CLASS SYLLABUS GEOG/WMST 3672

NB.  This syllabus is subject to change; you will be advised of changes in
advance in class and on the listserve.

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I. GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT: GENERAL CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS

Introduction

  Week 1     

M. January 12   Introduction: Syllabus, Assignments, Start Game

W January 14.  GAME  I. Transnational Corporations

Reading: Brecher, Jeremy, and Tim Costello. 1994. Global Village or Global Pillage. South End Press. Boston. Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2.

Theoretical Background

  Week 2 

M. January 19  Martin Luther King Holiday: no class

W. January 21  Colonialism

Reading: Allen, Tim and Alan Thomas.1992. Poverty and Development in the 1990's. Oxford University Press. Oxford. pp.116-141, 168-184.

  Week 3  

M. January 26  Development and Globalization Theory

Reading: Mander, Jerry and Edward Goldsmith. 1996. The Case Against the Global Economy. Sierra Club Press. San Francisco pp. 33-46, 60-77.

W. January 28 Development and Globalization Theory

Assignment: Media Review Paper

Social and Cultural Impacts of Globalization

  Week 4 

M. February 2  Video: Child Prostitution in Thailand

W. February 4 Migration-Lecture by Caroline Nagel

Reading: Castles, Stephen and Mark Miller. 1993. The Age of Migration. Guilford Press. New York. Chapter 4.

Andreas, Peter. The Making of Amerexico.

  Week 5 

M. February 9 GAME II. Labor Migration, and Responses to Immigration

Assignment: Response Paper #1

 

II. GENDER/ FEMINIST CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS

W.February 11: Feminism; Gendered Lens   VIDEO:  Who's Counting

Assignment: Media Review Paper

Reading: Johnson-Odim, Cheryl.1991. "Common Themes, Different Contexts", in Mohanty, et.al. eds. Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism.. Indiana Press. Bloomington.

  Week 6 

M. February 16: Systems of Patriarchy: Gender Relations

Reading: Bina Agarwal.1994. A Field of One's Own. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. Chapter 2, pp.51-81. "Conceptualizing Gender Relations".

W February 18: Systems of Patriarchy: Gender and Power

Reading: Waylen, Georgina. 1996. Gender in Third World Politics. Lynne Rienner.Boulder. Chapter 1: Analyzing Gender in the Politics of the Third World. pp. 3-23.

Assignment: Response Paper #2

  Week 7

M. February 23: Masculinities

Readings:

• Blood, Peter, Alan Tuttle, and George Lakey, 1988. "Understanding and Fighting Sexism: A Call to Men", in Anderson and Hill Collins, eds. Race, Class, and Gender. Wadsworth. Belmont, CA
• Dyson, Michael. 1988. "The Plight of Black Men", in Anderson and Hill Collins, eds. Race, Class, and Gender. Wadsworth. Belmont, CA
• Thompson, Cooper. 1998. "A New Vision of Masculinity", in Rothenberg, ed. Race, Class and Gender. St. Martin's Press. NY
• Bly, Robert and Keith Thompson. 1985. "What Men Really Want", Welwood, ed. Challenge of the Heart. Shambala. Boston.

W. February 25: MIDTERM ONE

 

III. GENDERED PROCESSES WITHIN GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT

  Week 8

M. March 2: INTRODUCTION TO GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT

Reading: NONE     

Assignment: Media Review Paper             

W. March 4: Population Politics

Reading: Hartmann, Betsey. 1995. Reproductive Rights and Wrongs. South End Press. Boston. pp. 41-89.  

 

  Week 9

M. March 9: Population Politics/Special Lecture: Dr.Joel Cohen at UMC 235, 4:00

Note: Please do the Hartmann reading prior to this lecture so that you can participate in discussion.

 

Rural Development/Natural Resources/Environment

W. March 11: Videos: Ecofeminism

Reading: Shiva,Vandana. 1988. Staying Alive. Zed Books. London. Chapters 1 and 3; Choice of Chapter 4 or 5.

Assignment: Response Paper #3: CANCELLED

Week 10

M. March 16: Ecofeminism: Pros and Cons

Reading: Nanda, Meera. 1997. "History Is What Hurts", in Hennessy and Ingraham, eds., Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives. Routledge. London.

W. March 18: Snowday

 

  Week 11

March 23-25: SPRING BREAK
Assignment: Read The Joys of Motherhood

  Week 12

M. March 30:  Feminist Political Ecology

Reading: Carney, Judith. 1992. "Peasant Women and Economic Transformation in The Gambia". Development and Change. Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 67-90.

W. April 1:GAME THREE: FREE TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS

Reading: Shiva, Vandana. 1993. "GATT, Agriculture, andThird World Women," in Ecofeminism.

 

Urbanization/ Industrialization

  Week 13         

M April 6: Video: Global Assembly Line

Reading: Tiano, Susan. 1990. "Maquiladora Women: A New Category of Workers."

    W. April 8: The Informal Economy

Readings: Jellinek, Lea. 1988. "The Changing Fortunes of a Jakarta Street Trader," in Gugler, ed. The Urbanization of the Third World.

Harrison, Faye. 1991. Women in Jamaica's Urban Informal Economy", in Mohanty, et.al. eds., Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism.Indiana Press. Bloomington.

  Week 14        

M. April 13: Feminist Economics

Readings: Grameen Bank Handouts

Beneria, Lourdes. 1992. "The Mexican Debt Crisis: Restructuring the Economy and the Household", in Beneria and Feldman, Unequal Burden.. Westview Press. Boulder

Assignment: Response Paper #4

HAND OUT MIDTERM STUDY QUESTIONS

W. April 15: VIDEO: Gabriela

 

  Week 15:        

M. April 20: MIDTERM TWO

 

  

IV. WOMEN'S RESISTANCE, AGENCY, AND IDENTITY

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE  

W. April 22: Identity / Historical Resistance

Readings: Mohanty, Cartographies of Struggle, in Mohanty et.al., eds.Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism..Indiana Press. Bloomington. pp. 28-47.  

Ong, Aiwa. 1987. Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline. SUNY Press. Albany. Chapters 7 and 8     

 

  Week 16        

M. April 27: VIDEO: When Women Unite

W. April 29: Organized Labor and Women

Reading: Gandhi, Nandita. 1996. "Purple and Red Banners: Joint Strategies for Women Workers in the Informal Sector," in Chhachhi and Pitten. eds., Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy. St. Martin's Press. NY.  

Reading: Mauleon, Cecilia Olea. 1996. "The Contribution of Feminist Training to the Democratization of Labour Unions." in Chhachhi and Pitten. eds., Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy. St. Martin's Press. NY        

Assignment: Response Paper #5

  Week 17        

M. May 4: Wrapup/Summary/Discussion of Term Paper

W. May 6: TERM PAPER DUE 3:00 in Donna's Office/ 311 Guggenheim or before in mailbox.
 

  Week 18  

Final Exam: PRESENTATION OF GROUP PROJECTS