Gender and Globalization

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WGST 205-03: Gender and Globalization (3 Units) TuTh 10:00-11:15 AM, EC-034

Spring 2018 Instructor: Grace Kim Office Location: Humanities 212-A Office hours: MTuW 11:30 AM-12:45 PM, and by appointment Office phone: (657) 278-3888 Mailbox Location: Humanities 230 E-mail: [email protected] Course Description: This course explores the myriad ways in which globalization affects the lives of both women and men. Beginning with an overview of key terms and concepts such as neoliberalism, transnationalism, global economic restructuring, and militarism, we will examine a wide range of women’s and men’s local and transnational experiences of and responses to these global processes. Rather than view gendered subjects as “victims” or passive observers of the unequal global distribution of wealth, knowledge, and opportunity, we will consider the ways in which women and men actively work within and against the multiple processes that make up globalization. We will also consider how women and men across the world are interconnected via the processes of globalization. Course Themes:

1. Globalization is neither a new process nor experienced the same way by all people. 2. Identity affects experience. 3. Race, gender, and nationality shape our experiences of globalization. 4. Activism comes in many shapes and sizes.

Learning Goals and Outcomes Category E (formerly IV):

1. To understand globalization as a geographically and historically specific process that influences individuals, communities and nation states in complex and interrelated ways.

2. To examine the place-specific politics, economics, and social processes that underpin globalization and how individuals and societies both participate in and contest these processes.

3. To develop an awareness of globalization, culture, gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexuality as socially and culturally constructed and maintained.

4. To recognize that, because globalization increases interconnections and interdependences among people, it calls for a renewed sensitivity to the tremendous diversity of cultural and social experience.

5. To begin to understand globalization as taking place through an uneven and complex exchange of cultural and economic capital.

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Required Text: Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. New York: Farrar, Strauss and

Giroux, 2008. ** Required text available for purchase at the Little Professor bookstore. ** All other readings accessible as PDFs or weblinks on TITANium. Grading and Course Requirements: Attendance and Active Class Participation 10% Five 200-Word Turnitin Assignments (5% each) 25% (lowest grade will be dropped) In-Class Midterm Exam #1 20% Take-Home Midterm Exam #2 30% Reflection Essay (800 words) 15% *There is NO FINAL EXAM for this course. Each assignment is graded on a 100-point scale range. Scale: A 93-100 points C 73-75

A- 90-92 C- 70-72 B+ 86-89 D+ 66-69 B 83-85 D 63-65 B- 80-82 D- 60-62 C+ 76-79 F 59 points and below

Attendance and Participation constitute a significant portion of your grade. Arrive to each class session on time and stay for its duration. Tardiness, absences, and early departures will result in the lowering of your grade. If you must leave class early, let me know in advance. Active participation means thoughtful engagement with the readings/lectures, meaningful contributions to class discussions, and respectful collegiality toward your classmates and instructor. Visits to my office hours will also count toward your class participation grade. Turnitin Assignments: Five (5) 200-word response papers will be due electronically throughout the course of the semester. You will receive the writing prompt on TITANium a week before the due date. Midterm Exams: There will be two midterm exams; the first will be administered during class time, the second will be take-home. Both midterm exams will consist of short answer and/or essay questions. The first exam will focus on material covered between weeks 1 and 5. The second exam will focus on all material covered between weeks 7 and 12, but will ask you to integrate concepts and perspectives introduced during the first 5 weeks of class. A review sheet will be posted to TITANium and covered in class prior to the exam day/due date. Reflection Essay: The reflection essay will focus on the memoir A Long Way Gone. You will receive a writing prompt with instructions two weeks in advance of the due date.

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Policies: *All assignments must be completed and turned in by the specified due date and time. * Complete the reading(s) for the class session they are assigned, and, if possible, bring the text(s) with which we are currently covering to class *Late work will receive an automatic zero unless you can produce official documentation such as a doctor’s note that explains why you could not complete the assignments in a timely manner. *The best way to communicate with me outside of class and office hours is via email. If you email me, you MUST include the course title and section in the subject line (e.g., “Subject: WGST 205-03”), and a proper salutation and ending. If you fail to do so, I will not respond to your email. I generally respond to emails within 48 hours of receipt. *The use of cell phones and other electronic devices while class is in session is strictly prohibited. If I see you using your cell phone, tablet, laptop, or any other electronic device during class, you will not get credit for attendance on that day. Writing Help: In addition to the required individual meeting with me, I strongly encourage you visit me regularly for writing help. Of course, you can always consult the Writing Center for additional writing help: http://hss.fullerton.edu/english/wc/WCMain.html Academic Dishonesty: Academic dishonesty, including but not limited to plagiarism, is a violation of University Policy and will result in a failing grade and a report filed with the department chair and Student Services. *UPS 300.021: Plagiarism is defined as the act of taking the work of another and offering it as one’s own without giving credit to that source. When sources are used in a paper, acknowledgment of the original author or source must be made through appropriate references and, if directly quoted, quotation marks or indentations must be used. http://www.fullerton.edu/deanofstudents/judicial/Plagiarism.htm Special Accommodations: Students with disabilities should register with the Office of Disabled Students (http://hss.fullerton.edu/disabledservices/index.htm). In order to receive appropriate accommodations students must provide official documentation immediately. In the Event of an Emergency: Please visit the Campus Emergency Preparedness website (http://emergencypreparedness.fullerton.edu/default.htm) for more information on personal preparedness in the event of an emergency.

