GENDER AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Susan Tiano, Spring, 2001
Office hours: 1-4 Mondays
1056 Social Science, 277-5931,
Chair’s Office, Sociology Department, 277-2501
And they shall beat their pots and
pans into printing presses
And wave their cloth into protest
banners
Nations of women shall lift up their
voices with nations of other women
Neither shall they accept discrimination
any more
-Mary Chagnon
This seminar focuses on women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, exploring their historical and current circumstances in light of the changing global political-economy. The contrasting approaches of "liberal feminism," "socialist feminism," and "post-structural feminism" provide the major theoretical frameworks for the course. The course begins with an analysis of the impact of colonialism, capitalism, and globalization on Third World women and men. It then assesses how changing trends in the global system, and corresponding transformations in modes of production and reproduction, are affecting women's lives. Throughout the course, we will view women as active agents, and consider their economic, political, and subjective responses to their changing circumstances.
SEMINAR FORMAT AND REQUIREMENTS
Class sessions will be devoted to structured and semi-structured class discussions. Class members' regular attendance and active participation in discussions are essential. Assigned readings should be completed prior to each week's session. Written assignments include an annotated bibliography and a paper dealing with a topic within the field of gender and development. (I urge each participant to discuss her/his topic with me during the early part of the course.) These written assignments are due May 4.
Seminar participants should purchase the following books:
So, Alvin, Social Change and Development. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990.
Tiano, Susan, Patriarchy on the Line: Labor, Gender, and Ideology in the Mexican Maquila Industry. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1994.
Additional reading materials will be placed on reserve.
COURSE TOPICS AND READINGS
Week 1 Introduction: Discussion of Aims and Focus of the Seminar
Week 2 Theoretical Perspectives on Development: Modernization Theory
Required Readings
So, Alvin, Social Change and Development, Chapters 1-4.
Scott, Catherine, "Tradition and Gender in Modernization Theory," in her Gender and Development: Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995, pp. 23-42.
Recommended Readings
Smelser, Neil, "Mechanisms of Change and Adjustment to Change," in Hoselitz and Moore (eds.) Industrialization and Society. UNESCO:
Mouton, 1970, pp. 32-54.
Rostow, W.W., "The Stages of Economic Growth," in D. Novack and R.
Lekachman (eds.) Development and Society. New York: St. Martins, 1969.
Deutsch, Karl, "Social Mobilization and Political Development," American
Political Science Review, Vol. 55 (1961) pp. 493-514.
Gusfield, Joseph, "Tradition and Modernity: Misplaced Polarities in the
Study of Social Change," American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 72 (January
1967) pp. 351-362.
Tipps, D.C., "Modernization Theory and the Comparative Study of Societies: A Critical Perspective," Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 15, No. 2 (1975) pp. 199-227.
Week 3 Theoretical Perspectives on Development: Dependency Theory and World System Theory
Required
So, Alvin, Social Change and Development, Chapters 5-11.
Recommended
Baran, Paul, "On the Political Economy of Backwardness," in Charles Wilber
(ed.) The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment. New
York: Random House, 1979, pp. 91-103.
Frank, Andre, "The Development of Underdevelopment," in Charles Wilber
(ed.) The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment. New
York: Random House, 1979, pp. 103-113.
O'Brien, Philip, "A Critique of Latin American Theories of Dependency," in
Oxaal, Barnett, and Booths (eds.) Beyond the Sociology of Development.
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975, pp. 7-27.
Furtado, Celso, "The Concept of External Dependence," in C. Wilber (ed.)
The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment. Random House,
1979, pp. 118-123.
Evans, Peter, Dependent Development. Princeton University Press, 1979.
Wallerstein, Immanuel, "On the Study of Social Change," in his The Modern
World System. New York: Academic Press, 1974, pp. 3-11.
Chirot, Daniel, Social Change in the Twentieth Century. Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1977.
Chirot, Daniel and Tomas Hall, "World-System Theory," Annual Review of
Sociology, Vol. 8, 1982.
Week 4 Theoretical Perspectives on Gender: Liberal Feminism, Developmentalism, Radical Feminism
Required
Jaggar, Alison, "Liberal Feminism and Human Nature," in her Feminist
Politics and Human Nature. Sussex: The Harvester Press, 1983, pp. 27-50.
Jaquette, Jane, "Women and Modernization Theory: A Decade of Feminist
Criticism," World Politics, Vol. 34, 1982, pp. 266-284.
Tiano, Susan, "The Public-Private Dichotomy: Theoretical Perspectives on
'Women in Development'" The Social Science Journal, Vol. 21, No. 4
(October 1984) pp. 11-28.
Tinker, Irene, "The Adverse Impact of Development on Women," in I. Tinker
and M. Bramsen (eds.) Women and World Development. Overseas Development
Council, 1976, pp. 22-34.
Jaggar, Alison, "Radical Feminism and Human Nature," in her Feminist
Politics and Human Nature. Sussex: Harvester Press, 1983, pp. 83-122.
