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Gender Inequalities: An Introduction

 * Sen, Amartya, 2001. “Many Faces of Gender Inequality,” Frontline, India’s National Magazine, 18 (22): 1-17.
 * 1) UNICEF. 2007. “A Call for Equality” in The State of the World’s Children New York: UNICEF pp. 1-2, 4-5, 8, Figures 1.1 to 1.5.

Feminist Economics: A Thematic Overview

 * Sen, Amartya. 1990. “Gender and Cooperative Conflicts” in Irene Tinker (ed.) Persistent Inequalities, pp. 123-128, 131-140, 144-149, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 * 1) Nussbaum, Martha. 2004. “Promoting Women’s Capabilities” in Lourdes Beneria and Savitri Bisnath, eds. Global Tensions, Routledge: 241-256.
 * 2) Power, Marilyn. 2004. “Social Provisioning as a Starting Point for Feminist Economics.” Feminist Economics 10(3): 3-8, 15, 8-11.

History of Thought of Gender, Development And Globalization

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From WID to GAD

 * 1) Razavi, Shahra and Carol Miller. 1995. From WID to GAD: Conceptual Shifts in the Women and Development Discourse, UNRISD Occasional Paper #1: 2-11.
 * 2) Boserup, Ester, 1970. Woman’s Role in Economic Development, Allen & Unwin, Chs. 1 & 3.
 * 3) Beneria, Lourdes and Gita Sen, 1981. “Accumulation, Reproduction, and Women’s Role in Economic Development Revisited” Signs 3 (2) (excerpt)

Postmodern Critique and Responses

 * 1) Mohanty, Chandra. 1991. “Under Western Eyes” in C. Mohanty, A. Russo, L. Torres, eds., Third World Women and Politics of Feminism, Bloomington: Indiana UP (excerpt)
 * 2) Abu Lughod, Lila. 2002. “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and its Others” American Anthropologist, 104(3): 783-790.
 * 3) Nzomo, Maria. 1995 “Women and Democratization Struggles in Africa: What relevance to Postmodernist Discourse?” Marchand and Jane Parpart eds. Feminism/ Postmodernism/Development, Routledge: 131-41.

Human Development and the Millenium Development Goal 3

 * Sen, Amartya, 1999. “The Ends and Means of Development” in A.K. Sen, Development as Freedom, Knopf: 43-51.
 * 1) UNDP, Human Development Report 2011, Tables 1 & 4.
 * 2) Grown, Caren. 2005. “Answering the Skeptics: Achieving Gender Equality and the Millenium Development Goals.” Development 48 (3): 82-86.

Unpaid Work

 * 1) Film: Who is Counting? (1995) 52 mins.
 * 2) Beneria, Lourdes, 2003. Gender, Development and Globalization: Economics as If All People Mattered. London: Routledge, Chapter 5.
 * 3) Folbre, Nancy. 2006. “Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy.” Journal of Human Development 7(2): 183–199.
 * 4) Himmelweit, Susan. 2002. “Making Visible the Hidden Economy: The Case for Gender-Impact Analysis of Economic Policy.” Feminist Economics 8 (1): 49–70.

GLOBALIZATION AND GENDER INEQUALITIES

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Global Economic Institutions: An Introduction

 * 1) Rakocy et al, eds. 2007. Real World Globalization. A Reader in Economics, Business and Politics, Ch. 4: 99-117.

Global Feminization of Labor

 * 1) Standing, Guy. 1999. “Global Feminization through Flexible Labor: A Theme Revisited,” World Development 27 (3): 583-586.
 * 2) Elson, Diane and Ruth Pearson.1981. “The Subordination of Women and Internationalization of Factory Production” in K.Young et al. Of Marriage and the Market, CSE.

Working Conditions in Global Factories

 * 1) Film: China Blue (2005) 87 mins.
 * 2) Pun Ngai, 2007. “Gendering the Dormitory Labor System: Production, Reproduction and Migrant Labor in South China” Feminist Economics 13 (3-4): 239-258.
 * 3) Fussell, Elizabeth. 2000. “Making Labor More Flexible: The Recomposition of Tijuana’s Maquiladora Female Labor Force,” Feminist Economics, 6(3): 59-80.
 * 4) Kabeer, Naila. 2004. “Globalization, Labor Standards, and Women's Rights: Dilemmas of Collective (In)action in an Interdependent World,” Feminist Economics 10 (1): 3-35.
 * 5) Berik, Günseli and Yana Rodgers. 2010. “The Debate on Labor Standards and International Trade: Lessons from Cambodia and Bangladesh” Journal of International Development 22: 56–85.

Export-led Growth and Trade Liberalization

 * 1) Berik, Günseli and Yana Rodgers, “Engendering Development Strategies and Macroeconomic Policies: What’s Sound and Sensible?” in Günseli Berik, Yana Rodgers, and Ann Zammit, eds., Social Justice and Gender Equality, Routledge: 16-22.
 * 2) Seguino, Stephanie. 1997. “Gender Wage Inequality and Export-Led Growth in South Korea,” Journal of Development Studies 34 (2): 102-132.

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