Woodrow Wilson School
Office: 2N1 Green Hall
Graduate Program Hours: Wed. 11-12
Spring Term 1999
email: curran@princeton.edu
Wednesday, 1-4 pm, Great Hall, Notestein (Canon Club)
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Course Description
This course examines men and women's lives in less developed countries and the impact upon them as a result of development and incorporation into global, economic and political systems. The course begins with theoretical approaches to gender and development, development theory, and feminist critiques. We then turn to how social change (positive or negative development) happens. We will examine in detail issues of production (formal and informal work), reproduction (health, child survival, and fertility), and the family/household nexus (where production and reproduction meet). Woven throughout the course will be themes about 1.) micro and macro processes, perspectives, and levels of analysis and 2.) research methods and policy applications, given a practitioner's structural position. The course will have two applied projects for students to work on. The first is the development of material for a web page, and two internet online discussions, The Gender and Development Policy Network, run through the Woodrow Wilson School. The online discussions will be about: a) gender and globalization, and b) bringing gender into program planning and evaluation. The second project is to assist the new Gender Division of the World Bank in assessing the gender content of Bank projects. This will involve summarizing the gender content of 40-50 projects at the Bank, selecting and analyzing 5 case studies among the projects, and writing an evaluative report for limited circulation within the Bank.
Requirements
- Reading and class participation. This is one of the most important requirements. To facilitate your participation each week two people will be required to provide a one- paragraph summary of each reading and questions for discussion. Every person is expected to participate each week.
- Participation in two projects:
- The Gender and Development Policy Network - you may choose to work on the planning and evaluation discussion group or the gender and globalization discussion group. (two liaison people) You should participate in the two, two week internet discussions organized by the liaisons and members of the GDPN Advisory Council.
- A Gender critique for the Gender Division of the World Bank - provision of project summaries and a report to the Bank.
- Attendance at the Center for Migration and Development Lecture Series held at 4:30pm in Bowl 2 on the following dates: February 11 (Aristide Zolberg), February 25 (Jeffrey Herbst), March 11 (William Robinson), April 9 (Peter Evans), April 15 (Theda Skocpol), and April 29 (Rogers Brubaker).
- Books and Articles. Books and articles are all on reserve in the Woodrow Wilson School library.
- Extra credit: Guidelines for how to do a gender country profile (this can be a group effort).
Course Fulfillment Contract
Weekly Topics and Readings
PART 1: GENDER, DEVELOPMENT AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
February 3 - Introductions and planning for the semester
Leveling the Field: Understanding Social Change and Development
Readings:
Boserup, Ester. 1970. Women's Role in Economic Development
Fernandez Kelly, Patricia M. 1994. "Broadening the Scope: Gender and the Study of International Development." In Kincaid, Douglas and Alejandro Portes (editors) Comparative National Development: Society and Economy in the New Global Order. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. Pp. 143-168.
Portes, Alejandro. 1997. "Neoliberalism and the Sociology of Development." Population and Development Review. 23(2): 229-260
Jaffee, David. 1990. Levels of Socioeconomic Development Theory. New York: Praeger Press.
Kincaid, Douglas and Alejandro Portes (editors). 1994. Comparative National Development: Society and Economy in the New Global Order. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Class Schedule:
1st Hour: Personal introductions, Overview of course and requirements.
2nd Hour: Lecture on Theories of Social Change (Economic, Political and Social) and the Gender Perspective.
3rd Hour: Assignment of liaisons for the World Bank and for the Gender and Development Policy Network, brainstorming of projects and planning, establishing tentative schedule for production of reports and discussion sessions.
What is efficient, equitable, and equal?
Elson, Diane. 1991. "Male bias in the development process: An overview" In Male Bias in the Development Process. Manchester. Just the first half of the chapter, pp. 1-15.
Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia. 1993. "Political Economy and Gender in Latin America: The Emerging Dilemmas." Latin American Program Working Papers, The Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
Moser, Carolyn. Gender Planning and Development Chapter 1
Razavi, Shahrashoub and Carol Miller. 1995. From WID to GAD: Conceptual Shifts in the Women and Development Discourse. Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.
Fyree, Myra Marx. 1990. "Beyond Separate Spheres: Feminism and Family Research." Journal of Marriage and the Family. 52(November): 866-884.
Sen, Gita and Caren Grown. Development, Crises and Alternative Visions.
