Northern Arizona University
Women’s and Gender Studies
WGS 360 # 5058
Women and Globalization
Spring 2011
Instructor: Chineze J. Onyejekwe
Social and Behavioral Sciences West (SBS West), Room 104
Office Hours: Tuesday 3-4p.m.or by appointment
Class meetings: TuTh 12:45p.m.- 2 p.m.
Phone: 928-523-5560
E-mail: chineze.onyejekwe@nau.edu
1/11/2010 - 5/7/2010
Course Description
The world has integrated as never before and this process known as ‘globalization’ has
many implications for gender analysis. This course therefore focuses on both the
positive/advantages and negative/detrimental effects of the “global village” on women,
especially in the developing world. Major topics include instant global communication
and media issues of concern to women such as advertising, multi-national/transnational
businesses, economic liberalization policies and the ethics of the global economy
especially as it relates to women workers, violence against women, global mobility,
human trafficking and the critical issues of the global sex industry, women’s health,
poverty, HIV/AIDS, the empowering nature of new technological innovations such as the
New Reproductive technologies (NRTs) and Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs), justice, the environment, and the greater role of women in decisionmaking.
Course Objectives
Meeting the essential skills of critical thinking and effective writing. The specific
objectives of this course are:
1. To understand the challenges women face in the globalization process, especially
in the developing world such as greater insecurity and hardship, and the efforts to
overcome them through the empowerment of women.
2. To highlight the fact the gender analysis is essential for defining a fairer
globalization thereby seek alternatives, to this process - globalization.
3. To seek and end to poverty and violence associated with this process.
4. To demand justice and full human rights for women everywhere.
5. Discuss and critically examine the evolution of concepts of gender, development,
and globalization and their underlying assumptions.
6. Comprehend the impacts of the international development agenda and
globalization on the lives of women and men in different political and social
contexts.
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7. Discuss how factors such as the global economy, policy implementation, and
management of natural resources intersect and affect gender relations.
8. Comprehend why gender inequality affects the opportunities and benefits that
women can obtain from development programs and the globalized economy.
9. Describe the international legal framework that pertains to women’s human
rights.
10. To share insights about lessons learned: what has worked, and what has been less
successful. What issues policymakers in development organizations and national
governments should be made aware of.
11. There will be opportunities to improve both communication (effective) and
analytical (critical) skills through participation in class and small group
discussions, and oral presentations.
Course Structure
This course brings together the concepts and understanding of the centrality of women's
rights and roles in development, through the examination of the various issues related to
gender inequality in the developing world.
The class meets once a week and will combine lectures and discussions, and students are
expected to participate actively in class discussions. Relevant articles will also be given
out to students for analysis, and further discussions.
Course Requirements
Required Books
Delia D. Aguilar and Anne E. Lacsamana (2004) Women and Globalization. Amherst,
New York: Humanity Books.
Chineze J. Onyejekwe (2009) Readings in Gender and Development: Engendering
National and Global Policies. San Diego, California: University Readers, Inc.
Required Course Readings
Because I am A Girl: The State of the World’s Girls 2007 [online] URL:
http://www.plan-international.org/pdfs/becauseiamagirl.pdf
Other required publications and articles are located on the Internet, and the websites are
provided to the students for download before each class. Relevant materials will also be
deposited/reserved for students in the library.
Methods of Assessment
Attendance/Class Participation
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Students are expected to attend classes as well as participate in class discussions.
Students are also expected to respect everyone’s opinion as time will be taken to address
current issues relevant to women and development, and individual student’s attitudes and
thoughts on the issues discussed.
Reactions
Each student will be asked to give a formally written personal reaction to class
discussions and readings, monthly monthly – This is a response to the question given
out by the instructor at the end of each month.
Length: four type-written, double-spaced pages (Times New Roman, 12) – Not more.
Submission date: first week of every month.
Some writing tips
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Try to use easy to understand language.
Make short sentences.
Be concise.
Add sufficient detail and refer to the literature, but avoid over detailed
descriptions.
