The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the field of gender stratification. The first part of the course will examine long-term changes in women's labor force participation and the division of labor between the sexes as societies industrialize. We consider theoretical work as well as empirical case studies of a number of countries ranging from Taiwan to Ireland. The second part of the course focuses on gender and work in highly industrialized societies, and includes empirical studies of the gendered division of labor in households and the labor market in the United States in particular. The structure of the course is lecture one day per week and detailed discussion and critique of selected readings on the second day.
Students take a mid-term exam and prepare a research proposal on some aspect of gender and work.
During the last two weeks of the course, students present synopses of their research proposals and we discuss and constructively critique them. 402 CID 306-389 Latin American Feminisms B. Mendoza. Latin American feminisms have failed to incorporate issues of race, sexual and cultural oppression fully into their political discourses. However, these issues are extremely important in Latin America to understand the workings of power and social injustice in these societies. The purpose of the course will be to explore the relevance of western feminist scholarship, queer and postcolonial theories to address issues of gender, class, race, ethnicity and sexuality in a Latin America context.