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Course schedule and readings
The readings for the course consist of a series of scholarly articles and excerpts from books and international development agency reports. There is no textbook for the course. All the readings on the syllabus are available in electronic form on the course website on Canvas.

The outlines for each class meeting will provide up-to-date information on the schedule.

January 6: Introduction and Overview

 * Course objectives, themes, and expectations
 * The Impact of Wikipedia
 * Gender and the Life Cycle and The Double Dividend of Gender Equality
 * UNDP, Millennium Development Goals

January 8: Gender Inequalities: An Introduction

 * Sen, Amartya, 2001. “Many Faces of Gender Inequality,” Frontline, India’s National Magazine, 18 (22): 1-17.
 * The World Bank. 2012. Gender Equality and Development: World Development Report 2012. Washington, D.C: The World Bank. Overview, pp. 1–6
 * UNICEF. 2007. “A Call for Equality” in The State of the World’s Children New York: UNICEF pp. 1-2, 4-5 Figures 1.1 to 1.5

January 13 and 15: 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.
 * Nussbaum, Martha. 2004. “Promoting Women’s Capabilities” in Lourdes Beneria and Savitri Bisnath, eds. Global Tensions, Routledge: 241-256.
 * Power, Marilyn. 2004. “Social Provisioning as a Starting Point for Feminist Economics.” Feminist Economics 10(3): 3-8, 15.

January 22: Capability Deprivations: Life, Bodily Health, Bodily Integrity

 * Appiah, Kwame Anthony. 2010. “Wars Against Women,” in The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen.  New York: W.W. Norton and Co., Chapter 4, pp. 137–72.
 * Stillwaggon, Eileen. 2008. “Race, Sex, and the Neglected Risks for Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa” Feminist Economics 14(4): 67–86.

January 27 and 29: From WID to GAD

 * Beneria, Berik, and Floro Gender, Development and Globalization Ch. 1 (notes)
 * Boserup, Ester, 1970. Woman’s Role in Economic Development, Allen & Unwin, Chs. 1 & 3.
 * Beneria, Lourdes and Gita Sen, 1981. “Accumulation, Reproduction, and Women’s Role in Economic Development Revisited” Signs 3 (2) (excerpt)

February 3 Postmodern Critique and Responses

 * 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)
 * 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.

February 5: Measuring Gender Inequality

 * Beneria, Berik, and Floro, Gender, Development and Globalization Ch. 1 (notes)
 * Sen, Amartya, 1999. “The Ends and Means of Development” in A.K. Sen, Development as Freedom, Knopf: 43-51.
 * UNDP, Human Development Report 2013 Table 1 (pp. 144-147)

February 10, 12 and 19: Unpaid Work: Conceptual and Measurement Issues

 * Film: Who is Counting? (1995) 52 mins.
 * Bjornholt, Margunn and Ailsa McKay. 2014. Counting on Marilyn Waring:New Advances in Feminist Economics, Demeter Press, 2014. (selected readings)
 * Beneria, Berik, and Floro, Gender, Development and Globalization Ch. 5 (notes)

February 26: Global Feminization of Labor

 * Standing, Guy. 1999. “Global Feminization through Flexible Labor: A Theme Revisited,” World Development 27 (3): 583-586.
 * Hewitson, Gillian. 2013. “The commodified womb, neoliberalism and the white heteronormative family” working paper.
 * Beneria, Berik, and Floro, Gender, Development and Globalization Ch. 3 (notes)
 * 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 214-216; 219-221.
 * Seguino, Stephanie. 1997. “Gender Wage Inequality and Export-Led Growth in South Korea,” Journal of Development Studies 34 (2): 102-132.

March 3 and 5: Structural Adjustment and Neoliberal Macroeconomic Policies

 * Beneria, Berik, and Floro, Gender, Development and Globalization Ch. 3 (notes)
 * Elson, Diane and Nilüfer Çağatay. 2000. “The Social Content of Macroeconomic Policies” in World Development, 28 (7): 1354-1358, 1360-1361.
 * Film: Rich World, Poor Women (2003) (segment)
 * Liu, Jie-yu. 2007. “Gender Dynamics and Redundancy in Urban China” Feminist Economics 13 (3-4): 125-158.

March 17: Gender and the Global Economic Crisis

 * Elson, Diane. 2010. “Gender and the Global Economic Crisis in Developing Countries: A framework for analysis” Gender&Development 18(2): 201-212.
 * Antonopoulos, Rania. 2013. Gender Perspectives and Gender Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis Routledge (selected readings)

March 19 and 24: Working Conditions in Global Factories

 * Film: China Blue (2005) 87 mins.
 * Pun Ngai, 2007. “Gendering the Dormitory Labor System: Production, Reproduction and Migrant Labor in South China” Feminist Economics 13 (3-4): 239-258.
 * 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.

March 31: Gender and Poverty

 * Chant, Sylvia. 2008. “The ‘Feminization of Poverty’ and the ‘Feminization’ of Anti-poverty Programmes: Room for Revision?” Journal of Development Studies, 44(2).
 * Beneria, Berik, and Floro, Gender, Development and Globalization Ch.4&5 (notes)

April 2 and 7: International Migration and Trafficking

 * Film: Letters from the Other Side (2006)
 * Jason de Parle, “A Good Provider is One Who Leaves” New York Times, April 22, 2007.
 * Beneria, Lourdes. 2008. “The Crisis of Care, International Migration and Public Policy,” Feminist Economics, 14(3): 8-12.
 * Rao, Smriti, and Christina Parenti. 2012. Understanding Human Trafficking Origin: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis.” Feminist Economics 18(2): 231-263.
 * Rosewarne, Stuart. 2012. “Temporary International Labor Migration and Development in South and Southeast Asia” Feminist Economics 18(2): 63-90.

April 9: Access to Credit

 * Karim, Lamia. 2008. “Demystifying Microcredit” Cultural Dynamics 20(5)
 * Christa Wichterich, 2012. “The Other Financial Crisis: Growth and Crash of the Microfinance Sector in India” Development 55(3): 406-412.

April 14: Conditional Cash Transfers

 * Latapí, Augustin Escobar and Mercedes Gonzales de la Rocha. 2009. “Girls, mothers, and poverty reduction in Mexico: Evaluating Progresa – Oportunidades,” in Shahra Razavi (ed), The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization: Towards "Embedded Liberalism"? London and New York: Routledge: 267-289.
 * Patel, Leila and Tessa Hochfeld. 2011. “It Buys Food but Does it Change Gender Relations? Child Support Grants in Soweto, South Africa” Gender and Development 19(2): 229-240.

April 16: Control over Assets

 * Panda, Pradeep and Bina Agarwal. 2005. “Marital Violence, Human Development, and Women’s Property Status in India,” World Development 33 (5): 823-826; 846-847; and Tables 1-4.
 * Deere, Carmen Diana, Abena Oduro, Hema Swaminathan and Cheryl Doss. 2013. “Property Rights and the Gender Distribution of Wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India” Journal of Economic Inequality
 * Deere, Carmen Diana, Gina E. Alvarado, and Jennifer Twyman. 2012. “Gender inequality in Asset Ownership in Latin America” Development and Change 43(2): 505-530.

April 21: Human Rights Approach to Economic Wellbeing

 * Balakrishnan, Radhika and Diane Elson (eds). 2011. Economic Policy and Human Rights: Holding Governments to Account, Zed Books (introduction).

April 23 Engendering Development Policies and Conclusions

 * Beneria, Berik, and Floro, Gender, Development and Globalization Ch. 6 (notes)

April 28: Wikipedia Final Contribution Due
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