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MA GENDER & DEVELOPMENT
Title of Course:
Gender Analysis and Theoretical Perspectives
Code:
916M9
Level of credits:
30 M
Term:
Autumn 2009
Session 1:
Gender and Sex: Biology and Culture
Essential reading
Ortner, S. (1974) ―Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?‖ in M.Rosaldo and L. Lamphere
(eds.), Women, Culture and Society, Stanford University Press, pp. 67-88.
Moore, H.L. (1988) Feminism and Anthropology, Ch.2, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 12-41.
Baden, S. and Goetz, A (1998) ‗Who Needs [Sex] when you can have [Gender]?‘ in C
Jackson and R Pearson (eds.) Feminist Visions of Development, London: Routledge
Supplementary reading
Kimmel M. 2000 The Gendered Society. Introduction and Chapters 1, 2 and 4.
Hollway, W. (1984) 'Gender difference and the production of subjectivity', in Helen Crowley and
Susan Himmelweit (eds.) Knowing Women, p240 - 275, Oxford: Polity.
Weston, Kath. 2002. Ch. 1 "What the Cat Dragged In: Gender Studies Today—An Elegy and
an Introduction," and "Ch. 5. The Global Economy Next Time: When Genders are Not
Enough", in Gender in Realtime, New York: Routledge.
Nicholson, L. (1994) ‗Interpreting Gender‘, in Signs, 20:1
Butler, J. (1990) Gender Trouble, London: Routledge, esp. pages 1-25.
Di Leonardo, M. (1991), ‗Gender, Culture and Political Economy: Feminist Anthropology in
Historical Perspective‘ in Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge, Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press.
Parpart, J and Marchand, M. (1995), ‗Exploding the canon: An introduction/conclusion‘, in
Marchand, M. and Parpart, J, (eds) (1995), Feminism/Postmodernism/Development,
Routledge: New York.
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Pratt, M B (1992[1988]) 'Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart', in Knowing Women, eds. Helen Crowley
and Susan Himmelweit, Oxford: Polity, p323-333.
Moi, T. (1989) 'Feminist, female, feminine', in Catherine Belsey and Jane Moore (eds.) The
Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism, London: Macmillan,
p117-132.
Pearson, R. and Jackson, C. (1998), ‗Introduction: Interrogating development: feminism,
gender and policy, in Jackson, C. and Pearson, R (eds.) Feminist Visions of Development:
gender analysis and policy, Routledge: London
Scott, J. (1989) 'Gender: A useful category of historical analysis', in Elizabeth Weed, Coming to
Terms: Feminism, Theory, Politics, p81-100.
Townsend, J. (1993) ‗Gender Studies: Whose agenda?‘ in Schurman, F. Beyond the
Impasse: New Directions in Development Theory, London: Zed Books
Session 2: Gender as Social Relations
Essential reading
Whitehead, A. (1979) "Some Preliminary Notes on the Subordination of Women", IDS
Bulletin 10.3: 10-13.
Kabeer, N. (1994) ‗Same Realities, Different Windows: Structuralist Perspectives on Women
and Development‘ Ch. 3, pp 40-68 and 'Triple Roles, Gender Roles Social Relations' Ch.10,
pp 264-305 in Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, Verso:
London.
Jackson, S. (1998) ―Feminist Social Theory‖ in S Jackson and J Jones (eds.), Contemporary
Feminist Theories, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 12-33.
Supplementary reading
Evans, Mary. 1997. Introducing Contemporary Feminist Thought. Polity Press.
Evans, Judith. 1995. Feminist Theory Today: An Introduction to Second Wave Feminism.
London: Sage.
Hines, Sally. 2008. ‗Feminist Theories‘. In Introducing Gender and Women’s Studies. Ed.