Provide a detailed bibliography.
Citation and referencing:
No preferred form for citation and referencing. The style is left to the student. The only
requirement is that the student be consistent throughout the essay.
Marking scheme based on:
(i)
Understanding key concepts associated with the topic
(ii)
Organization and language clarity: good grammar/clear English
and arranging work systematically
(iii)
Critical analysis: adding sufficient detail, and effective analysis of
women’s experiences with globalization
(iv)
Making reference to relevant literature
(iv)
Providing a detailed bibliography
Plagiarism: We shall follow the NAU policy on plagiarism!
Reflective/Final Essay
Reflective/final essay: a major component of WGS 360 is designed in such a way that it
not only tests the student's articulation of key issues discussed in class, but also to find
out how he/she has made an independent effort to understand the course material.
*This is a response to the question given out by the instructor at the end of the
semester.
Length: 8-10 type-written, double-spaced pages (Times New Roman, 12). Not more!
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Grade Disbursement
Class attendance/Participation
Monthly writings
Reflective/final Essay
30%
45%
25%
Grading Scale
A
90-100%
B
80-89%
C
70-79%
D
60-69%
F
59% and below
Course Calendar and Readings
WEEK 1 (January 18): Introduction – What is Globalization
Delia D. Aguilar “Introduction.” In Delia D. Aguilar and Anne E. Lacsamana (2004)
Women and Globalization. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, pp. 11-23.
Globalization 101.org “What is Globalization?” [online] URL:
http://www.globalization101.org/What_is_Globalization.html?PHPSESSID=830d31be35
66d434989124e94ed78239
WEEK 1 (January 20): Gender and Global Media/Advertising
Onyejekwe (2009) Advertising and the Exploitation of Female Sexuality,” pp. 115-118.
The Levine Institute “Is Beauty Globalized?” 5 December 2010. [online] URL:
http://www.globalization101.org/news1/beauty_globalization
Globalization 101.org
[online] URL: http://www.globalization101.org/uploads/File/Culture/cultall2009.pdf
The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2010 Report Who Makes the News?
September. [online] URL:
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http://www.whomakesthenews.org/images/stories/website/gmmp_reports/2010/gmmp_20
10_preliminary.pdf
Philippe Legrain, "Cultural Globalization Is Not Americanization," The Chronicle
Review, 9 May 2003.[online] URL: chronicle.com/free/v49/i35/35b00701.htm, acc. 11
Oct 2008
WEEK 2: (January 25): Internet Governance and Women’s Rights
Onyejekwe (2009) The Internet and the Commercialization of Sex: A Gender
Perspective,” pp. 107-114.
Masum Momaya “What is Internet Governance? And why does it matter for women’s
rights?” AWID, 17 December 2009. [online] URL: http://www.awid.org/eng/Issues-andAnalysis/Issues-and-Analysis/What-is-Internet-Governance-And-why-does-it-matter-forwomen-s-rights
WEEK 2 (January 27): New Reproductive Technologies (NRTs) and Women’s
Rights
Wendy Chavkin "Biology and Destiny: Women, Work, Birthrates, and Assisted
Reproductive Technologies." In Carolyn Elliot (ed.), Global Empowerment of Women:
Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religion. New York: Routledge, pp. 77-99.
*Available on VISTA!
AWID Gender Equality and New Technologies. 16/03/2009. [online] URL:
http://www.awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Library/Gender-Equality-and-NewTechnologies*Available on VISTA.
http://www.youthcoalition.org/DEV/mambo2/images/stories/SRRGUIDE/srr%20guide%
20final%20version.pdf
WEEK 3 (February 1): Reproductive Rights Matters: Cosmetic Surgery, Body
Image and Sexuality
Onyejekwe (2009) “Roe v. Wade: Abortion and the Issue of Choice or Reproductive
Rights.” pp. 89-93.
