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Gender, Power, and International Development

Undergraduate · Historical course

Fall 2003

Topics

  • Defining “Development”
  • The Colonial Legacy
  • The Colonial Legacy (cont.)
  • Colonial Images of “Native” Women and Men
  • Film: _First Contact _ Colonial Transformations of Gender
  • Women, Tradition and Modernism
  • Socialism and Post-Colonialism
  • Socialism and Post-Colonialism (cont.)
  • Film: Joe Leahy’s Neighbors
  • Rise of Development Theory
  • Critics from within the Economic Frame
  • Film: Our Friends at the Bank
  • Development and Daily Life
  • Development and Daily Life (cont.)
  • Development and Bureaucracy
  • Knowledge and the Environment
  • The Complexities of Activism
  • Film: Black Harvest
  • The Politics of Wage Labor
  • Drawing the Line Between First and Third Worlds?
  • Issues of Health
  • Issues of Health (cont.)
  • Film: Celso and Cora
  • Thinking More About Gender
  • Thinking More About Gender (cont.)

Readings

  • Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood . New York: G. Braziller, 1980. ISBN: 9780807609507.
    Required
  • Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780253214515.
    Required
  • de Chungara, Domitila. Let Me Speak! New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780853454458.
    Required
  • Gutmann, Matthew. The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780520202368.
    Required
  • Farmer, Paul. Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780520229136.
    Required
  • Wolf, Diane. Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780520070721.
    Required
  • SES #: 2 · TOPICS: The Colonial Legacy · READINGS: Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 3 · TOPICS: The Colonial Legacy (cont.) · READINGS: Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. (cont.)
    Reading assignment
  • Hobsbawm, Eric. “The Age of Empire.” Chapter 3 in The Age of Empire. Pantheon, 1987. ISBN: 9780394563190.
    Listed reading
  • Stoler, Ann Laura. “Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power, Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia.” In Gender / Sexuality Reader, Culture, History, Political Economy . Edited by Roger N. Lancaster, and Micaela di Leonardo. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415910057.
    Listed reading
  • Meyrick, A. S. Selections from Woman in All Lands . (Primary document.) Copyright unknown. 1880.
    Listed reading
  • Film: First Contact
    Listed reading
  • Rothenberg, Diane. “The Mothers of the Nation: Seneca Resistance to Quaker Intervention.” In Women and Colonization . Edited by Mona Etienne and Eleanor Leacock. Bergin & Garvey, 1980. ISBN: 9780030525865.
    Listed reading
  • Allen, Judith Van. " ‘Sitting on a Man’: Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women." Canadian Journal of African Studies 6, 2 (1972): 165-181.
    Listed reading
  • Chatterjee, Partha. “Colonialism, Nationalism and Colonialized Women: the Contest in India.” In American Ethnologist .
    Listed reading
  • Walley, Christine. " ‘Searching for “Voices” ‘: Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debate over Female Genital Operations." Cultural Anthropology 12, 3 (1997): 405-438. New York University, American Anthropological Association.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 7 · TOPICS: Socialism and Post-Colonialism · READINGS: Chungara, Domitila de. Let Me Speak!
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 8 · TOPICS: Socialism and Post-Colonialism (cont.) · READINGS: Chungara, Domitila de. Let Me Speak! (cont.)
    Reading assignment
  • Cooper, Fred, and Randal Packard, eds. “Introduction.” In International Development and the Social Sciences . Edited by Fred Cooper, and Randal Packard. Berkley: University of California Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780520209572.
    Listed reading
  • Nyerere, Julius K. “Socialism and Rural Development.” Chapter 37 in Freedom and Socialism . Dar es Salaam: Oxford University Press, 1990. (African Variations: Julius Nyerere on Development.) ISBN: 9780196440606.
    Listed reading
  • Finnemore, Martha. “Redefining Development at the World Bank.” Chapter 7 in International Development and Social Sciences .
    Listed reading
  • Ake, Claude. “The Development Paradigm and its Politics.” Chapter 1 in Democracy and Development in Africa . Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 1996. ISBN: 9780815702207.
    Listed reading
  • Mitchell, Timothy. “Fixing the Economy.” Cultural Studies 12, 1 (1998): 82-101. Routledge.
    Listed reading
  • Sen, Amartya. “The Economics of Life and Death.” In Scientific American . May 1993.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 12 · TOPICS: Film: Our Friends at the Bank · READINGS: Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780253214515.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 13 · TOPICS: Development and Daily Life · READINGS: Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. (cont.)
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 14 · TOPICS: Development and Daily Life (cont.) · READINGS: Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. (cont.)
    Reading assignment
  • Ferguson, James. “The Bovine Mystique: Power, Property and Livestock in Rural Lesotho.” Man 20: 647-74.
    Listed reading
  • Pigg, Stacey Leigh. “The Credible and the Credulous: The Question of ‘Villagers’ Beliefs’ in Nepal.” Cultural Anthropology 2, 2 (1996): 160-201.
    Listed reading
  • Gupta, Akhil. “Indigenous Knowledges: Ecology.” In Postcolonial Developments . Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780822322139.
    Listed reading
  • Agarwal, Bina. “Development and Environment: ‘The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India’.” Feminist Studies 18, 1 (Spring 1992).
    Listed reading
  • Walley, Christine J. " ‘They Scorn Us Because We Are Uneducated’: Knowledge and Power in a Tanzanian Marine Park." Ethnography 3, 3 (2002): 265-298.
    Listed reading
  • Turner, Terence. “The Social Dynamics of Video Media in an Indigenous Society: The Cultural Meaning and the Personal Politics of Video-Making in Kayapo Communities.” Visual Anthropology Review 7, 2 (Fall 1991).
    Listed reading
  • Hodgson, Dorothy. Precarious Alliances: The Cultural Politics and Structural Predicaments of the Indigenous Rights Movement in Tanzania.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 19 · TOPICS: The Politics of Wage Labor · READINGS: Wolf, Diane. Selections from Factory Daughters.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 20 · TOPICS: Drawing the Line Between First and Third Worlds? · READINGS: Duncan, Cynthia M. “Blackwell.” Preface and Chapter 1 in Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America . New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780300084566.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 22 · TOPICS: Issues of Health (cont.) · READINGS: Farmer, Paul. Selections from Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues . (cont.)
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 23 · TOPICS: Film: Celso and Cora · READINGS: Farmer, Paul. Selections from Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues . (cont.)
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 24 · TOPICS: Thinking More About Gender · READINGS: Gutmann, Matthew. Selections from The Meanings of Macho.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 25 · TOPICS: Thinking More About Gender (cont.) · READINGS: Gutmann, Matthew. Selections from The Meanings of Macho. (cont.)
    Reading assignment
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