Diane Richardson and Victoria Robinson. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
R. Pearson A. Whitehead and K. Young 1984 "The Continued Subordination of Women in
the Development Process", Introduction to the Second Edition K. Young et al (eds.), Of
Marriage and the Market, (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London)
Connell, R.W. 1994. ‗Gender Regimes and the Gender Order‘ pp. 29-40. In The Polity
Reader in Gender Studies. Polity Press.
Ostergaard, L. 1992 "Gender" in Gender and Development: A practical Guide Routledge .
Pearson, R 1998 ‗ ‗Nimble fingers‘ revisited: reflections on women and third world
industrialisation in the late 20th century‘ in Jackson, C. and Pearson, R. eds. Feminist Visions
of Development (Routledge and Kegan Paul)
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Kabeer. N 1994 Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought. Chapters
1-4
Connel, R.W. 1994 ' Gender Regimes and the Gender Order' pp 29-40 in The Polity Reader
in Gender Studies, Polity Press.
Mackintosh, M 1981 ‗Gender and Economics: the sexual division of labour and the
subordination of women‘in K.Young et al. eds. Of Marriage and the Market: Women’s
subordination internationally and its lessons (Routledge & Kegan Paul)
D.Elson and R. Pearson 1981 ‗The subordination of women and the internationalisation of
factory production‘ in Young et al. eds. Of Marriage and the Market: Women’s subordination
internationally and its lessons (London: Routledge)
Beneria, L. and M. Roldan. 1987. The Crossroads of Class and Gender. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press.
Session 3: Gender and the Politics of Difference in the Context of Development
Essential reading
Nnaemeka, Obioma. (1998) ‗Mapping African Feminisms‘, adapted version of ‗Introduction:
Reading the Rainbow‘, from Sisterhood, Feminisms and Power: From Africa to the Diaspora.
In A. Cornwall, Readings in Gender in Africa, pp.31-40.
Mohanty, CT. (1991) ‗Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses‘
in CT. Mohanty, A. Russo, A and L. Torres, (eds.), Third World Women and the Politics of
Feminism, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 51-80.
Razavi, S and Miller, C. (1995) From WID to GAD: Conceptual Shifts in the Women and
Development Discourse, UNRISD Discussion Paper, Geneva: UNRISD, pp. 27-32.
Supplementary reading
Rao, Annupana (ed) 2003 ‗Introduction‘ in Gender and Caste (Issues in Contemporary
Indian Feminism Series). London: Macmillan.
Malik, B. 2003 ‗Untouchability and Dalit Women‘s Oppression‘, in Gender and Caste (Issues
in Contemporary Indian Feminism Series). London: Macmillan.
Lorde, A. (1984) 'Age, race, class and sex: women redefining difference', in A. Lorde, Sister
Outsider, Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, p14-23.
Mama, Amina 2007 ‗Critical Connections: feminist studies in African contexts‘. In A.
Cornwall, E. Harrison and A. Whitehead, Feminisms in development: Contradictions,
contestations and challenges. London: Zed Books.
Gandhi, N. 1992 The Issues at Stake: Theory and Practice in the Contemporary Women‘s
movement in India. New Delhi: Kali for Women.
Sen, G. and Grown, C. 1988 Development Crises and Alternative Visions DAWN Third
World Women's Perspectives; chapter 1 and 3. Earthscan
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Amadiume, I. 2000 ‗Introduction‘. In Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism:
African Women Struggle for Culture, Power and Democracy. London: Zed Books.
Oyewumi, O. (ed.) 1997 African women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of
Sisterhood.
Segal, L 1999 Why Feminism: Gender, Psychology and Politics Intro and Chapter 1.
Jackson, C. and Pearson C 1998 Feminist Visions of Development .
Bandarage, A. 1984 Women in Development: Liberalism, Marxism and Marxist-Feminism
Development and Change 15 p 495-515.
Mary Evans (1997) Introducing Contemporary Feminist Thought Polity
Rich, A. (1980) 'Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence', Signs 5/4:631-660.