Recommended
(Liberal Feminism):
Mill, John Stuart, "The Subjection of Women," in Alice Rossi (ed.) Essays
in Sex Equality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Rossi, Alice, "Equality Between the Sexes: An Immodest Proposal," Daedalus, Vol. 93, No. 2 (Spring 1964) pp. 607-652.
Deckard, Barbara, "Theories of Women's Liberation," in her The Women's
Movement. New York: Harper and Row, 1975, pp. 444-466.
(Developmentalism):
Boserup, Esther, Women's Role in Economic Development. New York: St.
Martin's, 1970, pp. 15-154.
Elliott, Carolyn, "Theories of Development," in Wellesley Editorial
Committee (eds.) Women and National Development. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1977, pp. 1-8.
Boserup, Esther, "Economic Change and the Roles of Women," in Irene Tinker
(ed.) Persistent Inequalities: Women and World Development. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 14-24.
Blumberg, Rae Lesser, "Fairy Tales and Facts: Economy, Family, Fertility,
and the Female," in I. and M. Bramsen (eds.) Women and World Development. Washington, D.C.: Overseas Development Council, 1976, pp. 12-21.
Youssef, Nadia, "Women in Development: Urban Life and Labor," in Irene
Tinker and Michele Bo Bramsen (eds.) Women and World Development.
Washington, D.C.: Overseas Development Council, 1976, pp. 70-77.
Week 5 Theoretical Perspectives on Gender: Marxist Feminism and Socialist Feminism
Required
Jaggar, Alison, "Traditional Marxism and Human Nature," in her Feminist
Politics and Human Nature. Sussex: Harvester Press, 1983, pp. 51-82.
Jaggar, Alison, "Socialist Feminism and Human Nature," in her Feminist
Politics and Human Nature. Sussex: Harvester Press, 1983, pp. 123-167.
Eisenstein, Zillah, "Developing a Theory of Capitalist Patriarchy and
Socialist Feminism," in Z. Eisenstein (ed.) Capitalist Patriarchy and the
Case for Socialist Feminism. New York: Monthly Review Press, pp. 5-40.
Shelton, Beth and Ben Agger, "Shotgun Wedding, Unhappy Marriage, No-Fault Divorce? Rethinking the Feminism-Marxism Relationship," in Paula England (ed.) Theory on Gender: Feminism on Theory. Aldine, 1993, pp. 25-42.
Recommended
Leacock, Eleanor, "Introduction," to Frederick Engels, The Origin of the
Family, Private Property, and the State. New York: International
Publishers, 1975, pp. 7-67.
Sacks, Karen, "Engels Revisited: Women, the Organization of Production,
and Private Property," in R. Reiter (ed.) Toward An Anthropology of
Women. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975, pp. 157-210.
Saffioti, Heleieth, "Author's Introduction," to her Women in Class
Society. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978, pp. 3-30.
Lane, Ann, "Women in Society: A Critique of Frederick Engels," in B.
Carroll (ed.) Liberating Women's History. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1976, pp. 4-25.
Kaplan, Temma, "A Marxist Analysis of Women and Capitalism," in J.
Jacquette (ed.) Women and Politics. New York: Wiley, 1974, pp. 257-266.
McDonough, Roisin and Rachael Harrison, "Patriarchy and Relations of
Production," in A. Kuhn and A. Wolpe (eds.) Feminism and Materialism.
London: Routledge, 1978, pp. 11-41.
Rubin, Gayle, "The Traffic in Women: Notes on Political Economy of Sex,"
Rayna Reiter (ed.) Toward an Anthropology of Women. New York: Monthly
Review Press, 1975, pp. 157-210.
Hartmann, Heidi and Ann Markusen, "Contemporary Marxist Theory and
Practice: A Feminist Critique," Review of Political Economics, Vol. 12
(Summer 1980) pp. 87-94.
Beneria, Lourdes and Gita Sen, "Accumulation, Reproduction, and Women's
Role in Economic Development: Boserup Revisited," Signs, Vol. 7, No. 2
(1981) pp. 279-298.
Week 6 Theoretical Perspectives on Gender: Post-Structuralist Approaches and
Critiques
Required
Marshall, Barbara, "Gendered Identities," from her Engendering Modernity:
Feminism, Social Theory and Social Change. Cambridge: Polity Press,
1994, pp. 95-120.
Scott, Joan, "Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: or, The Uses of
Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism," in Anne Herrmann and Abigail
Stewart (eds.) Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities
and Social Sciences. Boulder: Westview, 1994, pp. 358-371.
Ong, Aihwa, "Colonialism and Modernity: Feminist Re-presentations of
Women in Non-Western Societies," in Anne Herrmann and Abigail Stewart
(eds.) Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social
Sciences. Boulder: Westview, 1994, pp. 372-381.
Hirshman, Mitu, "Women and Development: A Critique," in Marianne Marchand
and Jane Parpart (eds.) Feminism/Postmodernism/Development. London:
Routledge, 1995, pp. 42-55.
Mohanty, Chandra, "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial
Discourses," in Chandra Mohanty, Anne Russo, and Lourdes Torres (eds.)
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1991.
