Gender, Power, and International Development

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
Introduction
1	Defining “Development”
Part 1: The Colonial Legacy: The Gendered Precedents of Development
2	The Colonial Legacy
3	The Colonial Legacy (cont.)
4	Colonial Images of “Native” Women and Men
5	Film: _First Contact _ Colonial Transformations of Gender
6	Women, Tradition and Modernism
7	Socialism and Post-Colonialism
8	Socialism and Post-Colonialism (cont.)
9	Film: Joe Leahy’s Neighbors	Paper due
Part 2: The Rise of Development Theory
10	Rise of Development Theory
11	Critics from within the Economic Frame
Part 3: Development and Daily Life
12	Film: Our Friends at the Bank
13	Development and Daily Life
14	Development and Daily Life (cont.)
15	Development and Bureaucracy
16	Knowledge and the Environment
17	The Complexities of Activism
18	Film: Black Harvest	Paper due (5-7 pages)
Part 4: Further into Daily Life: The Politics of Poverty outside the Development Frame
19	The Politics of Wage Labor
20	Drawing the Line Between First and Third Worlds?
21	Issues of Health Guest Speaker: Erica James
22	Issues of Health (cont.)
23	Film: Celso and Cora
24	Thinking More About Gender
25	Thinking More About Gender (cont.)
		Final paper due (2 Essay Questions; 8-10 Pages Total)