Tinker I. 1990 "The Making of a Field; Advocates, Practitioners and Scholars" in I Tinker,
Persistent Inequalities, Women and World Development. OUP p 3-13. (See also chapter by
Boserup p 14-24).
Rubin, G (1975) ‗The Traffic in Women‘: Notes on the ‗Political Economy‘ of Sex‘ in Towards
an Anthropology of Women, ed. R.R.Reiter, pp.157-210 (New York: Monthly Review Press)
Mies, M (1986) Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International
Division of Labour (London: Zed Books) particularly the Introduction
Engels, F (1884) ‗The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State‘. Available in
many readers on Marxism, including R.C.Tucker (Ed.) The Marx-Engels Reader, 1978
Spivak, G.S., 1988 ‗Can the Subaltern Speak‘, in Nelson, C. and Grossberg, L. (Eds), Marxism
and the Interpretation of Culture, pp271-313.
Alcoff, Linda and Elizabeth Potter eds. 1993. Feminist epistemologies. New York: Routledge.
Code, Lorraine. 1991. What can she know: Feminist theory and the construction of
knowledge. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Harding, Sandra. 1991. Whose science Whose knowledge? Thinking from women’s lives.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Nicholson, Linda, ed. 1990. Feminism/Postmodernism. New York: Routledge.
Tanesini, Alessandra. 1999. An introduction to feminist epistemologies. Malden,
Massachusetts: Blackwell.
Subrahmanian, R. 2007 ‗Making sense of gender in shifting institutional contexts: some
reflections on gender mainstreaming‘. In A. Cornwall, E. Harrison, A. Whitehead Feminisms
in Development: Contradictions, contestations and challenges. London: Zed Books.
Sardenberg, C. 2007 ‗Back to women? Translations, resignifications and myths of gender in
policy and practice in Brazil.‘ In A. Cornwall, E. Harrison, A. Whitehead, Feminisms in
Development: Contradictions, contestations and challenges. London: Zed Books.
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Batliwala, S. and Dhanraj, D. 2007 ‗Gender myths that instrumentalize women: a view from
the Indian front line‘. In A. Cornwall, E. Harrison, A. Whitehead, Feminisms in
Development: Contradictions, contestations and challenges. London: Zed Books.
Session 4: Power and Empowerment
Essential reading
Kabeer, N. (1999) ‗Resources, Agency Achievements: Reflections on the Measurement of
Women‘s Empowerment‘, Development and Change 30.3: 435-464.
Goetz, AM, and Sen Gupta R. (1996) ‗Who Takes the Credit? Gender, Power and Control
Over Loan Use in Rural Credit Programmes in Bangladesh‘, World Development 24.1: 4563.
Supplementary reading
Wieringa,S, 1996. ‗Women‘s interests and empowerment‘, in Development and Change, vol.
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Kabeer, N. 2001. Conflicts over credit: re-evaluating the empowerment potential of loans to
women in rural Bangladesh‘. World Development, vol 29, no.1
Albee, A.1996. ‗Beyond banking for the poor: credit mechanisms and women‘s
empowerment‘. Gender and Development, vol.4,no.3.
Batliwala, S. 1993 The empowerment of women in South Asia: Concepts and Practices,
New Delhi: Sage.
Batliwala, S. 1994. The meaning of women‘s empowerment: new concepts for action‘, in
Sen, G et al. Population policies reconsidered: health, empowerment and rights. Cambridge
MA, Harvard University Press
Fierlbeck, K. 1995. ‗Getting representation right for women in Development: Accountability and
the articulation of women‘s interests‘, in IDS Bulletin, Vol 26, no.3, pp.23-31
Foucault, M. (Ed. By Colin Gordon). 1980. Power/ Knowledge. Selected Interviews and
Writings. 1972-177. Harvester Press, Brighton.
Fraser, N. 1989. Unruly practices: power, discourse and gender; Polity Press.
Hekman, S (ed). 1996. Feminist interpretations of Michel Foucault. Pennsylvania State
University Press.