Bordo, Susan, "Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism," in Anne
Herrmann and Abigail Stewart (eds.) Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends
in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Boulder: Westview, 1994, pp.
458-481.
Recommended:
Mann, Susan and Lori Kelly, "Standing at the Crossroads of Modernist Thought: Collins, Smith, and the New Feminist Epistemologies," Gender & Society, Vol. 11, No. 4, (August 1997) pp. 391-408.
Haraway, Donna, "A Cyborg Manifesto," in Anne Herrmann and Abigail
Stewart (eds.) Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities
and Social Sciences. Boulder: Westview, 1994, pp.424-457.
Mohanty, Chandra, "Introduction: Cartographies of Struggle," in Chandra
Mohanty, Anne Russo, and Lourdes Torres (eds.) Third World Women and the
Politics of Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991, pp.
1-47.
Ong, Aihwa, "The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity," Annual
Review of Anthropology, Vol. 20, 1991, pp. 279-309.
Hare-Mustin, Rachel, and Jeanne Marecek, "Gender and the Meaning of
Difference: Postmodernism and Psychology," in Anne Herrmann and Abigail
Stewart (eds.) Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities
and Social Sciences. Boulder: Westview, 1994, pp. 49-76.
Barriteau, Eudine, "Postmodernist Feminist Theorizing and Development
Policy and Practice in the Anglophone Caribbean,' in Marianne Marchand
and Jane Parpart (eds.) Feminism/Postmodernism/Development. London:
Routledge, 1995, pp. 142-155.
Silverman, Kaja, "Fragments of a Fashionable Discourse," in Anne Herrmann
and Abigail Stewart (eds.) Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the
Humanities and Social Sciences. Boulder: Westview, 1994, pp. 77-88.
Johnson-Odim, Cheryl, "Common Themes, Different Contexts: Third World
Women and Feminism, in Chandra Mohanty, Anne Russo, and Lourdes Torres
(eds.) Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1991 pp. 314-327.
Dallery, Arleen, "The Politics of Writing (the) body: Ecriture Feminine,"
in Anne Herrmann and Abigail Stewart (eds.) Theorizing Feminism:
Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Boulder:
Westview, 1994, pp. 288-300.
Williamson, Judith, "Woman is an Island: Femininity and Colonization," in
Anne Herrmann and Abigail Stewart (eds.) Theorizing Feminism: Parallel
Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Boulder: Westview, 1994,
pp. 382-400.
Udayagiri, Mridula, "Challenging Modernization: Gender and Development,
Postmodern Feminism, and Activism," in M. Marchand and J. Parpant (eds.) Feminism/Postmodernism/Development. London: Routledge, 1995, pp. 159-169.
Haraway, Donna, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.
New York: Routledge, 1991.
Eisenstein, Hester and Alice Jardine (eds.) The Future of Difference.
Rutgers University Press, 1985.
Week 7 Colonialism, Capitalism, Globalization, and Gender
Required
Etienne, Mona, and Eleanor Leacock, "Introduction," to their Women and
Colonization, Praeger, 1980, pp. 1-24.
Buenaventura-Posso, Elisa, and Susan Brown, "Forced Transition from Egalitarianism to Male Dominance: The Bari of Columbia," in M. Etienne and E. Leacock (eds.) Women and Colonization, Praeger, 1980, pp. 109-133.
Smith, Joan, "The Creation of the World We Know: The World-Economy and the Re-creation of Gendered Identities," in Valentine Moghadam (ed.) Identity Politics and Women. Boulder: Westview, 1994, pp. 27-41.
Green, Joyce and Cora Voyageur, "Globalization and Development at the Bottom," in Marilyn Porter and Ellen Judd, (eds.) Feminists Doing Development. London: Zed Books, 1999, pp. 142-157.
Pettman, Jan, "Globalisation and the Gendered Politics of Citizenship," in Nira Yuval-Davis and Pnina Werbner (eds.) Women, Citizenship and Difference. London: Zed Books, 1999, pp. 207-220.
Kerr, Joanna, "Responding to Globalization: Can Feminists Transform Development?" in Marilyn Porter and Ellen Judd, (eds.) Feminists Doing Development. London: Zed Books, 1999, pp. 190-205.
Recommended
Tiano, Susan, "Gender, Work, and World Capitalism: Third World Women's
Role in Development," in Beth Hess and Myra Marx Ferree (eds.) Analyzing
Gender: Social Science Perspectives, Sage, 1987, pp. 216-243.
Burkett, Elinor, "In Dubious Sisterhood: Class and Sex in Spanish
Colonial South America," in Bollinger, et al. (eds.) Women in Latin
America: An Anthology from Latin American Perspectives. Riverside, Ca:
Latin American Perspectives, 1979, pp. 17-25.
Deere, Carmen Diana, "Changing Social Relations of Production and Peruvian
Peasant Women's Work," in Women in Latin America An Anthology from Latin
American Perspectives. Riverside, Ca: Latin American Perspectives, 1979,
pp. 26-46.
