Lesson Notes: Structure of Social Institutions - Globalizations

Admin:

• We have class on Thursday! You'll get a chance to show off your work, speak a couple of minutes about your work, etc. (not optional)
• Your final projects are due: Tuesday, May 21, 7pm (when your final exam is normally scheduled)
• If you make some kind of post about your final project, please give your post the label "Final Project Post"

Today's questions:

1. Is globalization bad for women? Explain.
2. Does "globalization" include free movements of people?
3. How is the position of women workers of the global south similar to a women's positions/status and work in western industrialized countries?
4. "Post-feminists"?
5. Slut shaming?

• Okin, Susan Moller. "Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?"Boston Review (1999). 
• student post on Okin
• Abu-Lughod, Lila. "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others." pp. 527-535.
• Enloe, Cynthia. "The Globetrotting Sneaker." pp. 512-516. 
• Hochschild, Arlie Russell. "Love and Gold." In Global Women: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Edited by Barbara Ehrenreich, and Arlie Russell Hochschild. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 2003. ISBN: 9780805069952. 

Where do we go from here?

• Sen, Amartya. "More than 100 Million Women Are Missing." The New York Review of Books 27, no. 20 (December 20, 1990).
• Aronson, Pamela. "Feminists or 'Postfeminists'? Young Women's Attitudes toward Feminism and Gender Relations." pp. 572-582.
• student post on Aronson

One of the central issues throughout the course has been the centrality of power-- specifically, the power to define peoples and individuals as different and "other" based on normative definitions of gender. We have turned this around by maintaining an intersectionist standpoint that includes race/ethnicity, class, and gender.