Angie Rankman “Obsessed With Beauty: The Rush To Cosmetic Surgery,” Aphrodite
Womens Health, 7 October 2005. [online] URL:
http://www.aphroditewomenshealth.com/news/cosmetic_surgery.shtml
Claudia Ahumada & Shannon Kowalski-Morton (2006) “A Youth Activist’s Guide to
Sexual and Reproductive Rights.” [online] URL:
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WEEK 3 (February 3): Women, Global Warming and Climate Change
UN News Center “SEAL THE DEAL: Climate Change Aggravates Gender Inequality –
UN,”
18
November
2009.
[online]
URL:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33005&Cr=climate+change&Cr1=
UN News Center “UN Disaster Expert Knows First-hand What Copenhagen Failure
Could
Entail,”
20
November
2009.
[online]
URL:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33031&Cr=climate+change&Cr1=disa
ster#
WEEK 4 (February 8): Population, Gender and Climate Change
Robert Engelman “Summary: Population, Climate Change, and Women's Lives,”
Worldwatch Report, online URL: http://www.worldwatch.org/PopulationClimateWomen
Population Action International (22 April 2010) Population and Climate Data Sheet.
[online]
URL:
http://www.populationaction.org/Publications/Fact_Sheets/climatedatasheet/climate_datasheet.pdf
Roger-Mark De Souza "The Integration Imperative: How to Improve Development
Programs by Linking Population, Health, and Environment," ECSP Focus Issue 19.
[online] URL: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/Focus_19_DeSouza.pdf
BMJ “Population, Gender and Climate Change: Improving Access to Family Planning
Services and Promoting Sexual Equality are the Priority,” Volume 339, 21 November
2009. [online] URL: http://populationaction.org/PDFs/64703.pdf
Aklilu Kidanu, Kimberly Rovin and Karen Hardee (3 December 2009) Linking
Population, Fertility and Family Planning with Adaptation to Climate Change: Views
from
Ethiopia.
[online]
URL:
http://www.populationaction.org/Issues/Population_and_Climate_Change/EthioCCS2009
.pdf
Why Family Planning Matters excerpted with permission from The Johns Hopkins
University Center for Communications Programs, Population Reports, Series J, No. 49,
Baltimore, MD, July 1999. [online] URL: http://www.jhuccp.org/pr/j49edsum.stm.
International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) [online] URL:
http://www.unfpa.org/icpd/icpd.htm
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Why Family Planning Matters excerpted with permission from The Johns Hopkins
University Center for Communications Programs, Population Reports, Series J, No. 49,
Baltimore, MD, July 1999. [online] URL: http://www.jhuccp.org/pr/j49edsum.stm.
WEEK 4 (February 10): Migration in the context of Globalization: Women’s
Human Rights at Risk
National Geographic “What is Human Migration?” [online] URL:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/09/g68/migrationguidestudent.pdf
State of World Population 2006: A Passage of Hope: Women and International
Migration. [online] URL: http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2006/english/chapter_1/figure1.html
Watch Video: Bride Trafficking Unveiled
ON CURRENT TV, 1 April 2010.
[online] URL: http://current.com/groups/on-current-tv/92357386_bride-traffickingunveiled.htm
WEEK 5 (February 15): Transnational Transfer of Genderized Labor
Arlie Russell Hochschild (2002) “Love and Gold” In Barabara Ehrenreich and Arlie
Russell Hochschild, pp. 15-30. *Available on VISTA.
Bridget Anderson (2002) “Just Another Job? The Commodification of Domestic Labor.’
In Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell, pp. 104-114. *Available on VISTA.
Sandy Smith-Nonini “Sticking to the Union: Anthropologists and “Union Maids” in San
Francisco.” In Nandini Gunewardena & Ann Kingsolver (eds), The Gender of
Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities. 2008. School
for Advanced Research, pp. 197-214. *Available on VISTA!
Rhacel Salazar Parrenas “Geographies of Race and Class: The Place and Placelessness of
Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers.” In Nandini Gunewardena & Ann Kingsolver (eds),
The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities.
