FALL 2002
230-203: GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT
Instructor: Hatice Deniz Yükseker e-mail: deniz@jhu.edu
Meetings: Thursdays:
Friday Sections:
e-mail: deniz@jhu.edu
Office: 532 Mergenthaler Hall and 203 The Greenhouse
Office Hours: Wednesdays:
TA: Çetin Eren
Office: … Mergenthaler
Office Hours:
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will first
introduce students to the field of development. Then, we will discuss gender
issues within the process of economic development. Our geographical focus will
be on
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: The course is based on lectures on Thursdays and more detailed discussion of the readings in two sections on Fridays. Students must attend regularly and do weekly readings before class each week. You should come to the sections on Friday with specific discussion questions based on the readings. (1) Each student will write 6 reading reviews (2 double-spaced pages) over the semester and turn these in on the day that reading piece is discussed. (The reading reviews should contain a brief summary of the main points of one of the assigned readings and your comments on it. You can choose readings from any week, provided that 3 reviews be written before the midterm exam.) (2) You will also write 1-2-page (double-spaced) reviews of the films shown in class. (3) There will also be a research assignment. You will write a 3-page (double-spaced) paper, critically assessing a journalistic piece (that you will research in the library or on the internet) in terms of issues and concepts discussed in the course. This is due on October 11. (4) There will be an in-class midterm exam on October 18.
(5) Take-home finals (10 double-spaced pages) are due on December 16.
The breakup of grading is as follows:
30 percent: all reviews
20 percent: in-class midterm exam
10 percent: assignment
30 percent: take-home final exam
10 percent: class participation (regular attendance, active participation in discussions)
Note on plagiarism: Any use of another person's ideas or words, taken directly or
paraphrased, without citing the source is plagiarism. This includes taking material from the Internet without citing the
website. Plagiarism and other forms of cheating will not be tolerated.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES:
All reading materials are on reserve. The
following books are also on sale at the
* The Women, Gender and Development Reader (Viswanathan et al.) (1997)
*Development and Social Change. A Global Perspective. (McMichael) (2000-2nd edition)
*Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist
Discipline. Factory Women in
*Factory Daughters. Gender, Household Dynamics and Rural Industrialization in Java (Wolf) (1992)
*Making a Living. Changing Livelihoods
in Rural
*The Kitchen Spoon’s Handle:
Transnationalism and Migration in
COURSE OUTLINE:
WEEK ONE. Sept. 5-6: INTRODUCTION
WEEK TWO. Sept. 12-13: THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AND ITS DEMISE
Thursday: Development and Social Change: Part I: pp. 1-76 (skim through case studies)
Friday: Development and Social Change: Part II: pp. 79-100 and 113-133. Part III: pp. 149-164 (skim through case studies)
WEEK THREE. Sept. 19-20: WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT
Women, Gender and Development Reader: pp. 17-32 and 33-54 (Tinker, Beneria and Sen, Young); and pp.
79-86 (Mohanty)
Friday: Discussion
WEEK FOUR. Sept. 26-27: WOMEN, NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
WGD Reader:
pp. 54-75 (Braidotti et al., Shiva, Agarwal); and pp. 284-309 (Dalsimer
and Nisonoff, Hartmann,
Friday: Discussion
WEEK FIVE. Oct. 3-4: PROLETARIANIZATION AND CHANGING GENDER RELATIONS: A CASE
FROM
Spirits of Resistance: Chapter 1: pp. 1-10, Chapters 3-6: pp. 37-137
Friday: Discussion
WEEK SIX. Oct. 10-11:
Spirits of Resistance: Chapters 7-9: pp. 141-213.
Friday: Documentary on the Global Factory
Assignments are due on Friday.
WEEK SEVEN. Oct. 17-18:
Thursday: Review
Friday: In-class midterm exam
WEEK EIGHT. Oct. 24-25: RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION AND GENDER RELATIONS IN THE HOUSEHOLD: A CASE FROM JAVA
Factory Daughters: Introduction and Chapter 1: pp. 1-29, Chapters 3, 6, 7: pp. 54-72 and 137-178
Friday: Discussion
WEEK NINE. Oct.31-Nov.1: JAVA (Cont’d)
Friday: Guest Lecture
WEEK TEN. Nov. 7-8: GENDER RELATIONS AND RURAL POVERTY IN
Making a Living: Introduction and Part I: pp. 1-98
Friday: Discussion
WEEK ELEVEN. Nov. 14-15: WOMEN IN MIGRATION
The Kitchen Spoon’s Handle. Introduction, chapters 1, 4, 5 (pp. 1-47 and 99-150)
WEEK TWELVE. Nov. 21-22: WOMEN IN MIGRATION (cont’d)
The Kitchen Spoon’s Handle. Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9 (pp. 151-231)
WEEK THIRTEEN. Dec. 5-6: GENDER AND GLOBALIZATION
Freeman. (2001). “Is Local: Global as Feminine: Masculine? Rethinking the Gender of Globalization,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol.26, no.4 (folder)
Salzinger. (1997). “From
High Heels to Swathed Bodies: Gendered Meanings under Production in
Friday: Review