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Globalization and Gender

Dr. Radha S. Hegde Office Hours: Tuesday 11-12 pm. Office: Pless Annex, 5th floor 28 Washington Place (entrance between bookstore & Pless Bldg) Phone: 212-998-9005 Email: radha.hegde@nyu.edu Course Description This course will examine how definitions of gender and sexuality are reproduced, negotiated and deployed in the context of globalization and transnational flows. We will examine key texts drawn from feminist/global cultural studies on the topics of citizenship, global labor flows, migration, militarization, neoliberalism and the construction of the gendered global subject. Through a reading of theoretical texts, ethnographic case studies and analysis of media representation, we will engage with questions of feminist epistemology and method research. Requirements Complete assigned readings each week and actively participate in the seminar. (30%) Lead two/three discussions during the course of the semester. (20%) Research paper (20 pages) that engages with the literature and explores an area of interest related to the larger themes of globalization/gender/sexuality. You will present this work in class on one of the assigned dates (April 17/24). Earlier in the semester, you will turn in a brief proposal outlining the rationale and area/topic of choice. The paper will combine theoretical discussion, rationale and data from research conducted on a specific question.. (50%) Fall 2007

This is a sample syllabus only. Syllabi vary among instructors and are subject to change.

Overview January 16

Discussion of themes/Ursula Biemann's visuals on globalization

Globalizing Gender studies January 23 Appadurai. A. (1990). Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy. Public Culture 2 (2) Spring 1-24. Bergeron, S. (2001). Political economy discourses of globalization and feminist politics. Signs: Journal of women in culture and society 26 (4): 983-1005. Freeman, C. (2001). Is local:global as feminine:masculine? Rethinking the gender of globalization. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 26 (4): 1007-1037. Katz, C. (2001)On the grounds of globalization: A topography for feminist political engagement. Signs: Journal of women in culture and society 26 (4):1213-1233. Altman, Dennis (2001). Intro and Many faces of globalization. From D. Altman Global Sex . Chicago: University of Chicago Press Gender and Cultural geographies January 30 Friedman, S. (2001). Locational feminism: Gender, cultural geographies and geopolitical literacy. In M. DeKoven (Ed.) Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice 13-36). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University press. Moallem, M. 1999. Transnationalism, feminism, and fundamentalism. In C Kaplan, N. Alarcon, and M. Moallem (Eds.) In Between woman and nation,. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Kaplan, C. (2003) Transporting the subject: Technologies of mobility and location in an era of globalization. In S. Ahmed, C. Castaneda, A, Fortier & M. Sheller (Eds). Uprootings/Regroundings. Oxford: Berg. Kaplan, Caren, and Inderpal Grewal. 1994. Transnational feminist cultural studies: Beyond Marxism/poststructuralism/feminism divides. Positions 2 (2): 430-445. Andrijasevic, R. (2003). The difference borders make: (Il)legality, migration and trafficking in Italy among eastern European women in prostitution. In S. Ahmed, C. Castaneda, A, Fortier & M. Sheller (Eds). Uprootings/Regroundings. Oxford: Berg.

Labor and Migration February 6 Barndt, Deborah. (2002). Tangled Routes: Women, work and globalization on the tomato trail Lanham: Rowman Littlefield..

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February 13 Parreaas, Rhacel Salazar (2001). Transgressing the nation state: The partial citizenship and "Imagined global community: of migrant Filipina Domestic workers. Signs 26 (4) , 1129-1154. Sassen, Saskia (2004). Global cities and survival circuits. In B. Ehrenreich and A. Hochschild (Ed) Global Woman. (254-275). New York: Metropolitan Books. Sassen, Saskia ( 2003) Strategic instantiations of gendering in the global economy. In Hondagneu-Sotelo, P. Gender and US Immigration: Contemporary trends. 43-63. University of California press. Freeman, C. (1993). Designing women: Corporate Discipline and Barbadoss Off-shore pink-collar sector. Cultural Anthropology 8 (2) 169-86. Colen, S. (1995). Like a mother to them: Stratified reproduction and west Indian childcare workers and employers in New York. From F. Ginsberg & R. Rapp (Eds). Conceiving the new world order: Global politics of reproduction. Berkeley: University of Ca press. Mapping Difference February 20 Scott, Joan W (2002) Feminist Reverberations. differences: A journal of feminist cultural studies. 13(3): 1-23. Mohanty, C.T. (1991). Under Western Eyes. In C. Mohanty & A. Russo & L. Torres (Ed.) Third world women and the politics of feminism (pp. 51-80 ). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Mohanty, C. (2003) Under Western Eyes Revisited Signs 28 (2) 499-535. De Leeuw & Van Wichlen. (2005) Please,go wake up: Submission, Hirsi Ali and the war on terror in the Netherlands. Feminist Media Studies 5 (3) 325-340 Gendered subject of neoliberalism February 27 Oza, R. 2001. Showcasing India: Gender, geography and globalization. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 26 (4): 1067-1095. McRobbie, A. (2004) Post-feminism and popular culture. Feminist Media Studies 4(3): 255-264. Banet Weiser, S. (1999). Bodies of difference: race, nation and the troubled reign of Vanessa Williams. From Banet-Weiser The most beautiful girl in the world LA: University of California Press Siu, Lok (2005) Queen of the Chinese Colony: Gender, nation and belonging in diaspora Anthropological Quarterly 78.3 (2005) 511-542 Ossman, Susan (2005). Media, bodies and spaces of ethnography: Beauty salons in Casablanca, Cairo and Paris. In N. Couldry, A. McCarthy (Eds). MediaSpace. London: Routledge.

