Prof. Rebecca Klatch Winter Social Science Building Robinson 1401 Office Hours: Mon/Fridays 9-10 Wed. 12:30-3:20

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1 Prof. Rebecca Klatch Winter Social Science Building Robinson 1401 Office Hours: Mon/Fridays 9-10 Wed. 12:30-3:20 International Studies 190: Gender and Globalization Course Syllabus This course focuses on how globalization affects women, men, and families. We will begin with an overview of what it means to study gender and globalization, raising issues that we will be discussing throughout the rest of the course. These issues include analyzing women s work in the global economy, changes in the migration patterns of women and men due to globalization, and the particular impact on international domestic labor patterns, known as the trade in maids. We will then turn to the global politics of women s bodies and the globalization of images of white Western beauty ideals. Following this, we will focus on the global trade in women through sexual trafficking. We ll also examine worldwide violence against women and the specific issue of militarized rape during war. We end the course with discussion of transnational feminism and the organized efforts for social change, particularly through campaigns for the recognition of women s rights as human rights. Required Books Burn, Shawn Meghan. Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective, 3 rd ed. New York: McGraw Hill, Farr, Kathryn. Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children. New York: Worth Publishers, All other readings will be available in a course reader at Cal Copy on Holiday Court. The two books, as well as two copies of the reader, will also be available for two-hour checkout at course reserves in Geisel Library. Course Requirements This class is run as a seminar similar to a graduate seminar where students actively prepare and participate in class discussion. The success of the class depends on students completing all of the readings by the dates listed below and coming to class prepared to discuss these weekly readings. At times we will also view films which pertain to the topics we are examining. Grades will be based on the following activities: 1) Weekly attendance (10% of grade). Weekly attendance is mandatory for this class. Each week you are absent, your grade will be lowered unless you have a doctor s excuse. 2) Weekly discussion questions which you will hand in during class (10% of grade). Each week students will bring to class two typewritten discussion questions which speak to ideas in all of the readings (rather than two questions based on two specific readings). You will turn in these questions every week and they will also be counted as part of your grade. If they are hastily

2 written or do not reflect serious engagement with the readings, your grade will be lowered. Also, these typed questions must be turned in during class; no late questions or handwritten questions will be accepted. 3) Group facilitation of one week s topic (10% of grade). On the first day of class each of you will be asked to sign up to lead class discussion for one week of the course. Depending on the class size, you will be working in groups of two or three. Each group will meet outside of class to prepare discussion questions based on the readings for that week and to discuss how to facilitate the class discussion (the order of the questions, follow-up questions, etc.). Also, the discussion questions brought in by other students will be brought in to enhance our discussion of the issues. I will also play a role in creating an inclusive and focused discussion. 4) Research paper topic and bibliography (10%). You will also be required to turn in a two page description of your paper topic which explains your specific research questions. You will detail what ideas you intend on pursuing in your research and why you see these as significant issues pertaining to this class. You will also include a third page which includes a bibliography for this topic. Make sure you have thoroughly checked out the appropriate readings for this topic and found the best ones before you turn in this bibliography. In other words, you shouldn t just go online and pick readings without having examined them to see if they are the most appropriate ones for your topic. You are required to turn in five bibliographic references in this bibliography as a start for the research on this paper. All articles must be taken from scholarly journals and all books must be published by academic presses (i.e. not popular trade books). These three pages are due at the beginning of class on February 1. 5) Oral presentation (10%). The last two weeks of class will be devoted to class presentations. Depending on the size of the class, each student will have between 10 to 15 minutes to present some of their findings from their research to the class. Specific information about the content of your presentation will be handed out in class. 6) Research Paper (50%). Each student will choose a topic (which will be approved by the professor) focusing on a relevant issue pertaining to gender and globalization and write a research paper of pages (typed, double-spaced and paginated, along with proper citations and a bibliography). Your paper will be based on five to ten readings (depending on whether you are reading books or articles). To help you along in selecting and planning your paper you are required to meet with me individually twice during the quarter. The first meeting to discuss the selection of your topic will be scheduled between January 17 and January 24. The second meeting, between February 21 and February 28, will be to discuss the outline and findings of your paper. Students will sign up during class to schedule these appointments. During the second half of the course part of class time will be devoted to discussion of general problems related to your papers, the process of research, and the development of your ideas. The research paper is due by 10:30 a.m. at 401 SSB on MONDAY, March 19 (the first day of final exam week). There will be no extensions for this paper. Course Schedule 2

