dudley.
1979. The meaning of development. Pp 9-30 in D. Lehmann (ed) Development
theory: Four critical studies. London: Frank Cass. Available
through electronic reserve
- Charlton, S.
1997. Development as history and process. Pp 7-13 in N. Visvanathan,
L. Duggan, L. Nisonoff, N. Wiegersma (eds) The women, gender and
development reader. London: Zed Books.
- Keith Griffin.
1979. Underdevelopment in history. Pp 77-90 in C. Wilber (ed) The
Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment (2nd edition).
New York: Random House. On
electronic reserve
- Become familiar
with the course Web page--do
20 minutes or so of surfing, make sure you know what's there and how
to use it--we will use it often in here, and if you're familiar with
it, there will be less unpleasant surprises for you in class.
Online resources:
Week 2: How has
development affected women?
- Cagatay, Nilufer.
1988. Gender and poverty. Working Paper no. 5. United Nations Development
Program. Available online at: http://www.undp.org/poverty/publications/wkpaper/wp5/wp5-nilufer.PDF
(23 pp)
- Young, K. 1997.
Gender and development. Pp 51-54 in N. Visvanathan, L. Duggan, L.
Nisonoff, N. Wiegersma (eds) The Women, Gender and Development
Reader. London: Zed Books.
- Tinker, Irene.
1997. The making of a field: Advocates, practitioners and scholars.
Pp 33-41 in N. Visvanathan, L. Duggan, L. Nisonoff, N. Wiegersma (eds)
The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books.
- Boserup, E. 1970.
Woman's role in economic development. London: Earthscan Publications.
Pp 53-65, Chapter 3 ('Loss of status under European rule'). On
electronic reserve
Online resources:
top
of page
Week 3: Women
and the land
- Boserup, E. 1970.
Woman's role in economic development. London: Earthscan Publications.
Pp 15-52, Chapters 1-2 ('Male and female farming systems,' 'The economics
of polygamy'). On
electronic reserve
- Braidotti, R.,
Charkiewicz, E., Häusler, and S. Wieringa. 1997. Women, the environment
and sustainable development. Pp 54-61 in The Reader.
- Hartmann, B.
1997. Women, population and the environment: Whose consensus? Whose
empowerment? Pp 293-302 in The Reader.
- Koopman, Jeanne.
1997. The hidden roots of the African food problem: Looking within
the rural household. Pp 132-41 in The Reader.
Online resources:
Week 4: Women
and work
- Boserup, E. 1970.
Woman's role in economic development. London: Earthscan Publications.
Pp 85-105, Chapter 5 ('Women in a men's world;' chapter 11, 'the lure
of the towns', pp 157-73). On
electronic reserve
- Beneria, L. 1997.
Accounting for women's work: The progress of two decades. Pp 112-18
in The Reader.
- Arizpe, L. 1997.
Women in the informal-labour sector: The case of Mexico City. Pp 230-38
in The Reader.
- Fernandez-Kelly,
M. 1997. Maquiladoras: The view from the inside. Pp 203-15
in The Reader.
Online resources:
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of page
Week 5: Power
and the state
- Kandiyoti, D.
1997. Bargaining with patriarchy. Pp 86-92 in The Reader.
- Mohanty, C. 1997.
Under Western eyes: Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses.
Pp 79-86 in The Reader.
- Afshar, H. 1997.
Women, marriage and the state in Iran. Pp 317-20 in The Reader.
- Hoodfar, H. 1997.
Return to the veil: Personal strategy and public participation in
Egypt. Pp 320-26 in The Reader.
- Sen, Gita. 1997.
Subordination and sexual control: A comparative view of the control
of women. Pp 142-49 in The Reader.
- Garcia-Moreno,
C. 1997. AIDS: Women are not just transmitters. Pp 302-09 in The
Reader.
- fgmnetwork.org.
2001. Female genital cutting: An introduction. Available online at
http://www.fgmnetwork.org/intro/fgmintro.html
Online resources:
Week 6: Sex Trafficking
(introduction)
- Kathryn Farr.
2005. Sex Trafficking. New York: Worth. (chapter 1: 'Introduction:
Size and Scope')
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of page
Week 7: What's
being done?
- Young, K. 1997.
Planning from a gender perspective: Making a world of difference.
Pp 366-74 in The Reader.
- Rose, Kalima.
1997. SEWA: Women in movement. Pp 382-86 in The Reader.
- Future Harvest.
2001. In Mali, women farmers aid scientists in search for better groundnut
varieties. Jan 15. Available online at http://www.futureharvest.org/pdf/groundnuts_feature.pdf
(3 pp)
- Mackie, Gerry.
1998. A way to end female genital cutting. From fgmnetwork.org. Available
online at http://www.fgmnetwork.org/articles/mackie1998.html
- Drucker, David.
1986. Ask a silly question, get a silly answer--community participation
and the demystification of health care. Pp 161-71 in D. Korten (ed)
Community Management: Asian Experience and Perspectives. West
Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press. On
electronic reserve
- Nancy Birdsall
and Brian Deese. 2004. Hard currency. Washington Monthly. March.
Available online at http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0403.birdsall.html
- Kathryn Farr.
2005. Sex Trafficking. (keep reading ....)
Week 8
Trafficking:
A case study
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Week 9: Case
study, Ciudad Juarez (and wrapping up trafficking)
Additional links:
Week 10: Group
presentations of term projects
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