Nash, June, "Aztec Women: The Transition from Status to Class in Empire
and Colony," in Mona Etienne and Eleanor Leacock (eds.) Women and
Colonization, Praeger, 1980, pp. 134-148.
Rubbo, Anna, "The Spread of Capitalism in Rural Colombia: Effects on Poor
Women," in Rayna Reiter (ed.) Toward an Anthropology of Women, Monthly
Review Press, 1975, pp. 333-357.
Goheen, Miriam, "The Ideology and Political Economy of Gender: Women and
Land in Nso, Cameroon," in Christina Gladwin (ed.) Structural Adjustment
and African Women Workers. Gainsville: University of Florida Press,
1991, pp. 239-265.
Afonja, Simi, "Changing Patterns of Gender Stratification in West Africa,"
in Irene Tinker (ed.) Persistent Inequalities: Women and World
Development. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 198-209.
Mazumdar, Vina and Kumud Sharma, "Sexual Division of Labor and the
Subordination of Women: A Reappraisal from India," in Irene Tinker (ed.)
Persistent Inequalities: Women and World Development. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1990, pp. 185-197.
Bakker, Isabella, "The New Global Architecture: Gender and Development Practices, in in Marilyn Porter and Ellen Judd, (eds.) Feminists Doing Development. London: Zed Books, 1999, pp. 206-217.
Week 8 Global Crisis, Structural Adjustment, and Women's Well-Being
Required
Feldman, Shelley, "Crises, Poverty, and Gender Inequality: Current Themes
and Issues," in Lourdes Beneria and Shelley Feldman (eds.) Unequal
Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and Women's Work. Boulder:
Westview, 1992, pp. 1-25.
Scott, Catherine, "Gender and the World Bank: Modernization Theory in Practice," in her Gender and Development: Rethinking Modernization and Development Theory, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1995, pp. 69-86.
Nash, June, "Latin American Women in the World Capitalist Crisis," Gender
& Society, Vol. 4, No. 3 (September 1990) pp. 338-353.
Elson, Diane, "From Survival Strategies to Transformation Strategies:
Women's Needs and Structural Adjustment," in Lourdes Beneria and Shelley
Feldman (eds.) Unequal Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and
Women's Work. Boulder: Westview, 1992, pp. 26-48.
Beneria, Lourdes, "The Mexican Debt Crisis: Restructuring the Economy and
the Household," in Lourdes Beneria and Shelley Feldman (eds.) Unequal
Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and Women's Work. Boulder:
Westview, 1992, pp. 83-104.
Recommended
Lele, Uma, "Women, Structural Adjustment, and Transformation: Some
Lessons and Questions from the African Experience," in Christina Gladwin
(ed.) Structural Adjustment and African Women Workers. Gainsville:
University of Florida Press, 1991, pp. 46-80.
Mones, Belkis and Lydia Grant, "Agricultural Development, the Economic
Crisis, and Rural Women in the Dominican Republic," in Carmen Diana Deere
and Magdalena Leon (eds.) Rural Women and State Policy. Boulder:
Westview, 1987, pp. 35-50.
Bolles, A. Lynn, "Economic Crisis and Female-Headed Households in Urban
Jamaica," in June Nash and Helen Safa (eds.) Women and Change in Latin
America. South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin and Garvey, 1985, pp. 65-83.
Safa, Helen and Peggy Antrobus, "Women and the Economic Crisis in the
Caribbean," in L. Beneria and S. Feldman (eds.) Unequal Burden. Boulder: Westview, 1992, pp. 49-82.
Due, Jean, "Policies to Overcome the Negative Effects of Structural
Adjustment Programs on African Female-Headed Households," in Christina
Gladwin (ed.) Structural Adjustment and African Women Workers.
Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 1991, pp. 103-127.
Tripp, Aili Mari, "The Impact of Crisis and Economic Reform on Women in
Urban Tanzania," in Lourdes Beneria and Shelley Feldman (eds.) Unequal
Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and Women's Work. Boulder:
Westview, 1992, pp. 159-180.
Perez-Aleman, "Economic Crisis and Women in Nicaragua," in Lourdes Beneria
and Shelley Feldman (eds.) Unequal Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent
Poverty, and Women's Work. Boulder: Westview, 1992, pp. 239-258.
Anderson, Joan and Martin de la Rosa, "Economic Survival Strategies of
Poor Families on the Mexican Border," Journal of Borderlands Studies, Vol.
VI, No. 1, 1991, pp. 51-68.
Jacobson, Jodi, "Women's Health: The Price of Poverty," in Marge
Koblinsky, Judith Timyan, and Jill Gay (eds.) The Health of Women: A
Global Perspective. Boulder: Westview, 1993, pp. 3-32.
Week 9 Modes of Production and Household Labor, Power, and Survival
Required
Deere, Carmen Diana, "Rural Women's Subsistence Production in the
Capitalist Periphery," The Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol.
8, No. 1, 1976, pp. 9-17.
Schmink, Marianne, "Household Economic Strategies: Review and Research
Agenda," Latin American Research Review, Vol. XIX, No. 3, 1984, pp.
87-101.