Tinker, Irene. Persistent Inequalities Chapter 1 and 3.
Class Schedule:
First hour: Lecture on efficiency, equity and equality, multilevel and multisectoral issues
Second hour: Discussion of Reading (Discussants: Estela and Tyler)
- Reading Summaries
Third hour: Brainstorming and Project Planning - Heather Graham from Gender and Development Policy Network, Finalize schedule and planning horizon for both projects.
February 12 or 16 trip to Washington, D.C. with liasons, Curran, and other class members to The World Bank to meet Bamberger, Fort, and other representatives and to pick up materials.
Globalization of feminism and human rights? Who is to say what is right?
Goetz, Anne Marie. 1991. "Feminism and the claim to know: Contradictions in feminist approaches to women in development." Gender and International Relations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pp. 133-155.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 1991. "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses." In Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Pp. 51-80.
Persistent Inequalities. Chapter 5.
Whelan, Daniel. 1998. "Recasting WID: A Human Rights Approach."
International Center for Research on Women, Working Paper No. 6. September.
Dixon-Mueller, Ruth. 1993. Chapter 1 in Population Policy and Women's
Reproductive Rights. New York: Praeger Press.
Papart, Jane. 1993. "Who is the Other? a Post Modern Critique of Women and Development Theory and Practice." Development and Change 24(3): 439-464.
Class Schedule:
1st hour: Lecture on globalization of feminism/human rights
2nd hour: discussion of readings (Discussants: Catherine, Laurie, marion, Miyuki)
3rd hour: presentation of initial ideas concerning gender and globalization discussion, Distribution of Projects from the World Bank.
PART 2: DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE VIEWED WITH A GENDER LENSE
- Production
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Income Sources
Katz, Elizabeth. 1995. "Gender and Trade Within the Household: Observations from Rural Guatemala." World Development 23(2): 327-342.
Moser, Caroline. Gender Planning and Development Chapter 2
Summerfield, Gale. 1997. "Economic Transition in China and Vietnam: Crossing the poverty line is just the first for women and their families." Review of Social Economy. 55(2): 201-223.
Tinker, Irene. 1997. "Family Survival in an Urbanizing World." Review of Social Economy. 55(2) 251-260.
Dwyer and Bruce. A Home Divided: Women and Income in the Third World. Pp. 1-19, 143-154, 248-264.
Tinker, Irene. Persistent Inequalities. Chapters 8, 9, 10.
Class Schedule:
1st hour: lecture on Families, Households, and Resource Allocation (causes and consequences - who earns, who spends and who gets)
2nd hour: discussion of readings (Discussants: Earl, Preston, Sandy)
3rd hour: discussion gender summaries for the Bank, what to look for, how to write one, and planning for report.
Argawal, Bina. 1994. "Gender and Command Over Property: A Critical Gap in Economic Analysis and Policy in South Asia." World Development 22 (10): 1455-1478.
Jackson, Cecile. 1993. "Environmentalisms and Gender Interests in the Third World." Development and Change. 24: 649-677.
Rocheleau, Dianne and David Edmunds. 1997. "Women, Men and Trees: Gender, Power and Property in Forest and Agrarian Landscapes." World Development 25 (8): 1351-1371.
Thomas-Slayter, Barbara and Dianne E. Rocheleau. 1995. "Research frontiers at the nexus of gender, environment, and development: Linking Household Community, and Ecosystem." In Rita S. Gallin, Anne Ferguson, and Janice Harper (editors) The Women and International Development Annual, Volume 4. Boulder CO: Westview Press. Pp. 80-116.
Argawal, Bina. "Gender Relations and Food Security: Coping with Seasonality, Drought, and Famine in South Asia." In Unequal Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and Women's Work. Pp. 181-218.
Carney, Judith A. 1996. "Converting the Wetlands, Engendering the Environment: The intersection of gender with agrarian change in Gambia." In Richard Peet and Michael Watts (editors), Liberation Ecologies New York: Routledge Press. Pp. 165-187.
Hecht, Susanna. 1985. "Women and the Latin American Livestock Sector." In Jamie Monson and Marion Kalb (editors) Women as Food Producers in Developing Countries . Pp. 51-69.
Leach, Melissa. 1992. "Women's Crops in Women's Spaces: Gender relations in Mende rice farming." In Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin (editors) Bush base: Forest farm New York: Routledge Press. Pp. 76-96.