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Course Schedule (subject to change): NOTE: With the exception of the required text A Long Way Gone, ALL other readings are accessible on TITANium as PDF files or weblinks.

Week 1: Gender and Globalization: An Introduction Tu 1/23 Course Introduction Th 1/25 Judith Lorber, “The Social Construction of Gender,” in Women’s Voices,

Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings, 2nd ed., eds. Shaw and Lee (NY: McGraw Hill, 2004), pp. 54-65. (PDF)

Week 2: Gender and Globalization: Concepts and Theories Tu 1/30 Maxine Baca Zinn, et al, “Sex and Gender Through the Prism of Difference,” in Gender Through the Prism of Difference, 5th ed., eds. Zinn, et al (NY: Oxford, 2016), pp. 147-155. (PDF) Th 2/1 Saskia Sassen, “Global Cities and Survival Circuits,” in Global Woman:

Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, eds. Ehrenreich and Hochschild (NY: Holt, 2002), pp. 254-274. (PDF)

** Turnitin Assignment #1 DUE ON TITANium BY 5:00 PM, FRIDAY 2/2 ** Week 3: Transnational Care Work Tu 2/6 Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, “Maid in L.A.,” pp. 219-236. (PDF) Th 2/8 In-Class Film Screening: Maid in America (2005) Week 4: Transnational Motherhood Tu 2/13 Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, “The International Division of Reproductive Labor,” pp. 61-79. (PDF) Th 2/15 Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila, “I’m Here, But I’m There: The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood,” pp. 317-339.

(PDF)

** Turnitin Assignment #2 DUE ON TITANium BY 5:00 PM, FRIDAY 2/16 **

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Week 5: Globalization of Emotional Labor Tu 2/20 President’s Day #2 – No Class Meeting Th 2/22 Millian Kang, “The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and

Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons,” in Gender & Society, Vol. 17, 2003, pp. 820-837. (PDF)

Week 6: EXAM WEEK – NO NEW READINGS Tu 2/27 Midterm #1 Review Th 3/1 ** IN-CLASS MIDTERM EXAM #1 ** Week 7: Transnational Surrogacy Tu 3/6 Selections from France Winddance Twine, Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class, and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (NY: Routledge, 2011). (PDF) Th 3/8 In-Class Film Screening: Made in India (2011) Week 8: Global Reproductive Justice Tu 3/13 Selections from France Winddance Twine, Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class, and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (NY: Routledge, 2011). (PDF) Th 3/15 In-Class Film Screening: La operacíon (1983)

** Turnitin Assignment #3 DUE ON TITANium BY 5:00 PM, FRIDAY 3/16 **

Week 9: Gender and the Global Food System/Global Narcotics Trade Tu 3/20 Deborah Barndt, “Across Space and Through Time: Tomatl Meets the

Corporate Tomato,” from Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, 2nd edition (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), pp. 8-62. (PDF)

Th 3/22 TBD Week 10: Spring Recess – No Class Meeting

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Week 11: Genders in Production – On the Global Assembly Line Tu 4/3 In-Class Film Screening: Maquilapolis (2006) Th 4/5 Caroline Bank Munóz, The Tortilla Behemoth: Sexualized Despotism and Women’s Resistance in a Transnational Tortilla Factory,” in The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Repression and Women’s Poverty, eds.

Cabezas, et al. (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2007), pp. 127-139. (PDF)

** Turnitin Assignment #4 DUE ON TITANium BY 5:00 PM, FRIDAY 4/6 ** Week 12: Globalization and Gender-Based Violence Tu 4/10 Film: Senorita Extraviada (2001) Th 4/12 Sylvanna Falcón, “National Security Rape and the Violation of Women:

Militarized Border Rape at the US-Mexico Border,” in The Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, ed. INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (NY: South End Press, 2006), pp. 119-129. (PDF)

Week 13: Gender, War, and Militarization Tu 4/17 Cynthia Enloe, “Base Women,” from Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making

Feminist Sense of International Politics, 2nd ed. (Berkeley: UC Press, 2014), pp. 125-173. (PDF)

Th 4/19 In-Class Film Screening: The Women Outside (1996)

** Turnitin Assignment #5 DUE ON TITANium BY 5:00 PM, FRIDAY 4/20 ** Week 14: EXAM WEEK – NO NEW READINGS Tu 4/24 Midterm Exam #2 In-Class Review (exam prompt posted to TITANium and

distributed in class) Th 4/26 Office Hours – No Class Meeting

Week 15: Cultural “Glocalization” and Transnational Masculinities Tu 5/1 ** TAKE-HOME MIDTERM EXAM #2 DUE BY 11:59 PM **

In-Class Film Screening: Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (2006) Th 5/3 Manfred B. Steger, “Global Culture: Sameness or Difference?,” pp. 147-150. (PDF)

Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone, pp. 1-113.

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Week 16: Gender and Global Human Rights Tu 5/8 Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone, pp. 114-218. Th 5/10 Final Reflection Essay Discussion and Course Wrap-Up

** FINAL REFLECTION ESSAY DUE ON TITANium BY 5:00 PM ON FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018 **