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Gender, Power, and International Development
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Walley, Christine, 21A.338J Gender, Power, and International Development, Fall 2003. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed 07 Jul, 2010). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Member of the Chole Society for Women's Development working in her field in Tanzania. (Photo by Agnete Strom, Women's Front of Norway. Used with permission.)
Highlights of this Course
This course includes a complete bibliography and all assignments.
Course Description
After decades of efforts to promote development, why is there so much poverty in the world? What are some of the root causes of inequality world-wide and why do poverty, economic transformations and development policies often have different consequences for women and men? This course explores these issues while also examining the history of development itself, its underlying assumptions, and its range of supporters and critics. It considers the various meanings given to development by women and men, primarily as residents of particular regions, but also as aid workers, policy makers and government officials. In considering how development projects and policies are experienced in daily life in urban and rural areas in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Melanesia, this course asks what are the underlying political, economic, social, and gender dynamics that make "development" an ongoing problem world-wide.
Staff
Instructor:
Prof. Christine Walley
Course Meeting Times
Lectures:
Two session / week
1.5 hours / session
Level
Undergraduate
Translations
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
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Syllabus
Description
After decades of efforts to promote development, why is there so much poverty in the world? What are some of the root causes of inequality world-wide and why do poverty, economic transformations and development policies often have different consequences for women and men? This course explores these issues while also examining the history of development itself, its underlying assumptions, and its range of supporters and critics. It considers the various meanings given to development by women and men, primarily as residents of particular regions, but also as aid workers, policy makers and government officials. In considering how development projects and policies are experienced in daily life in urban and rural areas in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Melanesia, this course asks what are the underlying political, economic, social, and gender dynamics that make "development" an ongoing problem world-wide.
Requirements
Attendance at class and participation is essential and constitutes 20% of course grade.
Course materials must be read for the assigned day in class.
Written assignments included:
- One short 3 page paper (worth 20% of grade)
- One 5-7 page paper (worth 25% of grade)
- One 7-10 page paper (worth 35% of grade
Calendar
| Introduction |
| 1 |
Defining "Development" |
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| Part 1: The Colonial Legacy: The Gendered Precedents of Development |
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The Colonial Legacy |
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| 3 |
The Colonial Legacy (cont.) |
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| 4 |
Colonial Images of "Native" Women and Men |
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| 5 |
Film: First Contact
Colonial Transformations of Gender |
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| 6 |
Women, Tradition and Modernism |
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| 7 |
Socialism and Post-Colonialism |
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| 8 |
Socialism and Post-Colonialism (cont.) |
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| 9 |
Film: Joe Leahy's Neighbors |
Paper due |
| Part 2: The Rise of Development Theory |
| 10 |
Rise of Development Theory |
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| 11 |
Critics from within the Economic Frame |
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| Part 3: Development and Daily Life |
| 12 |
Film: Our Friends at the Bank |
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| 13 |
Development and Daily Life |
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| 14 |
Development and Daily Life (cont.) |
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| 15 |
Development and Bureaucracy |
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| 16 |
Knowledge and the Environment |
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| 17 |
The Complexities of Activism |
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| 18 |
Film: Black Harvest |
Paper due (5-7 pages) |
| Part 4: Further into Daily Life: The Politics of Poverty outside the Development Frame |
| 19 |
The Politics of Wage Labor |
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| 20 |
Drawing the Line Between First and Third Worlds? |
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| 21 |
Issues of Health
Guest Speaker: Erica James |
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| 22 |
Issues of Health (cont.) |
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| 23 |
Film: Celso and Cora |
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| 24 |
Thinking More About Gender |
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| 25 |
Thinking More About Gender (cont.) |
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Final paper due (2 Essay Questions; 8-10 Pages Total) |
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Further Reading:
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Readings
Required Texts
Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. New York: G. Braziller, 1979. ISBN: 0807609501.
Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0253214513.
de Chungara, Domitila. Let Me Speak! New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978. ISBN: 0853454450.
Gutmann, Matthew. The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN: 05020202368.
Farmer, Paul. Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. ISBN: 0520229134.
Wolf, Diane. Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. ISBN: 0520070720.
Readings by Class Session
| Introduction |
| 1 |
Defining "Development" |
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| Part 1: The Colonial Legacy: The Gendered Precedents of Development |
| 2 |
The Colonial Legacy |
Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. |
| 3 |
The Colonial Legacy (cont.) |
Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. (cont.) |
| 4 |
Colonial Images of "Native" Women and Men |
Hobsbawm, Eric. "The Age of Empire." Chapter 3 in The Age of Empire. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. ISBN: 0394563190.
Stoler, Ann Laura. "Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power, Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia." In Gender / Sexuality Reader, Culture, History, Political Economy. Edited by Roger N. Lancaster, and Micaela di Leonardo. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 0415910056.