2008. School for Advanced Research, pp. 171-195. *Available on VISTA!
WEEK 5 (February 17): Migration as Modern Day Slavery/ Abuses against
Domestic Workers
Joy M. Zarembka (2002) “America’s Dirty Work: Migrant Maids and Modern-Day
Slavery.” In Barbara Erhenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, pp. 142-153.
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Human Rights Watch (2008) “As If I Am Not Human” *Section on Abuses against
Domestic Workers. [online] URL:
http://hrw.org/reports/2008/saudiarabia0708/1.htm#_Toc201663352
WEEK 6 (February 22): Trafficking of Women and Girls
Onyejekwe (2009) “Influences of Global Human Trafficking Issues on Nigeria: A
Gender Perspective,” pp. 45-58.
Onyejekwe (2009) Trafficking in Women Migrants: Issues of Concern in South Asia,”
pp. 59-71.
Polaris Project “Combating Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery.” [online]
URL: http://www.humantrafficking.com/polarisproject/trafficking_p3/trafficking.htm
Melissa Ditmore and Andrea Ritchie's “Time for Change in the Fight Against Human
Trafficking.”
RHRealityCheck.org,
26
January
2009.
[online]
URL:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/01/23/the-right-time-change-fight-againsthuman-trafficking
WEEK 6 (February 24): Women and Sex Work
Anne E. Lacsamana “Sex Workers or Prostituted Woman? An Examination of the Sex
Work Debates in the Western Feminist Theory,” In Delia D. Aguilar and Anne E.
Lacsamana (2004) Women and Globalization. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, pp.
387-403.
Denise Brennan (2002) “Selling Sex for Visas: Sex Tourism as a Stepping-Stone to
International Migration.” In Barbara Erhenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, pp. 154168. *Available on VISTA!
C. Jenkins (March 2006) Violence and Exposure to HIV Among Sex Workers in Phnom
Penh, Cambodia. USA Agency for International Development (USAID). [online] URL:
http://www.nswp.org/pdf/JENKINS-CAMBODIA.PDF
Polaris Project “Combating Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery.” [online] URL:
http://www.humantrafficking.com/polarisproject/trafficking_p3/trafficking.htm
WEEK 7 (March 1): Women and Global Poverty
Onyejekwe (2009) “A Review of Developmental Approaches to Poverty Reduction: A
Gender Perspective.” pp. 119-134.
Nilüfer Cagatay “Gender and Poverty.” United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), May 1998. [online] URL:
http://www.iknowpolitics.org/files/Gender%20and%20Poverty.pdf
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Because I am A Girl: The State of the World’s Girls 2007 [online] URL:
http://www.sarpn.org.za/documents/d0002604/index.php
OR http://www.sarpn.org.za/documents/d0002604/State_of_worlds_girls_Plan_2007.pdf
*Chapters 5.
Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2010 - Digital and Urban Frontier
2010. [online] URL:
http://plan-international.org/girls/resources/digital-and-urban-frontiers-2010.php
http://plan-international.org/girls/static/docs/BIAAG_2010_ExecutiveSummary.pdf
http://plan-international.org/girls/static/docs/BIAAG_2010_EN2.pdf
WEEK 7 (March 3): Neo-liberal Globalization and Structural Adjustment Policies
(SAPS)
Nancy Wiegersma “The Restructuring and Privatization of Women’s Industries in
Nicaragua.”In Delia D. Aguilar and Anne E. Lacsamana (2004) Women and
Globalization. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, pp. 68-89.
Grace Chang “Globalization in Living Color.” In Delia D. Aguilar and Anne E.
Lacsamana (2004) Women and Globalization. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, pp.
234-261.
Onyejekwe (2009) “Economic Globalization and the Free Market Ethos: A Gender
Perspective,” pp. 5-9.
William L. Conwill “Neoliberal Policy as Structural Violence: Its Links to Domestic
Violence in Black Communities in the United States.” In Nandini Gunewardena & Ann
Kingsolver (eds), The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and
Economic Marginalities. 2008. School for Advanced Research, pp. 127-146. *Available
on VISTA!
