Required text:

• Maggie Black. 2010. The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development. New Internationalist.
• Nalini Visvanathan, Lynn Duggan, Nan Wiegersma and Laurie Nisonoff (editors). 2011. The Women, Gender & Development Reader (2 nd edition). London: Zed Books.
• In addition, we will have numerous readings available in Blackboard.

Reading schedule by week

Week 1: What is development?

• Seers, Dudley. 1979. The meaning of development. Pp 9-30 in D. Lehmann (ed) Development theory: Four critical studies. London: Frank Cass. In Blackboard
• Maggie Black. 2007 (2nd ed). The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development. Oxford: New Internationalist. Chapter 1, pp 10-30, 'The history of an idea').
• Become familiar with the course Web page--do 20 minutes or so of surfing, make sure you know what's there and how to use it--we will use it often in here, and if you're familiar with it, there will be less unpleasant surprises for you in class.

Online resources:

• Development--some background
• Development--assumptions, meanings
• A model of social change
• The role of colonialism
• What is structural adjustment lending?
• Week one wrap-up

Week 2: More development

• Keith Griffin. 1979. Underdevelopment in history. Pp 77-90 in C. Wilber (ed) The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment (2nd edition). New York: Random House. In Blackboard
• Maggie Black. 2009. The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development. Oxford: New Internationalist (chapter 2, 'Aid: The International Contribution,' pp 31-51, and chapter 3,  'Economic Development: Who benefits?' pp 52-73).
• Young, K. 1997. Gender and development. Pp 51-54 in N. Visvanathan, L. Duggan, L. Nisonoff, N. Wiegersma (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books. Electronic reserve or here.

Online resources:

• Gender and poverty
• Gender bias in development
• The evolution of the movement
• Systems of privilege
• Brief summary of week 2

Week 3: Gender and development

In the Women, Gender and Development Reader:

• Shirin M. Rai. 2011. Gender and development: Theoretical perspectives. Pp 22-28 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Wiegersma and Nisonoff (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books.
• Chandra Talpade Mohanty. 2011. Under Western eyes: Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses. Pp 83-88 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Wiegersma and Nisonoff (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books.
• Silvia Chant. 2011. The 'feminization of poverty' and the 'feminization' of anti-poverty programmes: Room for revision? Pp 174-89 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Wiegersma and Nisonoff (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books.

Other readings:

1. Boserup, E. 1970. Woman's role in economic development. London: Earthscan Publications. Pp 53-65, Chapter 3 (Loss of status under European rule).
2. Young, K. 1997. Gender and development. Pp 51-54 in N. Visvanathan, L. Duggan, L. Nisonoff, N. Wiegersma (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books. 

Lecture material:

• Gender bias
• Gender and poverty
• Very brief history of the evolution of the movement
• Systems of privilege
• Week 2 wrap-up
• Lecture outline

Week 4: Women and the environment

1. Boserup, E. 1970. Woman's role in economic development. London: Earthscan Publications. Pp 15-52, Chapters 1-2 ('Male and female farming systems,' 'The Economics of polygamy').
2. Women's Environment and Development Organization. 2011. Gender, climate change and human security: Lessons from Senegal. Pp 317-26 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Wiegersma and Nisonoff (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books.
3. Dianne E. Rocheleau. 1988. Women, trees and tenure: Implications for agroforestry. Pp 254-72 in Fortmann and Bruce (eds) Whose Trees? Proprietary Dimensions of Forestry. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Online resources:

• Women, the environment, and sustainable development
• Male and female farming systems
• Farming systems and division of labor
• Land tenure and property rights

Week 5: Women and work

• Hirschmann, David. 2007. From 'home economics' to 'microfinance': Gender rhetoric and bureaucratic resistance. Pp 71-86 inWomen and gender equity in development theory and practice (Jaquette and Summerfield, editors). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Hoodfar, Homa. 1997. Return to the veil: Personal strategy and public participation in Egypt. Pp 320-25 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Nisonoff and Wiegersma (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books. Electronic reserve (starts on pg 24 of the pdf)
• Sassen, Saskia. 2002. Global cities and survival circuits. Pp 254-74 in Ehrenreich and Hochschild (eds) Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. NY: Metropolitan/Owl. Electronic reserve (starts on pg 10 of the pdf)
• Susser, Ida. 1997. Women as political actors in rural Puerto Rico: Continuity and change. Pp 374-78 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Nisonoff and Wiegersma (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books. Electronic reserve (starts on pg 6 of the pdf)

Online resources:

• Rural-urban migration
• Informal economic sector
• Women and towns and work

Week 6: Action, change

• Louise Fortmann. 2007. In theory and in practice: Women creating better accounts of the world. Pp 191-202 in Women and gender equity in development theory and practice (Jaquette and Summerfield, editors). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Young, Kate. 1997. Planning from a gender perspective: Making a world of difference. Pp 366-75 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Nisonoff and Wiegersma (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books. Electronic reserve
• Rose, Kalima. 1997. SEWA: Women in movement. Pp 382-86 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Nisonoff and Wiegersma (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books. Electronic reserve (starts on pg 7 of the pdf)
• Kandiyoti, Deniz. 1997. Bargaining with patriarchy. Pp 86-92 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Nisonoff and Wiegersma (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books. Electronic reserve (starts on pg 5 of the pdf)

Week 7: Different approachs

• Drucker, David. 1986. Ask a silly question, get a silly answer--community participation and the demystification of health care. Pp 161-71 in D. Korten (ed) Community Management: Asian Experience and Perspectives. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press. Electronic reserve
• Chambers, Robert. 1986. Rural Development: Putting the Last First. London: Longman (chapter 1, ‘rural poverty unperceived’)
• Mackie, Gerry. 2003. A way to end female genital cutting. FGMNetwork. Online at http://www.fgmnetwork.org/articles/mackie1998.html
• Fiedrich, Mark. 2003. Maps turning to minefields: Local knowledge of PRA in a Ugandan village. Pp 68-74 in Cornwall and Pratt (eds Pathways to Participation. London: ITDG.

Week 8

Trafficking and migration

• Landesman, Peter. 2004. The girls next door. New York Times, January 25. Online at www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/magazine/25SEXTRAFFIC.html?ei=5007en=43dbe6ef76e45af8ex=1390366800.
• Kathryn Farr. 2005. Sex Trafficking. New York: Worth (Chapters 1-2). Electronic reserve
• Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Russell Hochschild (eds). 2002. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. ‘Migration Trends: Maps and Chart’ (pp 276-80, starts on pg 29 of pdf); ‘Activist Organizations’ (pp 281-84, starts on pg 33 of pdf).

Week 9: Ciudad Juarez: A case study

• Diana Washington Valdez. 2008. Harvest of women. Jan 31, El Paso Times.

Additional links:

• Resources
• Some background
• Juarez links and resources
• Juarez--some background
• Juarez--more background

Week 10: Group presentations of term projects