Meyrick, A. S. Selections from Woman in All Lands. (Primary document.) Copyright unknown. 1880. |
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Film: First Contact
Colonial Transformations of Gender |
Rothenberg, Diane. "The Mothers of the Nation: Seneca Resistance to Quaker Intervention." In Women and Colonization. Edited by Mona Etienne and Eleanor Leacock. Praeger, 1980. ISBN: 0030525861.
Allen, Judith Van. " 'Sitting on a Man': Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women." Canadian Journal of African Studies 6, 2 (1972): 165-181. |
| 6 |
Women, Tradition and Modernism |
Chatterjee, Partha. "Colonialism, Nationalism and Colonialized Women: the Contest in India." In American Ethnologist.
Walley, Christine. " 'Searching for "Voices" ': Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debate over Female Genital Operations." Cultural Anthropology 12, 3 (1997): 405-438. New York University, American Anthropological Association. |
| 7 |
Socialism and Post-Colonialism |
Chungara, Domitila de. Let Me Speak! |
| 8 |
Socialism and Post-Colonialism (cont.) |
Chungara, Domitila de. Let Me Speak! (cont.) |
| 9 |
Film: Joe Leahy's Neighbors |
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| Part 2: The Rise of Development Theory |
| 10 |
The Rise of Development Theory |
Cooper, Fred, and Randal Packard, eds. "Introduction." In International Development and the Social Sciences. Edited by Fred Cooper, and Randal Packard. Berkley: University of California Press, 1997. ISBN: 0520209575.
Nyerere, Julius K. "Socialism and Rural Development." Chapter 37 in Freedom and Socialism. Dar es Salaam: Oxford University Press, 1968. (African Variations: Julius Nyerere on Development.) ASIN: 0196440602.
Finnemore, Martha. "Redefining Development at the World Bank." Chapter 7 in International Development and Social Sciences. |
| 11 |
Critics from within the Economic Frame |
Ake, Claude. "The Development Paradigm and its Politics." Chapter 1 in Democracy and Development in Africa. Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 1996. ISBN: 0815702205.
Mitchell, Timothy. "Fixing the Economy." Cultural Studies 12, 1 (1998): 82-101. Routledge.
Sen, Amartya. "The Economics of Life and Death." In Scientific American. May 1993. |
| Part 3: Development and Daily Life |
| 12 |
Film: Our Friends at the Bank |
Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0253214513. |
| 13 |
Development and Daily Life |
Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. (cont.) |
| 14 |
Development and Daily Life (cont.) |
Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. (cont.) |
| 15 |
Development and Bureaucracy |
Ferguson, James. "The Bovine Mystique: Power, Property and Livestock in Rural Lesotho." Man 20: 647-74.
Pigg, Stacey Leigh. "The Credible and the Credulous: The Question of 'Villagers' Beliefs' in Nepal." Cultural Anthropology 2, 2 (1996): 160-201. |
| 16 |
Knowledge and the Environment |
Gupta, Akhil. "Indigenous Knowledges: Ecology." In Postcolonial Developments. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0822322137.
Agarwal, Bina. "Development and Environment: 'The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India'." Feminist Studies 18, 1 (Spring 1992).
Walley, Christine J. " 'They Scorn Us Because We Are Uneducated': Knowledge and Power in a Tanzanian Marine Park." Ethnography 3, 3 (2002): 265-298. |
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The Complexities of Activism |
Turner, Terence. "The Social Dynamics of Video Media in an Indigenous Society: The Cultural Meaning and the Personal Politics of Video-Making in Kayapo Communities." Visual Anthropology Review 7, 2 (Fall 1991).
Hodgson, Dorothy. Precarious Alliances: The Cultural Politics and Structural Predicaments of the Indigenous Rights Movement in Tanzania. |
| 18 |
Film: Black Harvest |
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| Part 4: Further into Daily Life: The Politics of Poverty outside the Development Frame |
| 19 |
The Politics of Wage Labor |
Wolf, Diane. Selections from Factory Daughters. |
| 20 |
Drawing the Line Between First and Third Worlds? |
Duncan, Cynthia M. "Blackwell." Preface and Chapter 1 in Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0300084560. |
| 21 |
Issues of Health
Guest Speaker: Erica James |
Farmer, Paul. Selections from Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. |
| 22 |
Issues of Health (cont.) |
Farmer, Paul. Selections from Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. (cont.) |
| 23 |
Film: Celso and Cora |
Farmer, Paul. Selections from Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. (cont.) |
| 24 |
Thinking More About Gender |
Gutmann, Matthew. Selections from The Meanings of Macho. |
| 25 |
Thinking More About Gender (cont.) |
Gutmann, Matthew. Selections from The Meanings of Macho. (cont.) |
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