ANSO 2000.05  Spring 2002  Webster University

Allan MacNeill  HSPC 210  (314) 968-7489  macneiam@webster.edu

Text:

Shawn Meghan Burn, Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co. 2000.

Course Requirements:

1. Attendance and Class Participation (20%)--You are expected to complete the assigned readings and come to class prepared to discuss, analyze and critique them.

2. Midterm Exam (25%)--a take-home essay exam.

Choose either option 3 or 4 below

3. Personal Interview (25%)--Interview a person whose life has been significantly impacted by globalization. The interview should include a special emphasis on gender relations, identities, and issues. Possible interviewees may include an immigrant woman, a worker displaced by foreign competition, or someone who does extensive business overseas. There are many other possibilities. You will hand in a typed summary of the interview (approx. 5 pgs.) and give a brief (5 min.) presentation to the class.

4. World Wide Web Research (25%)--Choose a particular topic area related to the course and find 5 web pages that provide resources for people wanting more information on this topic. You will write a 5 page summary that includes the web addresses (URL) and your critical review of the websites. Copies of student reviews can be found right here at Website Reviews..

Links to get you started:
    World March of Women Links
    Women's Resources (WILPF links)
    Women's Studies Research Engines

5. Final Exam (30%)

Academic Dishonesty:

It is the policy of the instructor that any student caught cheating or committing plagiarism will receive a failing grade for the course and may be subject to further disciplinary action. Plagiarism occurs when a writer intentionally or unintentionally uses someone else's words or ideas without proper acknowledgement.

Course Outline:

What is Globalization?

Burn, Ch. 1 Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations? Benjamin Barber, "Introduction,"Jihad vs. McWorld

 

Gender and Feminism in the New World Order

Jill Steans, "Gender, Feminism, and International Relations" Gender and International Relations: An Introduction. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Cynthia Enloe, "Nationalism and Masculinity" in Bananas, Beaches & Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1989. Burn, Chs. 2, 4 Serena Nanda, "Multiple Genders among North American Indians" and "Liminal Gender Roles in Polynesia" in Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. 2000.

 

Border Crossings I: Migrant Labor & Tourism

Cynthia Enloe, "On the Beach: Sexism and Tourism" Mary Crain, "Negotiating Identities in Quito's Cultural Borderlands" in David Howes, ed.,Cross-Cultural Consumption: Global Markets, Local Realities. New York: Routledge. 1996. Kimberly Chang and L.H.M. Ling, "Globalization and its Intimate Other: Fillipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong" in Marchand and Runyan, eds. Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sights and Resistances. London: Routledge. 2000.

LINKS:
    Migration News
    Virtual Library on Migration and Ethnic Relations
    Center for Migration Studies
    Women in Migration Fact Sheet
    Immigration Index
    Immigration Issues from About.com
 

Border  Crossings II: Trafficking, Sex Tourism, and Sex Work

Kamala Kampadoo, "The Migrant Tightrope: Experiences from the Caribbean" in Kamala Kampadoo and Jo Doezema, eds.Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition. NewYork: Routledge. 1998 Satoko Watenabe, "From Thailand to Japan: Migrant Sex Workers as Autonomous Subjects" in Kampadoo and Doezema Seiko Hanochi, "Japan and the Global Sex Industry"in Kelly et. al. Gender, Globalization, & Democratization. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. 2001. Kevin Bales, "Thailand: Because She Looks Like a Child" Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1999. Wathinee Boonchalaksi and Phillip Guest, "Prostitution in Thailand" in Lin Lean Lim, ed. The Sex Sector: The Economic and Social Bases of Prostitution in Southeast Asia. Geneva: International Labour Office. 1998.

LINKS:
    Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
    Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
    The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
    Prostitutes' Education Network
    Network of Sex Work Projects
 

Globalization, Women & Development

Burn, Ch. 6 Jill Steans, "The Gender Dimension of Global Political Economy and Development"

LINKS:
    DAWN--Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
    The World Bank Gender Net
    50 Years is Enough--Gender Issues
    The Development Group for Alternative Policies
 

The GlobalAssembly Line and Sweatshops

Burn, Ch. 5 Elinor Spielberg, "The Myth of Nimble Fingers" and Julie Su, "El Monte Thai Garment Workers: Slave Sweatshops in Ross, ed. No Sweat. William Grieder, "Wawasan 2020" in One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism. New York: Touchstone. 1997. Richard Appelbaum and Peter Drier, "The Campus Anti-Sweatshop Movement" Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, "Two Cheers for Sweatshops"

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Globalization, Culture and Human Rights

Burn, Ch. 10 Kevin Bales, "The New Slavery" in Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy.  Berkeley: University of California Press. 1999 Martha Nussbaum,  "Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation" in Sex and Social Justice.Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999. Leslye Amede Obiora, "Bridges and Barricades: Rethinking Polemics and Intransigence in the Campaign against Female Circumcision" in Adrien Katherine Wing, Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader. New York: NYU Press. 2000.

 

Globalization and Motherhood: Reproduction, Population and Child Care

Burn, Ch. 3 Asoka Bandanage, "Population and Development" in Jael Silliman and Ynestra King, eds., Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment and Development. Cambridge, MA: South End Press. 1999. Shellee Colen, "'Like a Mother to Them': Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Child Care Workers and Employers in New York" in Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, eds.,Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1995

 

Globalization, Modernization, Feminism & Islam

Burn, Ch. 7 Shahla Haeri, "Obedience versus Autonomy: Women and Fundamentalism in Iran and Pakistan" The Globalization Reader Zohreh T. Sullivan, "Eluding the Feminist, Overthrowing the Modern? Transformations in Twentieth-Century Iran" Lila Adu-Lughod, "The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics"

 

The Globalization of Political Activism?

Burn, Chs. 8 & 9 Jael Silliman, "Expanding Civil Society, Shrinking Political Spaces: The Case of Women's Nongovernmental Organizations" in Silliman and King Nitza Berkovitch, " The Emergence and Transformation of the International Women'sMovement" UN Fourth World Conference on Women, "Beijing Declaration" in Lechner and Boli.