Barbara Sutton “Gendered Bodily Scars of Neoliberal Globalization in Argentina.” In
Nandini Gunewardena & Ann Kingsolver (eds), The Gender of Globalization: Women
Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities. 2008. School for Advanced Research,
pp. 147-168. *Available on VISTA!
Nandini Gunewardena “Disrupting and Negotiating Belonging: Women Workers in the
Transnational Production Sites of Sri lanka.” In Nandini Gunewardena & Ann Kingsolver
(eds), The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic
Marginalities. 2008. School for Advanced Research, pp. 35-60. *Available on VISTA!
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Watch Video: Maquilapolis –City of Factories
WEEK 8 (March 8): Women, Work and Economic Globalization
Rohana Ariffin “Globalization and Its Impact on Women Workers in Malaysia.” In Delia
D. Aguilar and Anne E. Lacsamana (2004) Women and Globalization. Amherst, New
York: Humanity Books, pp. 25-51.
April Ane Knutson “Haitian Women in the New World Order.” In Delia D. Aguilar and
Anne E. Lacsamana (2004) Women and Globalization. Amherst, New York: Humanity
Books, pp. 154-180.
.Delia D. Aguilar and Anne E. Lacsamana (2004), pp. 90-119.
Onyejekwe (2009) “Economic Globalization, Flexible Labor and Women Home-based
Workers,” pp. 11-16.
Bethan Emmett (March 2009) Women Workers Pay the Price for the Global Economic
Crisis. Oxfam GB. [online] URL:
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/economic_crisis/downloads/impact_economic
_crisis_women.pdf
Ruby Ojha “Globalization and Women’s Work,” Department of Economics, SNDT
Women’s University, Mumbai – 400020. Paper presented in International Conference on
“Gender & Development in the World of Work” organized jointly by Women Work &
Health Initiative, Asia, Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India, Bundelkhand
University, Jhansi, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai and Manana at Jhansi from 25
to 27 March, 2010.
[online] URL:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/43744577/Globalization-and-Women%E2%80%99s-Work
WEEK 8 (March 10): Women, HIVAIDS and Stigma
Timeline: 25 years of HIV/Aids
Key events over the last 25 years. [online] URL:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/health/5033810.stm
Onyejekwe (2009) “The Interrelationship between Gender-based Violence and
HIV/AIDS in South Africa.” pp. 37-44.
Human Rights Watch (2003) Just Die Quietly: Domestic Violence and Women’s
Vulnerability to HIV in Uganda. [online] URL: http://hrw.org/reports/2003/uganda0803/
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Lance S. Rintamaki and Frances M. Weaver "The Social and Personal Dynamics of HIV
Stigma." In Thimothy Edgar, Seth. M. Noar and Vicki S. Freimuth (eds.),
Communication Perspectives on HIV/AIDS for the 21st Century. 2008. New York:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 67-99. *Available on VISTA.
Marie-Luise Ermisch “Tools for Fighting AIDS Stigma in Northern Uganda.” Lessons
from Africa… [online] URL:
http://www.waccglobal.org/component/content/article/1557:tools-for-fighting-hiv-andaids-stigma-in-northern-uganda.html
SPRING BREAK 14 -18 MARCH
WEEK 9 (March 22): HIV Prevention Strategies
The ABC Approach, Antiretroviral – drugs, the role of the media and Test Counselling
Practice
HIV/AIDS and the Law
Chineze J. Onyejekwe and Norah Matovu Winyi “Africa: Women, violence and the
criminalization of HIV/AIDS in Africa,” Pambazuka News, Issue 460, 6 December 2009.
[online] URL: http://pambazuka.org/en/category/hivaids/60810
The Politics of Funding (US): The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
(PEPFAR). [online] URL: http://www.avert.org/pepfar.htm
Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) (2005) “Implications of U.S. policy
restrictions on programs aimed at commercial sex workers and victims of trafficking
worldwide.” [online] URL: www.eldis.org/go/home&id=21003&type=Document
ATHENA Network WORLD AIDS DAY 2009: Launch of "10 Reasons Why
Criminalization of HIV Exposure or Transmission Harms Women.” 2 December 2009.