Sexuality and citizenship March 6

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Alexander, M. J. 1998. Imperial desire/sexual utopias: White gay capital and transnational tourism. In Talking visions: Multicultural feminism in transnational age, edited by E. Shohat. New York: MIT Press. Puar, J. K. (2002). Circuits of queer mobility: Tourism, travel and globalization. GLQ, 8 (1-2) 101-137. Gregory, S. (2007) Sex Tourism and the political economy of masculinity. Chp. 4 from S. Gregory The devil behind the mirror. 130-165) Berkeley: Univ. of Ca press Decena, Shedlin, & Martinnez (2006) Los Hombres no Mandan aqui: Narrating immigrant genders and sexualities in New York. Social Text Social Text 24(3 88): 35-54 Social Text Social Text 24(3 88): 35-54 Turnovsky, C. (2006) A la Parada: The social practices of men on a street . Social Text 24(3 88): 55-72 Grewal, I, and Kaplan, C.. 2001. Global identities: Theorizing transnational studies of sexuality. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 7 (4): 663-679.

March 13 No class/spring break Theorizing exclusions March 20 Habermas, J. (1989) The Public sphere: An encyclopedia article. In S.E. Bronner & D. Kellnner (Eds). Critical theory and society: A reader, (pp. 136-142). NY: Routledge Hawkesworth, M. (2001) Democratization: Reflections on gendered dislocations in the public sphere. From Kelly, Bayes, Hawkesworth & Young (Eds.) Gender, globalization & democratization 223-236, NY: Rowman & Littlefield Benhabib, S. (2002). Multiculturalism and gendered citizenship. From S. Benhabib The claims of culture. 82-104. Princeton: Princeton Univ Press. Gole, N. (2002). Islam in Public: New visibilities and new imaginaries. Public Culture 14 (1) 173-190. McLaughlin, L. (2004). Feminism and the political economy of transnational public sphere. Sociological Review 156-175

Spring Break March 27 To Be Announced Media, Veiled Debates & Militirization April 3 Stabile, C. and Kumar, D. Unveiling Imperialism: Media, Gender, and the War on Afghanistan, Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 27, no. 5, September, 2005 Ware, Vron. Info-war and the politics of feminist curiosity. Exploring new frameworks of intercultural studies. Cultural Studies 20 (6) 526-551.

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McDonald, M. (2006). Muslim women and the veil: Problems of image and voice in media representation. Feminist Media Studies 6 (1) 7-23. Young, I. M. (2003) The logic of masculinist protection: Reflections on the current security state. Signs, 29(11): 1-25. Ayotte & Husain (2005). Securing Afghan women: Neocolonialism, epistemic violence and the rhetoric of the veil. NWSA Journal 17 (3) 112-133 Critical Interventions, Methodological Issues April 10 Narayan, U. (1997). Through the looking-glass darkly: Emissaries, mirrors and authentic insiders as preoccupations; From Narayan, Dislocating cultures NY: Routledge. . Spivak, G. (2002) Postcolonial scholarship-Productions and Directions: An interview with Gayatri Spivak by R S. Hegde & R. Shome. Communication Theory 12:3: 271-286. Hegde, R. (2006) Hegde, R. Globalizing Gender Studies in Communication. In B.J. Dow and J.T. Wood (Eds.) Handbook on Gender and Communication. ((433-449). Thousand Oaks: Sage. April 17 April 24 Presentations Presentations ALL PAPERS DUE IN CLASS