Zwarteveen, Margreet Z. 1997. "Water: From Basic Need to Commodity: A Discussion on Gender and Water Rights in the Context of Irrigation." World Development. 25(8): 1335-1349.
Class Schedule:
1st hour: Guest lecture (Dr. Agnes Quisumbing, International Food Policy Research Institute))
2nd hour: Discussion of readings (Discussants: Maha and Rudolph)
3rd hour: Gender and Development Policy Network Planning, program planning and evaluation (Kirsten Moore)
Collins, Jane. 1993. "Gender, Contracts and Wage Work: Agricultural Restructuring in Brazil's Sao Francisco Valley." Development and Change 24:Pp.53-82.
Malhotra, Anju and Deborah DeGraff. 1997. "Entry Versus Success in the Labor Force: Young Women's Employment in Sri Lanka." World Development 25(3): 370-394.
Ward, Kathryn (editor). 1990. Women Workers and Global Restructuring. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, Cornell University. Chapters 1, 2 3, 4 and 5.
Scott, Alison MacEwen. 1991. "Informal sector or female sector? Gender bias in urban labor market models." In: Male Bias in the Development Process. Manchester.
Benaria, Lourdes and Shelley Feldman. Unequal Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and Women's Work
Tinker, Irene. Persistent Inequalities. Chapter 7
Cagatay, N. and S. Ozler. 1995. "Feminization of the Labor Force: The Effects of Long-Term Development and Structural Adjustment." World Development 23(11): 1883-1894.
Haddad, Lawrence, Lynn R. Brown, Andrea Richter, and Lisa Smith. 1995. "The Gender Dimensions of Economic Adjustment Policies: Potential Interactions and Evidence to Date." World Development 23 (6): 881-896.
Pyle, Jean. 1997. "Women, the Family and Economic Restructuring: The Singapore Model." Review of Social Economy. 55(2):215-223.
Tanski, Janet. 1994. "The Impact of Crisis, Stabilization, and Structural Adjustment on Women in Lima, Peru." World Development 22(11):1627-1642.
Howes, C. and A. Singh. 1995. "Long-Term Trends in the World Economy: The Gender Dimension." World Development 23(11): 1895-1912.
A Home Divided. 120-142, 173-194, 229-247
Class Schedule
1st hour: Dr. Debra Donahoe-Re: measuring work
2nd hour: Discussion of readings (Discussants: Chris, Helene, Stela, Preston)
3rd hour: Discussion of agriculture summaries and chapter ideas.
Elson, Diane. 1995. "Household responses to stabilisation and structural adjustment: Male bias at the micro level." In Male Bias in the Development Process. New York: Manchester University Press.
Fernandez Kelly, Patricia M. and Saskia Sassen. 1995. "Recasting Women in the Global Economy: Internationalization and Changing Definitions of Gender." In Bose, Christine E. and Edna Acosta-Belen (editors) Women in the Latin American Development Process. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Pp. 99-124.
Ghorayshi, Parvin and Clarie Belanger. 1996. Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries: A Global Perspective. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Pp. 40-147.
Joekes, Susan and Ann Weston. 1994. Women and the New Trade Agenda. New York: United Nations Development Fund for Women.
Raijman, Rebeca and Moshe Semyonov. 1997. "Gender, Ethnicity and Immigration: Double Disadvantage and Triple Disadvantage among Recent Immigrant Women in the Israeli Labor Market." Gender and Society. 11(1):108-125.
Bilsborrow, Richard. 1993. "Internal Migration of Women in Developing Countries: An Overview." Internal Migration of Women in Developing Countries: Proceedings of the United Nations Expert Meeting on the Feminization of Internal Migration, October 1991. New York: United Nations. Pp. 1-17.
Special Issue of World Development 23 (11).
Constable, Nicole. 1997. Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipina Workers. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Class Schedule:
1st hour: The New Economic Order
2nd hour: Discussion of readings and lecture (Discussants: Maritza, Miyuki, Sandra, Tyler)
3rd hour: Discussion of program planning and evaluation (both World Bank and Gender network)-online discussion on gender and globalization begins for two weeks
B. Reproduction
Greenhalgh, Susan and Jiali Li. 1995. "Engendering Reproductive Policy and Practice in Peasant China: For a Feminist Demography of Reproduction." SIGNS 20(3):601-639.
