Carleton University Fall 2006 Department of Political Science

Carleton University Fall 2006 Department of Political Science PSCI 4500 A Gender and Globalization Seminar: Thursdays, 8:35 to 11:25 a. m. Location: C665 Loeb Instructor: Débora Lopreite Office: B646 Loeb Tel: (613) 520-2600 x. 1598 (no voicemail) E-mail: dcloprei@connect.carleton.ca Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30 to 3:30 pm (or by appointment) Course Description, Aims and Organization: This course aims to shed light on the process of globalization and its particular effects on women s status and gender relations. We will consider the political, economic and social dimensions of this phenomenon and the way in which women around the globe have responded to the negative consequences of globalization. In addition, we will look at the new opportunities that have emerged (international, national and local) to raise women s voices and expand their rights. The course is roughly organized in 4 topical units. The first unit looks at the gendered debates and perspectives on globalization, the second focuses on main selected women s issues that emerged in the global context and the international debates around them. Some of these issues are women s employment in the global economy, global care and sex work, reproductive rights and women s health. The third unit explores the different forms of women s activism in the transnational arena and the adoption of gender mainstreaming perspectives by international institutions. Finally, the fourth unit looks at the relevance of women s representation to address gender issues, the limits of democratic mechanisms to achieve women s rights and the way in which these limits might be removed. The class is organized as a weekly three-hour seminar. I will begin each three-hour session with a short lecture (20 minutes) to introduce key themes and ideas associated to each topic and there will be short student presentations of the assigned readings. All students must come to the class ready to comment on the papers and actively participate in the debate. All required readings must be completed prior to each class. Most of the journal articles are available to be downloaded through the electronic database at Carleton s library. Chapters in books are available through the reserve desk at the Carleton s library. 1

Assignments: The final grade will be based on written assignments as well as weekly attendance and participation. The distribution is as follows: Attendance and Participation 20% Presentation 15% Essay Proposal 10% (Due October 5, 2006) Research Essay 35% (Due November 30, 2006) Short Reviews (2 @ 10% each) 20% (Due October 19 and November 16, 2006) Attendance and Participation: Students are expected to attend and actively participate in the weekly seminars. Students are also expected to come to class having read the material and being prepared to discuss the main themes and ideas as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the various articles. Attendance alone does not ensure a passing grade. Students are expected to contribute thoughtfully to the discussions on a regular basis and demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the readings. The ability to converse across different social, ethnic and other backgrounds is an important component of the university education. Students and instructor are expected to display tolerance for each other s ideas and beliefs across personal and cultural boundaries. Individual Presentations: Individual presentations should be 15 minutes in length covering the ideas and themes of the topic. Do not simply summarize the reading. Instead, attempt to link the different readings together through a discussion of key themes, similarities, differences, etc. Students should also bring questions for discussion to facilitate the debate. Further specifications will be given in the first class. Essay Proposal: Students will be required to submit an essay proposal based on a research topic of their choosing. The topic must be relevant to the broad themes and questions covered by this course. Each proposal should be 5-6 pages long, including the proposed bibliography to be used in the final research essay. Further details will be given in class. Due Date: October, 5 th Research Essay: Students will be required to submit a research paper based on the previous chosen topic. The paper should be 12-15 pages in length, including appendixes, notes and bibliographical references. Due Date: November, 30 th Short Reviews: Students will be required to complete two short reviews (5 pages) during the term. Students may select from any two of the course readings on the outline. Reviews should briefly summarize the readings and assess the methodological and th analytical strengths and weaknesses of the piece. Due Dates: October, 19 and November, 16 th STUDENTS MUST COMPLETE ALL COURSE REQUIREMENTS IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A FINAL GRADE 2