3 Week of January 11: Introduction to Class FILM: Women s Rights ( minutes) FVLDV Assignment for next week: look through course readings and bring in 2 possible topics. Also bring to class EVERY week your two typed discussion questions. Week of January 18: Overview of Gender and Globalization Burn, Shawn Meghan. Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective, Chapters 1, chapter 6: pp , chapter 7, and Appendix: pp Enloe, Cynthia. Daughters and Generals in the Politics of the Globalized Sneaker, in Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically About Global Issues, Paula S. Rothenberg, ed. (New York: Worth Publishers, 2006): Rubenberg, Cheryl. The Foundation of Gender Identity: Garaba, Relational Connectivity, and Patriarchy, in Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically About Global Issues, Paula S. Rothenberg, ed. (New York: Worth Publishers, 2006): Week of January 25: Women, Work, and Globalization FILM: Maquilapolis ( minutes) FVLDV Burn, Shawn Meghan. Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective, Chapter 4 and p. 97, 99 and 102. Elias, Juanita. Women s Work in the Global Economy, in Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women, Janet Lee and Susan Shaw, eds. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2011): Darkwah, Akosua K. Trading Goes Global: Ghanaian Market Women in an Era of Globalization, in Global Gender Research: Transnational Perspectives, Chrintine Bose and Minjeong Kim, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2009): Salzinger, Leslie. Trope Chasing: Making a Local Labor Market, in Global Perspectives on Gender and Work, Jacqueline Goodman, ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010): Assignment for next week: Turn in paper topic, bibliography, and schedule of readings Week of February 1: Migration, Domestic Labor, and the Trade in Maids Paper topic, bibliography, and schedule of readings are due at the beginning of class Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Hochschild. Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, in Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically About Global Issues, Paula S. Rothenberg, ed. (New York: Worth Publishers, 2006): King, Russell. Migration and Gender, in People on the Move: An Atlas of Migration (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010): Constable, Nicole. Filipina Workers in Hong Kong Homes: Household Rules and Relations, in Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, eds.(new York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002): Lan, Pei-Chia. Among Women: Migrant Domestics and Their Taiwanese Employers Across Generations, in Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, eds. (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002):

4 Gamburd, Michele. Breadwinners No More: Masculinity in Flux, in in Global Perspectives on Gender and Work, Jacqueline Goodman, ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010): Week of February 8: Global Politics of Women s Bodies FILM: Beauty in China ( minutes) FVLDV Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Yearning for Lightness: Transnational Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners, in The Kaleidoscope of Gender, 3 rd ed., Joan Spade and Catherine Valentine, eds. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2011): Casanova, Erynn Masi De. No Ugly Women : Concepts of Race and Beauty Among Adolescent Women in Ecuador, Gender and Society vol. 18 no. 3 (June 2004): Casanova, Erynn Masi De. Women s Magazines in Ecuador: Re-reading La Chica Cosmo, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 22: Cullen, Lisa Takeuchi. Changing Faces, in Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women, Janet Lee and Susan Shaw, eds. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2011): Associated Press. Spain Bans Skinny Mannequins, in Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women, Janet Lee and Susan Shaw, eds. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2011): Goode, Erica. Study Finds TV Trims Fiji Girls Body Image and Eating Habits, in Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically About Global Issues, Paula S. Rothenberg, ed. (New York: Worth Publishers, 2006): Week of February 15: Sexual Trafficking: The Global Sexual Trade in Women FILM: Trading Women ( minutes) FVLV Fagan, Andrew. Sex Slavery, in The Atlas of Human Rights. (Berkeley: University of California): Farr, Kathryn. Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children (New York: Worth Publishers, 2005): chapter 1: pp. 1-9 and chapters 2, 3, and 5. Bales, Kevin. Thailand: Because She Looks Like a Child, in Global Perspectives on Gender and Work, Jacqueline Goodman, ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers): Leuchtag, Alice. Human Rights: Sex Trafficking and Prostitution, in Women s Voices, Feminist Visions, 3 rd ed, Susan Shaw and Janet Lee, eds. (New York, McGraw Hill): Chernush, Kay. Human Trafficking: A Photographic Essay in Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women s Lives, Human Rights, Debra Bergoffen, Paula Gilbert, Tamara Harvey, and Connie McNeely, eds. (New York: Routledge): ) Week of February 22: Worldwide Violence Against Women Farr, Kathryn. Militarized Rape and Other Patriarchal Hostilities: Fueling and Legitimating Male Demand for a Sex Trade, in Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children (New York: Worth Publishers, 2005): chapters 6 and 7. Fagan, Andrew. Domestic Violence; Rape; Female Genital Mutilation, in The Atlas of Human Rights (Berkeley: University of California): 76-79;

5 Henderson, Sarah and Alana Jeydel. Women and Sexual Violence During War and Women and Physical Autonomy, in Women and Politics in a Global World, 2 nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): Lynda Newland. Female Circumcision: Muslim Identities and Zero Tolerance Policies in Rural West Java, in The Kaleidoscope of Gender, 3 rd ed., Joan Spade and Catherine Valenined, eds. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2011): CBS News. The Use of Rape as a Weapon in Congo s Civil War, in Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women, Janet Lee and Susan Shaw, eds. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2011): Finn, Peter. Signs of Rape Scar Kosovo, in Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women, Janet Lee and Susan Shaw, eds. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2011): Eisler, Riane. Building Cultures of Peace: Four Cornerstones in Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women, Janet Lee and Susan Shaw, eds. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2011): Ferris, Elizabeth. Abuse of Power: Sexual Exploitation of Refugee Women and Girls, in Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women, Janet Lee and Susan Shaw, eds. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2011): Week of February 29: Transnational Feminism and Women s Rights as Human Rights FILM: Awakening: Empowering Women Through Microloans ( minutes) FVLDV Fagan, Andrew. Women s Civil Rights, in The Atlas of Human Rights. (Berkeley: University of California): Burn, Shawn Meghan. Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective, chapters 10 and 11. Rothenberg, Paula. A Sampling of NGOs Working for Social Change, in Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically About Global Issues, Paula S. Rothenberg, ed. (New York: Worth Publishers, 2006): United Nations Progress of the World s Women: In Pursuit of Justice, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. Weeks of March 7 and March 14: Individual Oral Presentations Final Paper Due by 10:30 a.m. at SSB 484 on Monday, March 19. 5