Harpending, H.C. and R. Pennington. 1991. "Age Structure and Sex-Biased Mortality among Herero Pastoralists." Human Biology. 63(3): 329-353.
Heise, Lori, Kirsten Moore, and Nahid Toubia. 1995. Sexual Coercion and Reproductive Health: A Focus on Research. New York: The Population Council.
Petchesky, Rosalind. 1998. Negotiating Reproductive Rights. New York: International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group. (selections)
Santow, Gigi. 1995. "Social Roles and Physical Health: The Case of Female Disadvantage in Poor Countries." Social Science Medicine. 40 (2): 147-161.
Dixon-Mueller, Ruth. 1993. Population Policy and Women's Reproductive Rights. New York: Praeger Press.
Class Schedule:
1st hour: Dr. Denise Roth: Generalizations, Gender and Reproductive Health
2nd hour: Discussion of readings (Discussants: Claire, Denise, and Maha)
3rd hour: Presentation of summaries and sector chapter (either multisectoral or infrastructure)
Cassels, A. 1995. Health Sector Reform: Key Issues in Less Developed Countries. Journal of International Development. 7(3): 329-347.
Frenk, J. 1994. Dimensions of Health System Reform. Health Policy. 27:19-34.
Long, Lynellyn D. and E. Maxine Ankrah. 1996. Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: An International Perspective. Pp. 297-396.
UNAIDS/WHO. 1998 Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic. New York: United Nations Press.
Class Schedule:
1st hour: Melissa Huang, "Integration of Disease Control to Health Sector Reform: The Case of HIV/AIDS"
2nd hour: Discussion of lecture and readings (Discussants: Gelvina and Maha)
3rd hour: Case study presentation. Beginning of online program planning and evaluation discussion.
April 1st Discussion - Health sector summaries and initial draft of chapter for World Bank.
Knodel, John, and Gavin W. Jones. 1996. "Post-Cairo Population Policy: Does Promoting Girls' Schooling Miss the Mark?" Population and Development Review 22(4): 683-702.
Bledsoe, Carolyn, John Casterline, Jennifer A. Johnson-Kuhn, and John Haaga (editors). 1999. Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility in the Developing World. Washington, D.C.: The National Research Council. (selections)
Class Schedule:
1st hour: Lecture on the globalization of education - the politics and consequences of empowerment.
2nd hour: Discussion of readings (Discussants: Claire, Chris, Helene, Gelvina, and Sondra)
3rd hour: Presentation of education summaries and 1st draft of chapter. Presentation of summary of online discussion of gender and globalization.
PART 3: GENDER, THE "DOING" OF DEVELOPMENT, AND THE "STATE"
Cohen, Monique. 1997. "A Road Map for Measuring Development Impact: A woman's and family perspective." Review of Social Economy 55(2): 243-249.
SEEDS 2: Supporting women's work around the world. 1995. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York.
Khandker, Shahidur, Baqui Khalily, and Zahed Khan. 1995. "Grameen Bank: Performance and Sustainability." World Bank Discussion Papers.
Class Schedule:
1st hour: Lecture
2nd hour: Discussion (Discussants: Laurie, Rudolf, and Tyler)
3rd hour: Presentation of multisectoral or infrastructure summaries and chapter.
Kardum, Nuket. 1991. Bringing Women In: Women's Issues in International Development Programs.
Cooper, Barbara. 1995. "The Politics of Difference and Women's Associations in Niger: Of "Prostitutes," the Public, and Politics." SIGNS 20(4):851-882.
Lind, Amy. 1997. "Gender, Development and Urban Social Change: Women's Community Action in Global Cities." World Development. 25(8): 1205-1223.
MacLeod, Arlene Elowe. 1992. "Hegemonic Relations and Gender Resistance: The New Veiling as Accomodating Protest in Cairo." SIGNS 17(3): 533-557.
Gender Planning and Development. Chapters 3 and 4, 9
Persistent Inequalities. Chapters 11-15.
Class Schedule:
1st hour: lecture and discussion
2nd hour: discussion and presentation of program planning and evaluation chapter (Discussants: Catherine, Earl, Maritza, and Sandy)
Class Schedule:
Draft presentation of report - attendance of Gender and Development Policy Network Advisory Council.