Policies on Assignments: Unless otherwise noted all assignments in this course must be 12 pt font, double-spaced and have standard one inch margins. As much as possible they should be free of spelling and grammatical errors. They must include appropriate citations and bibliography. Assignments that do not have citations will be returned to the student un-graded. Students will be permitted to re-submit the paper, within a specified deadline, but a grade penalty will be imposed. The University takes instructional offences (including plagiarism) very seriously. Please make sure that you are familiar with the regulations regarding instructional offences, which are outlined in the Undergraduate Calendar. It is not acceptable to submit the same assignment in two different courses. New assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date specified. They should be submitted directly to the Professor in class. If this is not possible use the Political Science Drop Box on the 6th Floor. Please be aware that the drop box is cleared at 4:00 p.m. each day. Late papers without a date stamp will be assessed a penalty based on the date the Professor actually receives the paper. Do not slip assignments under my office door or post it on my office door. Do not submit written assignments by e-mail or fax. It is the student s responsibility to ensure that I receive the papers and it is the student s responsibility to collect the graded paper in a timely fashion. Students should make a copy of all of their assignments before submitting them and are advised to keep all notes and drafts of work until after the final grade has been assigned and awarded. ** Late Penalties Assignments are due on the dates specified in the course outline. Late papers will be penalized 1 grade point per day (e.g. A paper originally awarded a B+ will become a B if it is one day late). Please contact me well in advance if you anticipate a problem in meeting the due date. Assignments will not be accepted two weeks after the due date. No retroactive extensions will be permitted. Do not ask for an extension on the due date of the assignment. Exceptions will be made only in those cases of special circumstances, (e.g. illness, bereavement) and where the student has verifiable documentation. th The Senate deadline for completion of term work is: December, 4 book and video Waring, Marilyn (1996) Three Masquerades: Essays on Equality, Work and Hu(man) Rights, University of Toronto Press, Toronto Buffalo Video: Who s counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Economics [98 minutes] Sep. 7 Introduction to the Course Introduction to the course themes Review of course outline and requirements Students will sign up in class for seminar presentation 3

UNIT I Sep. 14 Gender Perspectives and Globalization Pearson, Ruth Moving the Goalposts: Gender and Globalization in the Twenty- First Century, Gender and Development, Vol. 8, 1, March 2000 (Available at Rai, Shirin M. Gendering Global Governance, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 4:4, December 2004, 579-601 (Available at Carleton s Library data base) Waylen, Georgina Putting Governance into the Gendered Political Economy of Globalization, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 6:4, December 2004, 557-578 (Available at Marchand, Marianne Challenging Globalization: Toward a feminist understanding of resistance, Review of International Studies (2003) 29, 145-160 (Available at V. Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan, Global Gender Issues (Boulder: Westview, 1999) Chapters One and Two pp. 1-68 Sep. 21 Women, Structural Adjustment and the Development Discourse Kabeer, Naila The Emergence of Women as a Constituency in Development, Chapter 1 in Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, (London Zed Books, 2003) pp. 1-10 (on reserve) Bergeron, Suzanne The Post Washington Consensus and Economic Representation of Women in Development at the World Bank, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 5:3 November 2003, 397-419 (Available at Connelly, M. Patricia Gender Matters: Global Restructuring and Adjustment, Social Politics, 1996, Spring (on reserve) Gen, Zita Gender, Markets and States: A Selective Review and Research Agenda, World Development, Vol. 24, n 5, pp. 821-9, 1996 (Available at 4

Marchand, Marianne Reconceptualising Gender and Development in an Era of Globalization, Millennium, 1996, 25 :3 pp. 577-603 Sparr, Pamela Mortgaging Women s Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment, Zed Books, London and New Jersey, 1994. (A general introduction to SAPs and its effect on women s status. It also provides a good selection of case studies) UNIT II Sep. 28 Gender, Globalization and Employment Moghadam, Valentine, Gender and Globalization: Female Labour and Women s Mobilization in Journal of World Systems Research V: 2 (Summer 1997) pp. 367-388 (on reserve) Moghadam, Valentine (2000) Economic Restructuring and the gender contract: a case study of Jordan, in Marchand and Runyan, eds., Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites and Resistances. New York: Routledge, 2000 (on reserve) Schutte, Ofelia Dependency Work, Women and the Global Economy, The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency (Ed. Feder Kittay, Eva and Ellen K. Feder), 2003, pp. 138-158 (on reserve) Video: Made in Thailand, 1999, 33 minutes [25948] Walby, Sylvia The Restructuring of the Gendered Political Economy: Transformations in Women s Employment in Cook, Joanne, Jennifer Roberts and Georgina Waylen (Eds.) Towards a Gendered Political Economy, McMillian Press and St. Martins Press, 2000 Koggel, Christine (2003) Globalization and Women s Paid Work: Expanding Freedom? Feminist Economics, 9 (2-3) pp. 163-183 Garcia Brigida, Richard Anker and Antonella Pinneli: Women in the Labor Market in changing economics: Demographic Issues, Oxford University Press, 2003, Chapter 2, pp. 13-34 5