Kabeer, N. 1994. Reversed Realities (chapter 9). Verso
Mayoux, L. From Idealism to Realism: women, feminism and empowerment in Nicaraguan
tailoring cooperatives‘, Development and Change 23/2
Mahmud, S. 2003. Actually how empowering is Microcredit. Development and Change. 34.4.
Lukes, Steven. 1974. Power: A Radical View. London: MacMillan Press, Ltd.
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Moser, C., 1989, 'Gender planning in the Third World: meeting practical and strategic needs',
World Development 17(11) or chapter three of Gender Planning and Development
Parpart, J, Rai, S, and Staudt K 2002. ‗Rethinking em(power)ment, gender and development‘,
in Parpart, J, Rai, S, and Staudt K. Rethinking empowerment: gender and development in a
global/local world, London: Routledge.
Rowlands, J. 1997. Questioning empowerment: working with women in Honduras, Oxfam.
Rowlands, J. 1998. ‗A word of the times, but what does it mean? Empowerment in the
discourse and practice of development‘, in Afshar, H (ed) Women and Empowerment, New
York: St Martin‘s Press
Schrijvers, J. ‗Participation and Power: a transformative feminist research perspective‘, in
Nelson, N and Wright, S eds. Power and Participatory Development, 1995. Routledge.
Whitehead A, 1979, ‘Some preliminary notes of the subordination of women, IDS Bulletin
10/3.
Session 5: Gender, Sex and Sexuality
Essential reading
Campuzano, Giuseppe, ‗Are Two Genders Enough?‘ third article in BRIDGE ‗Sexuality‘ IN
BRIEF
Esplen, E., and Jolly, S., ‗Gender and Sex: A Sample of Definitions‘
Plummer, K, (2002) ‗Symbolic Interactionism and Sexual Conduct‘, in C. Williams and A.
Stein (eds.), Sexuality and Gender, Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 20-32
Supplementary reading
BRIDGE, 2007, ‗Gender and Sexuality‘ Cutting Edge Pack, Supporting Resources
Collection, Concepts and Definitions Section, pages 2-8
Friedman, Asia, 2006, ‗Unintended Consequences of the Feminist Sex/Gender Distinction‘ in
Genders Online Journal, Issue 43, 2006
Sexuality
Michel Foucault (1978) ―We ‗Other Victorians‘.‖ History of Sexuality, Vol I: An
Introduction New York: Vintage Books
Dowsett 2003 ‗Some considerations on sexuality and gender in the context of AIDS‘,
Reproductive Health Matters, 11 (22), 21-29
Parker, R., and Aggleton, P. (ed.s) 2006, Culture, Society and Sexuality, Routledge: London
Richardson, D, 2007, (Re)Imagining the Relationship between Gender and Sexuality,
Sociology 2007;41;457
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Rubin, Gayle, 1984, ‗Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality‘ in
Vance, Carole (ed.), 1989, Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, Pandora
Press: London
Sex categories and gender
Butler, Judith, 2004, Undoing Gender, London: Routledge
Butler, Judith, 1994 ‗Gender as Performance – an Interview with Judith Butler‘, Radical
Philosophy, Summer 1994
Butler, Judith, 1993, Bodies that Matter: On the discursive limits of sex, New York:
Routledge
Butler, Judith., 1990, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, New York &
London: Routledge
Campuzano, Giuseppe, ‗Reclaiming Travesti Rights‘ in ‗Sexuality Matters‘ IDS Bulletin
Volume 37, no. 5
Monro, Surya., 2006, Gender Politics: Citizenship, Activism and Sexual Diversity, London:
Pluto Press
Moore, H.L. 1988 Feminism and Anthropology
Moore, H.L, 2007, The Subject of Anthropology: gender, symbolism and psychoanalysis,
Polity Press
Peletz, M., 2007, Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia since early modern times,
London:Routledge
Sexual rights
Cornwall, A., and Jolly S., 2006, ‗Sexuality Matters‘, IDS Bulletin Volume 37 Number 5
(section on ‗Sexual Rights‘)
Corrêa, Sonia, From Reproductive Health to Sexual Rights: Achievements and Future
Challenges
Corrêa, Sonia, 2002, ‗Sexual Rights: Much has been said, much remains to be resolved‘
(Presented as a lecture in the Sexuality, Health and Gender Seminar, Department of Social
Sciences, Public Health School, Columbia University, USA),
Klugman, Barbara, 2000, ‗Sexual rights in Southern Africa: A Beijing discourse or a strategic
necessity?‘, Health and Human Rights, 4(2): 132-159.