Bruce, Judith and Daisy Dwyer, "Introduction," to their A Home Divided:
Women and Income in the Third World. Stanford, Ca: Stanford University
Press, 1988, pp. 1-19.
Blumberg, Rae Lesser, "Income Under Female Versus Male Control," in her
Gender, Family, and Economy: The Triple Overlap. Newbury Park, CA:
Sage, 1991, pp. 97-127.
Berheide, Catherine and Marcia Segal, "Controlling Less Land, Producing
Less Food: The Fate of Female-Headed Households in Malawi," in Esther
Chow and Catherine Berheide (eds.) Women, the Family, and Policy: A Global Perspective. Albany: SUNY, 1994.
Grasmuck, Sherri and Rosario Espinal, "Market Success or Female Autonomy? Income, Ideology, and Empowerment among Microentrepreneurs in the Dominican Republic," Gender & Society, Vol. 14, No. 2, (April 2000) pp. 231-255.
Recommended
Papanek, Hanna, "To Each Less Than She Needs, From Each More Than She Can
Do: Allocations, Entitlements, and Value," in Irene Tinker (ed.)
Persistent Inequalities: Women and World Development. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1990, pp. 162-181.
Sanchez, Laura, Women's Power and the Gendered Division of Domestic Labor
in the Third World," Gender & Society, Vol. 7, No. 3, (September 1993),
pp. 434-459.
Roldan, Martha, "Renegotiating the Marital Contract: Intrahousehold
Patterns of Money Allocation and Women's Subordination Among Domestic
Outworkers in Mexico City," in Daisy Dwyer and Judith Bruce (eds.) A Home
Divided: Women and Income in the Third World. Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 1988, pp. 229-247.
Sen, Amartya, "Gender and Cooperative Conflicts," in Irene Tinker (ed.)
Persistent Inequalities: Women and World Development. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1990, pp. 123-149.
Blumberg, Rae, "Women's Work, Wealth, and Family Survival Strategy: The
Impact of Guatemala's ALCOSA Agricusiness Project," in Esther Chow and
Catherine Berheide (eds.) Women, the Family, and Policy: A Global
Perspective. Albany: SUNY, 1994, pp. 99-116.
Kibria, Nazli, "Culture, Social Class, and Income Control in the Lives of
Women Garment Workers in Bangladesh," Gender & Society, Vol.9, No. 3
(June 1995) pp. 289-309.
Stivens, Maila, "The Fate of Women's Land Rights: Gender, Matriliny, and
Capitalism in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia," in H. Afshar (ed.) Women, Work, and Ideology in the Third World. London: Tavistock
Publications, 1985, pp. 3-36.
Flora, Cornelia Butler and Blas Santos, "Women in Farming Systems in Latin
America," in June Nash and Helen Safa (eds.) Women and Change in Latin
America. South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin and Garvey, 1985, pp. 208-228.
Spindel, Cheywa, "The Social Invisibility of Women's Work in Brazilian
Agriculture," in Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena Leon (eds.) Rural Women
and State Policy. Boulder: Westview, 1987, pp. 51-66.
de los Angeles Crummett, Maria, "Rural Women and Migration in Latin
America," in Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena Leon (eds.) Rural Women and
State Policy. Boulder: Westview, 1987, pp. 239-260.
Fee, Terry, "Domestic Labour: An Analysis of Housework and its Relation
to the Production Process," Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 8,
No. 1 (1976) pp. 1-8.
Weinbaum, Batya and Amy Bridges, "The Other Side of the Paycheck:
Monopoly Capital and the Structure of Consumption," Monthly Review, Vol.
28 (1976) pp. 88-103.
Week 10 Reproduction, Mothering, and Families
Required
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano, "Social Constructions of Mothering: A Thematic
Overview," in Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Grace Chang, and Linda Forcey (eds.)
Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency. London: Routledge, 1994,
pp. 1-29.
Moore, Henrietta, "Mothering and Social Responsibilities in a Cross-
Cultural Perspective," in E. Silva (ed.) Good Enough Mothering: Feminist
Perspectives on Lone Motherhood. London: Routeledge, 1996, pp.58-75.
Collins, Patricia Hill, "Producing the Mothers of the Nation: Race, Class, and Contemporary US Population Policies," in Nira Yuval-Davis and Pnina Werbner (eds.) Women, Citizenship and Difference. London: Zed Books, 1999, 118-129.
Rothstein, Francis, "Capitalist Industrialization and the Increasing Cost
of Children" in June Nash, and Helen Safa (eds.) Women and Change in Latin
America. South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1985, pp. 37-52.
Tiano, Susan, and Carolina Ladino, "Dating, Mating, and Motherhood: Identity Construction among Mexican Maquila Workers," Environment and Planning A, Vol. 31, 1999, pp. 305-325.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, and Ernestine Avila, "’I’m Here, but I’m There’: The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood," Gender & Society, Vol. 11, No. 5 (October 1997) pp. 548-571.
Recommended
Chow, Esther Ngan-ling and Catherine White Berheide, "Introduction:
Studying Women, Families, and Policies Globally," in their Women, the
Family, and Policy: A Global Perspective. Albany: SUNY, 1994, pp. 1-29.