Oct. 5 Women s Migration I: Global Care and The Internationalization of Care giving Zarembka, Joy: America s Dirty Work: Migrant Maids and Modern-Day Slavery, in Ehrenreich and Hochschild (eds.) (2002), pp. 142-153 (on reserve) Bakan, Abigail and Daiva Stasiulis, Making the Match: Domestic Placement Agencies and the Racialization of Women s Household Work, in Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1995, vol. 20, no 21 (on reserve) Hochschild, A. R. Global Care Chains and Emotional Surplus Value in Anthony Giddens and Will Hutton (eds.) Global Capitalism, 2000, pp. 130-146 (on reserve) Video: Maid in America, 2004, 58 minutes [262897] Essay proposal due in class Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Russell Hochschild (eds.) (2002) Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy, New York: Holt, Introduction, pp. 1-13 (on reserve) Anderson, Bridget (2000) Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour, Zed Books, London and New York (International perspectives and case studies) Oct. 12 Women s Migration II: Global Sex Work Outshoorn, Joyce: The Political Debates on Prostitution and Trafficking of Women in Social Politics, Spring 2005 (on reserve) Brennan, Denise (2003) Selling Sex for Visas: Sex Tourism as a Stepping-stone to International Migration, in Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Russell Hochschild (eds.) (2002) pp. 154-168 (on reserve) Ucarer, Emek Trafficking in Women: Alternate Migration or Modern Slave Trade, in Meyer, Mary and Elisabeth Prugl (1999) Gender Politics in Global Governance, pp. 230-244 (on reserve) Kempadoo, Kamela and Jo Doezema: Global Sex Workers: Rights and Resistance (London: Routledge, 1999) (A good selection of case studies) 6

Oct. 19 Health, Reproductive Rights and Population Policy Doyal, Lesley, Putting Gender into Health and Globalization Debates: New Perspectives and Old Challenges, Third World Quarterly 23:2 (2002) pp. 233-250 (Available at Kabeer, Naila Implementing the Right to Choose: Women, Motherhood and Population Policy, in Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought (London Zed Books, 2003) pp. 31-75 (on reserve) Petchesky, Rosalind, Chapter 2, UN Conferences as Sites of Discursive Struggle, Gains and Fault Lines in Global Prescriptions, Gendering Health and Human Rights (London; Zed Books, 2003) pp. 31-75 (on reserve) Higer, Amy: International Women s activism and the 1994 Cairo Population Conference, in Meyer and Prugl Gender Politics in Global Governance, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC., 1999, pp. 122-141 (on reserve) McIntosh, Alison C. and Jason L. Finkle The Cairo Conference on Population and Development: A New Paradigm?, Population and Development Review, Vol. 21, 2 (Jun. 1995) 223-260 (Available at Short Review due in class Oct. 26 Special Session Invited Guest Speaker: Claudie Gosselin, PhD Team Leader Women s Rights and Citizenship International Development Research Centre (IDRC) UNIT III Nov. 2 Women s Movement and Transnational Feminism Friedman, Elisabeth Gendering the Agenda: The impact of the Transnational Women s rights Movement at UN Conferences, Women s Studies International, 26:4 (2003) pp. 313-31 (Available at Stienstra, Deborah: Dancing resistance from Rio to Beijing: Transnational women s organizing and United Nations Conferences, 1992-6, in Marchand and Runyan: Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites and Resistances, Routledge, 2000, pp. 209-224 (on reserve) 7