Misra, Geetanjali, and Chandiramani, Radhika (ed.), 2005, Sexuality, Gender and Rights:
Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast Asia, Sage Publications India
Petchesky, Rosalind, 2000 ‗Sexual Rights: Inventing a Concept, Mapping an
International Practice‘ in R. Parker, R. M. Barbosa and P. Aggleton, eds. Framing the
Sexual Subject: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality and Power. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
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Petchesky, Rosalind, 2000, ‗Reproductive and Sexual Rights: charting the Course of
Transnational Women‘s NGOs‘, UNRISD,
Session 6: Theoretical perspectives on Masculinities: Applying it to HIV, sex and
health
Essential reading
Connell, R.W. (2001) The Men and the Boys, University of California Press – emailed Jerker
re what chapter?
Cornwall, A. and White, S. (2000) ―Men, Masculinities and Development. Politics, Policies
and Practices‖, IDS Bulletin 31.2: 1-6.
Supplementary reading
IDS 2007 ‗New Thinking: New Possibilities‘, Ch. 3 In Politicising Masculinities: Beyond the
Personal. Report of an International Symposium.
On sociology and development:
Carrigan, T., Connell, B. and Lee, J. (2002), ―Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity,‖ in
The Masculinity Studies Reader, ed. Rachel Adams, David Savran, Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers, p. 99-118.
Cleaver, F. (2002) ―Men and Masculinities: New Directions in Gender and Development‖ in
Cleaver, F. (ed.) Masculinities Matter! Men, Gender and Development. London and New
York, Zed Books.
Connell, R.W. (2005) Masculinities, Polity Press, Second edition. (First published in 1995)
Connell, R. W. (2002) ―The History of Masculinity,‖ in The Masculinity Studies Reader, ed.
Rachel Adams, David Savran, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, p. 245-261.
Cornwall, A. (1997) ―Men, masculinity and ‗gender in development‘‖, Gender and
Development. Vol 5, No 2, pp 8-13
Jackson, C. (2001) Mean at Work: Labour, masculinities and development, Routledge
White, S. (1997) ―Men, masculinities, and politics of development‖. Gender and
Development. Vol 5, No 2, pp. 14-22.
On family, HIV, sex and reproductive health:
DAW (2003) ―The Role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality‖ - Expert Group
Meeting , Organized by DAW in collaboration with ILO and UNAIDS 21-24 October 2003,
Brasilia, Brazil.
Esplen, E. (2006), ―Engaging Men in Gender Equality: Positive strategies and Approaches;
Overview and Annotated bibliography‖, BRIDGE Bibliography, No. 15
Greig, A. (2006) ―Sex and the rights of Man‖ in IDS Bulletin, Vol 37, No 5
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Hearn, J. (2002), ―Men, Fathers and the State: National and Global Relations,‖ in Barbara
Hobson, ed., Making Men into Fathers: Men, Masculinities and the Social Politics of
Fatherhood (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002), p. 245-272.
Norori, M V. and Lopez, J. M. (1998) ―Conceptualizing Masculinity Through a
Gender-Based Approach.,‖ in Sexual Health Exchange 2 (1998): 3-6.
