WS 580 Women and International Development            Spring 1993
San Diego State University
Dr. Barbara Watson                                Office Hours:
Office: AH 3142  Phone: 594-3738                  T   1:00 - 3:00
BWatson@sciences.sdsu.edu                         Th 12:30 - 1:30
                                                  & by appointment

Course Objectives:

1. To gain understanding of basic factors affecting the lives and
   interactions between women from the "Third" and "First" World.

2. To familiarize ourselves with the present state of theories and
   methodologies dealing with women and development.

3. To gain understanding of the impact of sexist and ethnocentric
   biases on development planning and the results of such planning.

4. To familiarize ourselves with some of the main contexts affected
   by and affecting development, such as the environment, family
   organization, work in the formal and informal sector, education,
   health and fertility, food and hunger, women and power.

5. To gain understanding of how gender and ethnicity shape modern
   concepts of self-determination.

Texts:

Bunster, Ximena and Elsa M. Chaney. 1989. Sellers and Servants.
Working Women in Lima, Peru. Bergin & Garvey Publishers.

Gallin, Rita S. and Anne Ferguson, ed. 1991. The Women and
International Development Annual, Vol. 2. Westview Press.

Markandaya, Kamala. 1982 [1954]. Nectar in a Sieve. New American
Library.

Martin, Susan Forbes. 1991. Refugee Women. Zed Books.

Rogers, Barbara. 1981 [1979]. The Domestication of Women.
Discrimination in Developing Societies. Routledge.


Course Outline

1/26, 28       Introduction to and Organization of Course

2/2,4*         Meaning, Significance and Definitions of
               "Development" (Gallin: Introduction, 6).
               Film: "Rural and Urban Poverty" (1977; 23 min.).

2/9, 11*       Theory and Methodology (Gallin: 4; Rogers: 2, 3,
               4).

2/16, 18*      Environmental Issues (Gallin: 1).

2/23, 25*      Education (Gallin: 5).
               Film: "The Children Know" (1974; 34 min.).

3/2, 4, 9*     Women and Work (Bunster and Chaney: Introduction,
               1, 2; Gallin: 2; Rogers: 1, 7).
               Film: "It Happened in Haulfin" (1974; 16 min.).

3/11, 16, 18*  Families (Bunster and Chaney: 3, 4; Gallin: 3).

3/23, 25       Women's Lives in India (Markandaya).
               Film: "Global Village" (1985; 57 min.).

3/30           Exam

4/1            Final Paper: Discussion of format and content.

4/13, 15, 20*  Women, Resources and Power (Gallin: 7; Rogers: 5,
               6, 8).

4/22, 27*      The Issue of Self-Determination: The Refugee
               Experience (Martin).

4/29, 5/4, 6,  Reports.
11, 13.

* - Discussion Day.