Desai, Manisha, Transnationalism: The face of Feminist Politics Post-Beijing, International Social Science Journal 57:184 (June 2005) (Available at Carleton s Library data base) Pettman, Jan: Global Politics and Transnational Feminists, in Ricciutelli, Luciana (Eds.) Feminist Politics Activism and Vision: Local and Global Challenges, Zed Books, 2004, pp. 49-63 (on reserve) Alvarez, Sonia E. Latin American Feminisms Go Global : Trends of the 1990s and Challenges for the New Millennium, Chapter 7 in Culture of Politics/Politics of Culture: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements (Ed. Sonia Alvarez, Evangelina Dagnino and Arturo Escobar) Boulder, Westview Press, 1998 Naples, Nancy The Challenges and Possibilities of Transnational Feminist Praxis in Women s Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics, Ed. Naples, Nancy and Manisha Desai, Routledge, 2002 Friedman, Elizabeth The Reality of Virtual Reality: The Internet and gender equality advocacy in Latin America, Latin American Politics and Society 47:3 (Available at Nov. 9 Regional Frames and Women s Activists Alvarez, Sonia E. Advocating Feminism: The Latin American Feminist NGO Boom, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 1:2, September 1999, 181-209 (Available at Macdonald, Laura "Globalization and Social Movements: Comparing Women's Movements' Responses to NAFTA in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada" International Feminist Journal of Politics, 4:2 (August 2002) pp. 151-172 (Available at Moghadam, Valentine M.: Feminists versus Fundamentalists: Women Living under Muslim Laws and the Sisterhood is Global Institute in Globalizing women: Transnational Feminist Networks, 2005, Chapter 6, pp. 142-172 (on reserve) Adeleye-Fayemi, Bisi: Creating and Sustaining Feminist Space in Africa: Local and Global Challenges in the Twenty-First Century, in Feminist Politics Activism and Vision by Ricciutelli, Luciana et. Al., Zed Books, 2004, pp. 100-121 (on reserve) 8

Helfferich, Barbara and Felix Kolb Multilevel Action Coordination in European Contentious Politics: The Case of the European Women s Lobby, in Imig, Doug and Sydney Tarrow Contentious Europeans: Protests and Politics in an emergent polity, 2001, Chapter 7, pp. 143-161 Nov. 16 Gender Mainstreaming in a Global World Kardam, Nuket The Emergent Gender Global Equality Regime: From Neoliberal and Constructivists Perspectives in International Relations, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 6:1, March 2004, 85-109 (Available at Carleton s Library data base) Walby, Sylvia Introduction: Comparative Gender Mainstreaming in a Global Era, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 7:4 December 2005, 453-470 (Available at Moser, Caroline and Annalise Moser Gender Mainstreaming Since Beijing: A review of success and limitations in international institutions, Gender and Development, Vol 13, 2, July 2005 (Available at True, Jacqui Mainstreaming Gender in Global Public Policy, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 5:3 November 2003, 368:396 (Available at Short Review due in class UNIT IV Nov. 23 Gender, Democracy and Women s Representation Walby, Sylvia Gender, Globalization and Democracy, Gender and Development, Vol. 8, 1, March 2000 (Available at Htun, Mala and Mark Jones Engendering the Right to Participate in Decisionmaking: Electoral Quotas and Women s Leadership in Latin America in Craske, Nikki and Maxine Molyneux (eds.) Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America, 2002, pp.32-56 (on reserve) 9

Goetz, Anne Marie and Rob Jenkins Gender and Accountability in Reinventing Accountability: Making Democracy Work for Human Development, Palgrave, 2005, pp. 158-179 (on reserve) Mazur, Amy The impact of Women s participation and Leadership on Policy Outcomes: A Focus on Women s Policy Machineries, United Nations, October 2005 (on reserve) Dahlerup, Drude and Lenita Freidenvall Quotas as a Fast Track to Equal Representation for Women, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 7:1, March 2005, 26-48 (Available at Nov. 30 Gender and Women s Human Rights Bunch, Charlotte: Women s Rights as Human Rights: Towards a Revision of Human Rights, Human Rights Quarterly (12) pp. 486-498 (Available at Robinson, Fiona: Human rights and the Global Politics of Resistance: Feminist Perspectives, Review of International Studies (2003), 29, 161-180 (Available at Joachim, Jutta: Shaping the Human Rights Agenda: The Case of Violence against Women, in Meyer, Mary K. and Elisabeth Prugl, Gender Politics in Global Governance, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC. 1999, pp. 142-160 (on reserve) Craske, Nikki and Maxine Molyneux (eds.) Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America, 2002, Introduction, pp. 1-31 Research Essay due in class Useful books for this class (On reserve at Carleton s Library) Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Russell Hochschild editors, Metropolitan Books Herny Hold and Company/New York, 2003 Women s Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics by Nancy Naples and Manisha Desai Editors, Routledge, 2002 10

Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought by Naila Kabeer, Verso, London, New York, 1994 Global Gender Issues by V. Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan (Boulder: Westview, 1999) Mortgaging Women s Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment by Pamela Sparr, Zed Books, London and New Jersey, 1994 Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour by Bridget Anderson, Zed Books, London and New York, 2000 Moghadam, Valentine M., Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 Ricciutelli, Luciana, Angela Miles and Margaret McFadden (Ed.) Feminist Politics Activism and Vision, Zed Books, 2004 Meyer, Mary K. and Elisabeth Prugl, Gender Politics in Global Governance, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC. 1999 Marchand and Runyan: Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites and Resistances, Routledge, 2000 Academic Accommodations For Students with Disabilities: Students with disabilities requiring academic accommodations in this course are encouraged to contact the Paul Menton Centre (PMC) for Students with Disabilities (500 University Centre) to complete the necessary forms. After registering with the PMC, make an appointment to meet with the instructor in order to discuss your needs at least two weeks before the first in-class test or CUTV midterm exam. This will allow for sufficient time to process your request. Please note the following deadlines for submitting completed forms to the th PMC for formally scheduled exam accommodations: November 6, 2006 for fall and fall/winter th term courses, and March 9, 2007 for winter term courses. For Religious Observance: Students requesting accommodation for religious observances should apply in writing to their instructor for alternate dates and/or means of satisfying academic requirements. Such requests should be made during the first two weeks of class, or as soon as possible after the need for accommodation is known to exist, but no later than two weeks before the compulsory academic event. Accommodation is to be worked out directly and on an individual basis between the student and the instructor(s) involved. Instructors will make accommodations in a way that avoids academic disadvantage to the student. Instructors and students may contact an Equity Services Advisor for assistance (www.carleton.ca/equity). For Pregnancy: Pregnant students requiring academic accommodations are encouraged to contact an Equity Advisor in Equity Services to complete a letter of accommodation. Then, make an appointment to discuss your needs with the instructor at least two weeks prior to the first academic event in which it is anticipated the accommodation will be required. 11

Plagiarism: The Undergraduate Calendar defines plagiarism as: "to use and pass off as one's own idea or product, work of another without expressly giving credit to another." The Graduate Calendar states that plagiarism has occurred when a student either: (a) directly copies another's work without acknowledgment; or (b) closely paraphrases the equivalent of a short paragraph or more without acknowledgment; or (c) borrows, without acknowledgment, any ideas in a clear and recognizable form in such a way as to present them as the student's own thought, where such ideas, if they were the student's own would contribute to the merit of his or her own work. Instructors who suspect plagiarism are required to submit the paper and supporting documentation to the Departmental Chair who will refer the case to the Dean. It is not permitted to hand in the same assignment to two or more courses. The Department's Style Guide is available at: www.carleton.ca/polisci/undergrad/styleguide.pdf Oral Examination: At the discretion of the instructor, students may be required to pass a brief oral examination on research papers and essays. Submission and Return of Term Work: Papers must be handed directly to the instructor and will not be date-stamped in the departmental office. Late assignments may be submitted to the drop box in the corridor outside B640 Loeb. Assignments will be retrieved every business day at 4 p.m., stamped with that day's date, and then distributed to the instructor. For essays not returned in class please attach a stamped, self-addressed envelope if you wish to have your assignment returned by mail. Please note that assignments sent via fax or email will not be accepted. Final exams are intended solely for the purpose of evaluation and will not be returned. Approval of final grades: Standing in a course is determined by the course instructor subject to the approval of the Faculty Dean. This means that grades submitted by an instructor may be subject to revision. No grades are final until they have been approved by the Dean. Course Requirements: Students must fulfill all course requirements in order to achieve a passing grade. Failure to hand in any assignment will result in a grade of F. Failure to write the final exam will result in a grade of ABS. FND (Failure B No Deferred) is assigned when a student's performance is so poor during the term that they cannot pass the course even with 100% on the final examination. In such cases, instructors may use this notation on the Final Grade Report to indicate that a student has already failed the course due to inadequate term work and should not be permitted access to a deferral of the examination. Deferred final exams are available ONLY if the student is in good standing in the course. Connect Email Accounts: The Department of Political Science strongly encourages students to sign up for a campus email account. Important course and University information will be distributed via the Connect email system. See http://connect.carleton.ca for instructions on how to set up your account. 12