[Discussion] UPDATE: Women, Development, and Global Capitalism (2/22/05; collection)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Women, Development, and Global Capitalism Reader

Due Date: February 22, 2005
Contact: wdgc@hotmail.com


As concerns about globalizing the curriculum permeate discussions of
feminist scholarship and women's studies, certain knowledge remains out
of the mainstream discourse(s) about women?s lives. This reader hopes to
draw from primarily the social sciences as well as the humanities
(including studies of art, poetry, music) to discuss the ways in which
women are confronting global capitalism, engendering the development
process, and pointing to grassroots indigenous feminist responses to
scarcity and oppression world wide. Within this framework essays dealing
with often ignored or undertheorized communities are of particular
importance.

Proposed essays should be thoroughly grounded in feminist, critical
race, and queer theories among others. They should state both their
methods and the importance of their study to the larger issue of women's
studies clearly and succinctly. Finally essays that highlight the
creative ways (starting their own businesses, banding together to
confront issues, artistic expression, etc.) women confront global
capitalism are of particular interest. As are those articles which put
women's own words and/or artistic expression at the forefront.

Topics
Trafficking (sex, drug, etc.) and women's roles
Water rights
Land Tenure
Art collectives (recovery art, film makers taking back ethnographic 		
voice, etc.)
Disability rights
HIV pandemic
Sex Work
Human Rights
Grassroots organizing (women?s rights broadly defined, lesbian and
	bi-women's rights, transsexual rights, etc)
Publishing (feminist zines, self-published tracts, etc.)
Reproductive Rights and/or uses and abuses of NRTs
Violence against women (domestic, sexual, military or government 		
initiated, legal, etc.)
Community based coops, child care, micro-lending, etc.
Marriage and/or partner benefits
Small enterprise
Education for girls (including but not limited to sex ed)
Migration (rural to urban, urban to urban, out-migration, internal
	migration)
Imagined and/or Diasporic Communities
Consumption
Music as critical voice for women (rap music - in Cuba or Brazil,
	reclamation of traditional musical forms, hybrid forms, etc.)
Class consciousness, conflict, coalition
Environmental degradation
ITs
Work (house work, domestic labor, service, corporate, etc.)

Questions and/or abstracts should be sent to wdgc@hotmail.com



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