Session 7: Unpaid Work and the Macro-economy
Essential reading
Beneria, L., (2003), ‗Paid and Unpaid Labor: Meanings and Debates‘, in Gender,
Development and Globalization: Economics as if all People Mattered, New York:
Routledge, pp131-160.
Elson, D. (1995) ‗Male Bias in Macro-Economics: The Case of Structural Adjustment‘, 2nd ed,
in D. Elson (ed.) Male Bias in the Development Process, Manchester: Manchester University
Press, pp. 164-190.
Darity, W. (1995) ‗The Formal Structure of a Gender-Segregated Low-Income
Economy‘, World Development 23.11: 1963-68.
Supplementary reading
Ferber, M. and Nelson, J. (eds.) (1993) Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and
Economics, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Beneria, L. and Sen, G. (1981) ‗Accumulation, reproduction and ‗Women‘s role in economic
development‘ : Boserup revisted‘ Signs Vol . 7 No. 2
Engels, F. (1884) The origins of the family, private property and the State
Elson, D., 1994, ‗Micro, meso, macro: gender and economic analysis in the context of policy
reform‘ in Bakker, I. ed., 1994, The strategic silence: gender and economic policy London:
Zed Books
Folbre, N.,1994, Who pays for the kids? Gender and the structures of constraint, London
and New York: Routledge
Gutierrez, M., 2003, Macroeconomics: making gender matter, London: Zed Books
Sikoska, T., 2003, ‗Measurement and valuation of unpaid household production: a
methodological contribution in Gutierrez, M. ed., 2003, Macroeconomics: making gender
matter, London: Zed Books
Himmelweit, S., (2002), ‗Making visible the hidden economy: the case for gender -impact
analysis of economic policy‘ Feminist Economics 8.1:49-70.
Picchio, A. (1992) Social reproduction. The political economy of the labour market
Cambridge University Press
United Nations, 1999 Human Development Report , chapter 3: ‗The invisible heart – care
and the global economy‘
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On measuring unpaid work:
Goldschmidt-Clermont, L., 1990 ‗Economic measurement of non-market household
activities: is it useful and feasible?‘ ILO Review vol 129 n.3
Goldschmidt-Clermont, L., 1987, Economic evaluation of unpaid household work: Africa,
Asia, Latin America and Oceania, Geneva: ILO
United Nations, 1995 Human Development Report, chapter 4: ‗Valuing women‘s work‘
Floro, M., 1995, ‗Economic restructuring, gender and the allocation of time‘, World
Development 23 (11)
Folbre, N. and Bittman, M., eds., 2004, Family time: the social organization of care, London:
Routledge
Waring, Marilyn (1989) ‗A woman‘s reckoning: an introduction to the international economic
system‘ Chapter 1 in M. Waring, If Women Counted. A new feminist economics London:
Macmillan Press.
On gender-aware macro-models:
Braunstein, E., 2000, ‗Engendering foreign direct investment: household structures, labor
markets and the international mobility of capital‘ World Development, Vol 28 No 7
Erturk, K. and Cagatay, N., 2000,‘Macroeconomic consequences of cyclical and secular
change sin feminization: an experiment at gendered macromodelling‘ World Development,
Vol 23 No 11
Fontana, M. (2007) 'Modelling the Effects of Trade on Women at Work and at Home:
Comparative Perspectives' in van Staveren, I., Elson, D., Grown, C. and Cagatay, N. (eds),
The Feminist Economics of Trade, Routledge
Fontana, M. and Wood, A., 2000, ‗Modelling the effects of trade on women, at work and at
home‘, World Development, Vol 28 No 7
Walters, B., 1995, ‗Engendering macro-economics: a reconsideration of growth theory‘
World Development, Vol 23 No11
Session 8: Gender and Patterns of Work
Essential reading
Elson, D., (1999) ‗Labour Markets as Gendered Institutions: Equality, Efficiency and
Empowerment‘, World Development 27.3: 611-627.