Thorne, Barrie, "Feminism and the Family: Two Decades of Thought," in B.
Thorne with M. Yalom (eds.) Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992, pp. 3-30.
"Chow, Esther and Kevin Chen, "The Impact of the One-Child Policy on
Women and the Patriarchal Family in the People's Republic of China," in
E. Chow and C. Berheide (eds.) Women, the Family, and Policy: A Global
Perspective. Albany: SUNY, 1994, pp. 71-98.
Kabeer, Naila, "Do Women Gain from High Fertility?" in H. Afshar (ed.)
Women, Work, and Ideology in the Third World. London: Tavistock, 1985, pp. 83-106.
Kuhn, Annette, "Structures of Patriarchy and Capital in the Family," A.
Kuhn and A. Wolpe (eds.) Feminism and Materialism. London: Routledge,
1978, pp. 42-67.
Gough, Kathleen, "The Origin of the Family," in Reyna Reiter (ed.) Toward
an Anthropology of Women. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975.
Collier, Jane, Michelle Rosaldo, and Sylvia Yanagisako, "Is There a
Family? New Anthropological Views," in B. Thorne with M. Yalom (eds.)
Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions. New York: Longman,
1982, pp. 25-39.
Minge, Wanda, "The Industrial Revolution and the European Family:
'Childhood' as a Market for Family Labor," in E. Leacock and H. Safa
(eds.) Women's Work. South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1986, pp.
13-24.
Segura, Denise, "Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexican Immigrant
Mothers and Employment," in Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Grace Chang, and Linda
Forcey Rennie (eds.) Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency.
London: Routledge, 1994, ppp. 211-233.
Week 11 Production, Formal Employment and the Informal Sector
Required
Beechey, Veronica, "Women and Production: A Critical Analysis of Some
Sociological Theories of Women's Work," in A. Kuhn and A. Wolpe (eds.)
Feminism and Materialism, London: Routledge, 1978, pp. 155-197.
Moghadam, Valentine, "Gender Dynamics of Restructuring in the
Semiperiphery," in Rae Lesser Blumberg et al. (eds.) EnGENDERing Wealth
and Well-Being. Boulder: Westview, 1995, pp. 17-37.
De Bowman, Olga Celle, "Peruvian Female Industrialists and the Globalization Project: Deindustrialization and Women’s Independence," Gender & Society, Vol. 14, No. 4 (August 2000) pp. 540-559.
Browne, Katherine, "Work Style and Network Management: Gendered Patterns and Economic Consequences in Martinique," Gender & Society, Vol. 14, No. 3 (June 2000) pp. 435-456.
Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar, "Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor," Gender & Society, Vol. 14, No. 4 (August 2000) pp. 560-580.
Lie, John, "The Transformation of Sexual Work in 20th-Century Korea,"
Gender & Society, Vol. 9, No. 3 (June 1995) pp. 310-327.
Recommended
Kessler-Harris, Alice, "Women, Work, and the Social Order," in B. Carroll
(ed.) Liberating Women's History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
1976, pp. 330-343.
Walby, Sylvia, "Theories of Women and Paid Work," in her Patriarchy at
Work. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986, pp. 70-89.
Psacharopoulos, George and Zafiris Tzannatos, "Trends and Pattern in
Female Labor Force Participation, 1950-1985," in their Women's Employment
and Pay in Latin America. World Bank, 1992, pp. 37-70.
Saffioti, Heleieth, "Female Labor and Capitalism in the United States and
Brazil," in R. Rohrlich-Leavitt (ed.) Women Cross-Culturally: Change and
Challenge. The Hague: Mouton, 1975, pp. 59-94.
Arizpe, Lourdes, "Women in the Informal Labor Sector: The Case of Mexico
City," in Wellesley Editorial Committee (eds.) Women and National
Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977, pp. 25-37.
Lovell, Peggy, "Race, Gender, and Development in Brazil," Latin American
Research Review, Vol. 29, No. 3, 1994, pp. 7-35.
Tinker, Irene, "The Urban Street Food Trade: Regional Variations of
Women's Involvement," in Esther Chow and Catherine Berheide (eds.) Women,
the Family, and Policy: A Global Perspective. Albany: SUNY, 1994, pp.
163-188.
Ruiz, Vicki, "By the Day or the Week: Mexicana Domestic Workers in El
Paso," in Vicki Ruiz and Susan Tiano (eds.) Women on the U.S.-Mexico
Border. Boulder: Westview, 1990, pp. 61-77.
Zsembik, Barbara and Chuck Peek, "The Effect of Economic Restructuring on
Puerto Rican Women's Labor Force Participation in the Formal Sector,"
Gender & Society, Vol. 8, No. 4 (December 1994) pp. 525-540.
Simeral, Margaret, "Women and the Reserve Army of Labor," The Insurgent
Sociologist, Vol. 8, Nos. 2 and 3 (Fall 1978).
