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Week 5
Readings
In The Women, Gender and Development Reader (Visvanathan, Duggan, Nisonoff and Wiegersma, eds), 2011:
- Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, ‘Global women’ (pp 237-44)
- Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, ‘Maquiladoras: The view from the inside’ (pp 225-36)
- Nalini Visvanathan and Karla Yoder, ‘Women and microcredit: A critical introduction’ (pp 47-54)
- K. Kalpana, ‘Negotiating multiple patriarchies: Women and microfinance in South India’ (pp 55-63)
- Lourdes Beneria, ‘Accounting for women’s work: The progress of two decades’ (pp 114-20)
- Diane Wolf, ‘Daughters, decisions and domination: An empirical and conceptual critique of household strategies’ (pp 137-53)
- Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. 2010. A discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). May 17, Georgetown University.
Lecture pages
- Going to the cities
- Living in the cities
- the informal economic sector
- Factory work
- Summarizing week’s material
Video
National Labor Committee. 2007. The Hidden Face of Globalization. At NLCnet.org.