[online]
URL:
http://www.athenanetwork.org/docs/10_Reasons_Why_Criminalisation_Harms_Women_
Smaller_file.pdf
WIDE (2010) Women's Labor Migration in the Context of Globalization
[online] URL:
http://62.149.193.10/wide/download/WIDE%20Migration%20report%20final.pdf?id=12
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Videos:
1. Uganda: Abstinence workshop
[online] URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgu6FtJxnHM
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[online] URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpabeOOJeoQ
2. Sex Workers Protest Against PEPFAR: featuring some of the sex workers’
chants and impassioned speeches from Kyomya Macklean, of the Ugandan sex
worker group WONETHA, and John Mathenge (in still frame), a male sex worker
from Kenya.
[online] URL: http://genderacrossborders.com/2010/07/23/denial-of-service/
WEEK 9 (March 24): Violence Against Women: Sexuality in Social Context
Onyejekwe (2009) “Violence against Women: An Issue of Health and Human Rights,”
pp. 73-77.
UNFPA (2007) Programming to Address Violence Against Women: Ten Case Studies
This volume documents UNFPA's experience addressing many forms of violence against
women. Projects in Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritania, Mexico,
Morocco, Romania, Sierra Leone and Turkey are discussed. [online] URL:
http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/678_filename_vaw.pdf
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
(CEDAW)
[online]
URL:
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N95/186/77/PDF/N9518677.pdf?OpenEleme
nt
Christy Fujio (2007) “From Soft to Hard Law: Moving Resolution 1325 on Women,
Peace,
and
Security
Across
the
Spectrum.”
[online]
URL:
http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=christy_fujio
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
(CEDAW)
[online]
URL:
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N95/186/77/PDF/N9518677.pdf?OpenEleme
nt
The UN Security Council Resolution
http://www.un.org/events/res_1325e.pdf
1325
(SCR
1325)
[online]
URL:
WEEK 10 (March 29): Female Circumcision/Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Ellen Gruenbaum “The Cultural Debate over Female Circumcision: The Sudanese Are
Arguing This One Out for Themselves.” In Delia D. Aguilar and Anne E. Lacsamana
(2004) Women and Globalization. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, pp. 313-346.
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UNFPA 92008) “Frequently Asked Questions on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting.”
[online]
URL:
http://population.developmentgateway.org/uploads/media/population/FGMFGC_Interview_with_photo.pdf
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs/IRIN “WEST AFRICA: West
Africans fight female genital mutilation in France,” 20 June 2008.
WEEK 10 (March 31): Women: Invisible Faces of Armed Violence
Dyan Mazurana, Angela Raven-Roberts and Jane Parpart (2005) Gender, Conflict, and
Peacekeeping. New York; Rowman and Littlefied Publishers, Inc. pp. 4-26. *Available
on VISTA.
Onyejekwe (2009) "Women, War, Peace-building and Reconstruction,” pp. 79-87.
IANSA Women's Network Invisible Faces of Armed Violence. 6 January 2010. [online]
URL:
http://www.ces.uc.pt/ogiva/media/Invisible%20Faces%20of%20Armed%20Violence%20
%28edited%20English%20version%29.pdf
Women's Refugee Commission (2009) Peril or Protection: The Link Between
Livelihoods and Gender-based Violence in Displacement Setting. [online] URL:
http://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/images/stories/GBV_livelihoods_FINAL2.p
df
Chineze J. Onyejekwe (2004) “Gender-based Violence in Armed Conflict and the United
Nations Security Council’s Resolution 1325 of October 2000.” Development Gateway.