Garcia Castro, Mary, "What is Bought and Sold in Domestic Service? The
Case of Bogota: A Critical Review," in Elsa Chaney and Mary Garcia Castro
(eds.) Muchachas No More: Household Workers in Latin America and the
Caribbean. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1989, pp. 105-126.
Young, Grace, "The Myth of Being 'Like a Daughter'," Latin American
Perspectives, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1987, pp. 365-380.
Clark, Roger, "Culture, Gender, and Labor Force Participation: A Cross-
National Study," Gender & Society, Vol. 5, No. 1, (March 1991) pp. 47-65.
Harrison, Faye, "Women in Jamaica's Urban Informal Economy: Insights from
a Kingston Slum," in C. Mohanty, A. Russo and L. Torres (eds.) Third World
Women and the Politics of Feminism. Indiana University Press, 1991, pp.
173-196.
Week 12: Gender and Industrial Restructuring: The Case of the Mexican
Maquiladora Industry
Required
Tiano, Susan, Patriarchy on the Line: Labor, Gender, and Ideology in the
Mexican Maquila Industry. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press,
1994, Chapters, 1-9, 11.
Recommended
Lim, Linda, "Women's Work in Export Factories: The Politics of a Cause,"
in Irene Tinker, (ed.) Persistent Inequalities: Women and World
Development. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 101-119.
Lee, Ching Kwan, "Familial Hegemony: Gender and Production Politics on
Hong Kong's Electronics Shopfloor," Gender & Society, Vol. 7, No. 4,
(December 1993) pp. 529-547.
Tiano, Susan, "Women's Work and Unemployment in Northern Mexico," in Vicki
Ruiz and Susan Tiano (eds.) Women on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Boulder:
Westview, 1990, pp. 17-40.
Nash, June, "The Impact of the Changing International Division of Labor on
Different Sectors of the Labor Force," in June Nash and Maria Patricia
Fernandez-Kelly (eds.) Women, Men, and the International Division of
Labor. Albany: SUNY Press, 1983, pp. 3-38.
Tiano, Susan, "Fertility, Selective Recruitment, and the Maquila Labor
Force," in E. Chow and C. Berheide (eds.) Women, the Family, and
Policy: A Global Perspective. Albany: SUNY, 1994, pp. 209-234.
Fernandez-Kelly, Maria Patricia, For We are Sold: I and My People.
Albany: SUNY Press, 1983.
Elson, Diane and Ruth Pearson, "Nimble Fingers Make Cheap Workers: An
Analysis of Women's Employment in Third World Export Manufacturing,"
Feminist Review, Spring, 1981, pp. 87-107.
Lim, Linda, "Capitalism, Imperialism, and Patriarchy: The Dilemma of
Third-World Women Workers in Multinational Factories," in J. Nash and M.
Fernandez-Kelly (eds.) Women, Men, and the International Division of
Labor. Albany: SUNY Press, 1983, pp. 70-91.
Ong, Aihwa, "Global Industries and Malay Peasants in Peninsular Malaysia,"
in J. Nash and M. Fernandez-Kelly (eds.) Women, Men, and the International
Division of Labor. Albany: SUNY Press, 1983, pp. 426-439.
Safa, Helen, "Runaway Shops and Female Employment: The Search for Cheap
Labor," in E. Leacock and H. Safa (eds.) Women's Work. South Hadley,
Massachusetts: Bergin and Garvey, 1986b, pp. 58-71.
Wolf, Diane, "Linking Women's Labor with the Global Economy: Factory
Workers and Their Families in Rural Java," in Kathryn Ward (ed.) Women
Workers and Global Restructuring. Cornell: ILR Press, 1990, pp. 25-47.
Pyle, Jean, The State and Women in the Economy. Albany: SUNY Press, 1990.
Safa, Helen, The Myth of the Male Breadwinner. Boulder, Westview, 1995.
Wolf, Diane, Factory Daughters. Berkeley: UC Press, 1992.
Hsiung, Ping-Chun, Living Rooms as Factories. Philadelphia: Temple, 1996.
Week 13: Gender, Consciousness, Agency, and Empowerment
Required
Gallin, Rita, "Women and the Export Industry in Taiwan: The Muting of
Class Consciousness," in Kathryn Ward (ed.) Women Workers and Global
Restructuring. Cornell: ILR Press, 1990, pp. 179-192.
Tiano, Susan, Patriarchy on the Line: Labor, Gender, and Ideology in the
Mexican Maquila Industry. Philadelphia, PA: Temple, 1994, Chapter 10.
Pena, Devon, "Tortuosidad: Shop Floor Struggles of Female Maquiladora
Workers," in Vicki Ruiz and Susan Tiano (eds.) Women on the U.S.-Mexico
Border. Boulder: Westview, 1990, pp. 129-154.
Kim, Seung-kyung, "Women Workers and the Labor Movement in South Korea,"
in Frances Abrahamer Rothstein and Michael L. Blim (eds.) Anthropology and
the Global Factory: Studies of the New Industrialization in the Late
Twentieth Century. New York: Bergin and Garvey, 1992, pp. 220-237.