Standing, G., (1999) ‗Global Feminization Through Flexible Labor: A Theme Revisited‘,
World Development 27.3: 583-602.
Supplementary reading
Kabeer, N., 2000, The power to choose: Bangladeshi women and labour market
decisions in London and Dhaka (chapter 3, especially pp.70-81, and chapter 4).
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Beneria, L., 2003, Gender, development and globalization: economics as if all people
mattered, London: Routledge (especially chapter 3: ‗Markets, globalization and gender‘)
Berik, G., van der Meulen Rodgers, Y. and Zveglich, J.E., 2002, ‗Does trade promote gender
wage equity? Evidence from East Asia‘ CEPA Working paper 2002-14 New York: New
School University
Birdsall, N. and Sabot, R., 1991, Unfair advantage: labour market discrimination in
developing countries, Washington D.C.: the World Bank
Blau, F., Ferber, M. and Winkler, A., 1998, The economics of women, men and work,
London: Prentice Hall (chapters5-7: ‗Differences in occupations and earnings‘)
Fontana, M., 2009, 'The Gender Effects of Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries: A
Review of the Literature' in Bussolo, M. and De Hoyos, R. (eds), Gender Aspects of the
Trade and Poverty Nexus: A Micro-Macro Approach, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Joekes, S., 1999, ‗A gender-analytical perspective on trade and sustainable development‘ in
UNCTAD, Trade, sustainable development and gender, Geneva: UNCTAD Kusago, T. and
Tzannatos, T., 1998, ‗Export processing zones: a review in need of update‘, HDDSP
Discussion Paper 9802, Washington D.C.: The World Bank
Kusago, T., 2000,‘Why did rural households permit their daughters to be urban factory
workers? A case from rural Malay villages‘, Labour and Management in Development
Journal, Vol 1 No 2, Canberra: Asia Pacific Press at Australian National University
Pearson, R., 1998, ‗‗Nimble fingers‘ revisited: reflections on women and Third World
industrialisation in the late twentieth century‘ in Jackson, C. and Pearson, R., eds., Feminist
visions of development, London: Routledge
Psacharopolous, G. and Tzannatos, Z., 1992, Women’s employment and pay in Latin
America, Washington D.C.: the World Bank
Seguino, S., 1997, ‗Gender wage inequality and export led growth in South Korea‘, Journal
of Development Studies, Vol 34 No 2
United Nations, 1999, 1999 World survey on the role of women in development:
globalization, gender and work, New York: United Nations
Wood, A., 1991, ‗North-South trade and female labour in manufacturing: an asymmetry‘,
Journal of Development Studies, Vol 27 No 2
Kucera, D. and Millberg, W., 2000, ‗Gender segregation and gender bias in manufacturing
trade expansion: revisiting the ‗Wood asymmetry‘‘ World Development Vol 28 No 7
Session 9: Deconstructing the Household
Essential reading
Kabeer N, (1994) ―Benevolent Dictators‖ in Reversed Realities; chapter five, London:
Verso, pp. 95-135.
Sen, A. (1990) 'Gender and Co-operative Conflicts' in I. Tinker (ed.), Persistent
Inequalities, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 123-149.
Kamala, Markandaya. (1954) Nectar in a Sieve, New York: Signet Classics.
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Or
Mariama, Ba. (1980) So long a letter, Oxford: Heinemann.
Supplementary reading
Basu, K and Kanbur, R. Eds. 2009. Arguments for a Better World: Essays in honor of
Amartya Sen. Oxford University Press. Part II in Volume II: Gender and the household, with
chapters by Agarwal, Alger and Weibull, Beneria, Chen, Chiappero Martinetti, Humphries
and McNay, and Klasen.