Available from the Internet at:
http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/232596/Genderbased_violence_in_armed_conflict.doc February
Watch
CBS
News
Video:
War
Against
Women
In
Congo
[online]
URL:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4744116n&tag=contentMain;contentBody
WEEK 11 (April 5): Feminism and Global Activism
Crawford and Unger (2004), pp. 6-13 *Available on VISTA!
Crawford and Unger (2004), pp. 434-437. *Available on VISTA!
WEEK 11 (April 7): Women, Globalization and Politics
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Jane Fishburne Collier “Women in Politics.” In Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise
Lamphere (eds.) Women, Culture and Society. 1974. Stanford, California: Stanford
University Press, pp. 89-96. *Available on VISTA!
Drude Dahlerup (2006) Women, Quotas and Politics. London and New York: Routledge,
Introduction: pp.3-31. *Available on VISTA!
WEEK 12 (April 12): Globalization and New ICTs
Onyejekwe (2009) “The Role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in
Women’s Empowerment: An Overview,” pp. 95-105.
Hafkin, Nancy and Nancy Taggart (2001) Gender, Information Technology, and
Developing Countries: An Analytic Study, United States Agency for International
Development (USAID): Office of Women in Development. [online] URL:
http://learnlink.aed.org/Publications/Gender_Book/pdf/Gender_Book_NoPhotos.pdf
International Center for Research on Women [ICRW] (9 June 2009) Bridging the Gender
Divide: How Technology Can Advance Women Economically. [online] URL:
http://www.icrw.org/files/publications/Bridging-the-Gender-Divide-How-Technologycan-Advance-Women-Economically.pdf
WEEK 12 (April 14): What is Empowerment?
B. Sevefjord, Naila Kabeer, Patricia McFadden, Signe Arnfred, Edme Dominguez and
Sherin Saadallah (2001) Discussing Women’s Empowerment: Theory and Practice.
Sweden:
Sida
Studies
No.
3.
[online]
URL:
http://www.sida.se/sida/jsp/sida.jsp?d=118&a=2080&tipStatus=1&language=en_US
*Section 1 only.
WEEK 13 (April 19): Global Microfinance
Onyejekwe (2009) “Micro-finance and Economic Empowerment: Women’s Cooperatives
in Nigeria.” pp. 135-149.
Niño-Zarazúa (2007). The impact of credit on income poverty in urban Mexico: an
endogeneity-corrected estimation. Department of Economics, University of Sheffield.
Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series. *Section on Gender and Microfinance.
[online] URL: http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/rdr.cfm?doc=DOC24246
WEEK 13 (April 21): The Nature/Nurture Debate and Gender Inequality
Ortner, Sherry B. 1974. Is female to male as nature is to culture? In M. Z. Rosaldo and L.
Lamphere (eds), Woman, culture, and society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,
pp. 68-87. *Available on VISTA!
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Because I am A Girl: The State of the World’s Girls 2007 [online] URL:
http://www.sarpn.org.za/documents/d0002604/index.php
OR
http://www.sarpn.org.za/documents/d0002604/State_of_worlds_girls_Plan_2007.pdf*Ch
apters 1, 2, and 3.
BBC News Online. ‘Inequality rife' for young girls
[online] URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/in_depth/6655497.stm
WEEK 14 (April 26): Women’s Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR): a declaration adopted by the
United Nations General Assembly (10 December 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris).
[online] URL: http://www.un.org/rights/HRToday/declar.htm
[online] URL: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
State of World Population 2006: A Passage of Hope: Women and International
Migration. *Section on Protecting the Human Rights of Migrants [online] URL:
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2006/pdf/en_sowp06.pdf
Turyasingura Hope (2007). Responding to Domestic Violence: A Handbook for the
Uganda Police Force. Uganda: Center for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP)
[online]
URL:
http://www.preventgbvafrica.org/Downloads/PoliceHandbook.CEDOVIP.pdf
WEEK 14 (April 28): Revision/Post Final-Reflective Essay
WEEK 15 (May 3): Submit
WEEK 15 (May 5: Submit
WEEK 15 (May 10): Final Day
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