Zaman, Habiba, "Labour Rights, Networking, and Empowerment: Mobilizing Garment Workers in Bangladesh," Marilyn Porter and Ellen Judd, (eds.) Feminists Doing Development. London: Zed Books, 1999, pp. 158-171.
Recommended
Young, Gay, "Gender Identification and Working-Class Solidarity Among
Maquiladora Workers in Ciudad, Juarez: Stereotypes and Realities," in
Vicki Ruiz and Susan Tiano (eds.) Women on the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Boulder: Westview, 1990, pp. 105-128.
Safa, Helen, "Class Consciousness Among Working-Class Women in Latin
America: Puerto Rico," in June Nash and Helen Safa (eds.) Sex and Class
in Latin America. New York: Bergin, 1980, pp. 69-85.
Kaplan, Temma, "Female Consciousness and Collective Action: The Case of
Barcelona, 1910-1918," Signs, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1982, pp. 545-566.
Staudt, Kathleen, "Programming Women's Empowerment: A Case from Northern
Mexico," in Vicki Ruiz and Susan Tiano (eds.) Women on the U.S.-Mexico
Border. Boulder: Westview, 1990, pp. 155-173.
Week 14 Politics and the State: Repression, Mobilization, and Transformation
West, Guida and Rhoda Lois Blumberg, "Reconstructing Social Protest from a
Feminist Perspective,' in their Women and Social Protest. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 3-36.
Peterson, V. Spike and Anne Runyan, "The Politics of Resistance: Women
as Nonstate, Antistate, and Transstate Actors," in their Global Gender
Issues. Boulder: Westview, 1993, pp. 113-148.
Papanek, Hanna, "The Ideal Woman and the Ideal Society: Control and Autonomy in the Construction of Identity," in Valentine Moghadam (ed.) Identity Politics and Women. Boulder: Westview, 1994, pp. 42-75.
Safa, Helen, "Women's Social Movements in Latin America," Gender & Society, Vol. 4, No. 3, (September 1990) pp. 354-369.
Lobao, Linda, Women in Revolutionary Movements: Changing Patterns of
Latin American Guerrilla Struggle," Guida West and Rhoda Lois Blumberg,
(eds.) Women and Social Protest. New York: Oxford University Press,
1990, pp. 180-204.
Recommended
Tilly, Luise, "Paths of Proletarianization: Organization of Production,
Sexual Division of Labor, and Women's Collective Action," Signs, Vol. 1,
No. 2 (1981) pp. 400-417.
del Carmen Feijoo, Maria, "The Challenge of Constructing Civilian Peace:
Women and Democracy in Argentina," in Jane Jaquette (ed.) The Women's
Movement in Latin America: Feminism and the Transition to Democracy."
Boulder: Westview, 1991, pp. 72-94.
Miller, Francesca, "The Suffrage Movement in Latin America," in Gertrude
Yeager (ed.) Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Women in Latin
American History. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1994, pp. 157-176.
Margolis, Diane Rothbard, "Women's Movements Around the World: Cross-
Cultural Comparisons," Gender & Society, Vol 7, No. 3 (September 1993)
pp. 379-399.
Yuval-Davis, "Identity Politics and Women's Ethnicity," in Valentine
Moghadam (ed.) Identity Politics and Women. Boulder: Westview, 1994,
pp. 408-424.
Hale, Sondra, "Gender, Religious Identity, and Political Mobilization in
the Sudan, in Valentine Moghadam (ed.) Identity Politics and Women.
Boulder: Westview, 1994, pp. 145-166.
Jaquette, Jane, "Introduction," to Jane Jaquette (ed.) The Women's
Movement in Latin America: Feminism and the Transition to Democracy."
Boulder: Westview, 1991, pp. 1-17.
Chaney, Elsa, "The Mobilization of Women in Allende's Chile" in J.
Jaquette (ed.) Women in Politics. New York: Wiley, 1974, pp. 267-280.
Seidman, Gay, "Gendered Citizenship: South Africa’s Democratic Transition and the Construction of a Gendered State," Gender & Society, Vol. 13, No. 3 (June 1999) pp. 287-307.
Prates, Suzana, "Organizations for Domestic Workers in Montevideo:
Reinforcing Marginality," in Elsa Chaney and Mary Garcia Castro (eds.)
Muchachas No More: Household Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989, pp. 271-290.
Seitz, Barbara, "From Home to Street: Women and Revolution in Nicaragua,"
in Gertrude Yeager (ed.) Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Women
in Latin American History. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources,
1994, pp. 197-210.
Trager, Lillian and Clara Osinulu, "New Women's Organizations in Nigeria:
One Response to Structural Adjustment," in Christina Gladwin (ed.)
Structural Adjustment and African Women Workers. Gainsville: University
of Florida Press, 1991, pp. 339-357.
Castro, Daniel, "'War is Our Daily Life': Women's Participation in
Sendero Luminoso," in Gertrude Yeager (ed.) Confronting Change,
Challenging Tradition: Women in Latin American History. Wilmington,
Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1994, pp. 219-225.
Women and Social Movements—various articles, Gender & Society, Vol. 12, No. 6 (December 1998).