Folbre, N. (1986) Hearts and Spades: paradigms of household economics‘ in World
Development 14 245-255
Whitehead, A, 1981. "I'm Hungry Mum: the politics of domestic budgeting", in (eds) Young et
al, Of Marriage and the Market
O‘Laughlin, B. 1995. ‗The Myth of the African Family‘, in (ed) Bryceson, Women Wielding the
Hoe, Oxford/Washington, Berg.
Mackintosh, M. 2000. ‗The contingent household: gender relations and the economics of
unpaid labour‘, in (ed) Himmelweit, Inside
the Household, Basingstoke; Macmillan Press.
Kabeer, N. 2000. ‗Women, wages and intra-household power relations in Bangladesh‘,
Development and Change, vol 28, no.2
Becker, G. 1991 A Treatise on the family. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
SUL
Chant, S. 2004. ‗Dangerous Equations? How Female-headed Households Became the
Poorest of the Poor: Causes, Consequences and Cautions‘ IDS Bulletin Vol 35 (4)
Folbre, N. 1992 Who Pays for the Kids? Gender and the Structures of Constraint.. London:
Routledge. Chapter one
Haddad, L. Hoddinott, J. et al., Eds. 1997 Intrahousehold Resource Allocation In Developing
Countries: Models, Methods and Policies. Johns Hopkins University Press especially
Chapters 7 (Guyer), 12 (Harriss-White) and 15 (Dey Abbas).
Harris, O, 1981, "Households as Natural Units" in (ed) Young et al, Of Marriage and the
Market.
Kandiyoti, D. 1998 ‗Gender, power and contestation: rethinking bargaining with patriarchy‘, in
(ed), Jackson, C and Pearson, R. 1998.Feminist Visions of Development: Gender Analysis
and Policy, Routledge.
Nussbaum. M. 2000.Women and Human Development: the Capabilities Approach.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter four.
Peters, P. E., (1995) 'Uses and abuses of the concept of 'female-headed households' in
research on agrarian transformation and policy' Bryceson D, 1995. Women Wielding the
Hoe. Lessons from Rural Africa for Feminist Theory and Practice; Berg publishers.
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Sen, A K and Sen Gupta S. 1983. Malnutrition of rural Indian children and sex bias.
Economic and Political Weekly, 18 (19-21): 855-64.
Additional reading - novels on gender/ power relations in households
Arab world
Hanan Shaykh (or Hanan Al-Shaykh) Women of Sand and Myrrh, The Story of Zahra,
Beirut Blues
Sahar Khalifeh, The Inheritance
Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the Sun
Fadia Faqir, Pillars of Salt
Nawal el-Saadawi, Two Women in one and Woman at Point Zero
Africa
Buchi Emecheta, Joys of Motherhood
Flora Nwapa, Efuru
Bessie Head, Maru
Cyprian Ekwensi, Jaguar Mama
Elechi Amadi, The Concubine
Charlotte Bruner, Unwinding Threads (short pieces by Emecheta, Nwapa, Grace Ogot,
Ama Ata Aidoo and others)
Stephanie Newell, Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in
West Africa.
Abu Loghod, Writing women’s worlds
Mariama Ba, So long a letter
Latin america and caribbean
Rigoberta Menchu, I
Diary of Maria Carolina de Jesus
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
Jamaica Kincaid, Autobiography of My Mother
South asia
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Bapsy Sidhwa, Ice Candy Man; The Pakistani Bride
Sara Suleri, Meatless Days
Kamala Markandaya, A Handful of Rice
Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve
Anita Desai, Cry the Peacock, Fasting and Feasting and In Custody
Anita Nair, Ladies Coupe
Satyajit Ray Pather Panchali (Bibhuti Bhushan Banerji)
Rabindra Nath Tagore, Home and Away
Susie Tharu et al, Women Writing in India
Monica Ali, Brick Lane
Science fiction
Utopian/dystopian science fiction novels and their alternative views of the family can expose
the problems of the contemporary versions
Margaret Atwood, Handmaid's tale
Ursula le Guin, The Dispossessed
MArge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Ellen Galford, Queendom
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