Final Essay
10/29 (M) Feminism & Globalization
· Barker & Feiner (2004) “Globalization Is a Feminist Issue”
10/31 (W) Transnational Feminism
· Desai (2007) “The Messy Relationship Between Feminisms and Globalizations”
· Talpade Mohanty (2011) “‘Under Western eyes’ revisited: feminist solidarity through anti-capitalist struggles”
· Brenner (2003) “Transnational Feminism and the Struggle for Global Justice”
11/5 (M) Saviorism Is Not Solidarity
· Abu-Lughod (2002) “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others”
· Naber (2016) “A Call for Consistency: Palestinian Resistance and Radical US Women of Color”
· Stoever (2006) “‘Haute Culture’ for Mail Order Missionaries: Representing the Third World Woman in the American Fashion Magazine”
11/7 (W) Gendered Relations & the Politics of Migration
· Ehrenreich & Hochschild (2011) “Global Women”
· Romero (2018) “Reflections on Globalized Care: Chain and Migrant Women Workers”
· Boris (2015) “Force and Shadow in the Making of Precarity”
11/12 (M) Bodies, Borders & State Violence
· Soto Arrington (2015) “Voice of an American Mexican”
· Abrego (2017) “On Silences: Salvadoran refugees then and now”
· Lynn (2016) “Gendered Transborder Violence in the Expanded United States-Mexico Borderlands”
11/14 (W) Cheap Labor / Disposable Women
· Livingston (2004) “Murder in Juarez: Gender, Sexual Violence, and the Global Assembly Line”
· Erevelles (2006) “Disability in the New World Order”
11/18 — 11/25 Thanksgiving Break
11/26 (M) Gender & the Environment
· Hartmann & Barajas-Roman (2011) “The population bomb is back — with a global warming twist”
· Bustamante, Peredo, & Udaeta (2005) “Women in the ‘Water War’: Cochabamba Valley”
In Class Film Screening:
World Without Water . Directed by Brian Woods. True Vision Productions, 2006.
11/28 (W) Subsidizing Neoliberal Globalization
· Vandenbeld Giles (2014) “Mothers of the World Unite: Gender Inequality and Poverty Under the Neo-Liberal State”
· Jaggar (2002) “Vulnerable Women and Neo-Liberal Globalization: Debt Burdens Undermine Women’s Health in the Global South”
· Peterson (2010) “Global Householding amid Global Crises”
12/3 (M) Digital Spaces of Resistance
· Sinno (2008) “Deconstructing the Myth of Liberation @riverbendblog.com”
· Keller, Mendes & Ringrose (2018) “Speaking ‘Unspeakable Things’: Documenting Digital Feminist Responses to Rape Culture”
· Gunn (2015) “Hashtagging from the Margins: Women of Color Engaged in Feminist Consciousness Raising on Twitter”
12/5 (W) Inclusive Organizing (
· Gökariksel & Smith (2017) “Intersectional Feminism Beyond U.S. Flag Hijab and Pussy Hats In Trump’s America”
· Nguyen (2013) “From SlutWalks to SuicideGirls: Feminist Resistance in the Third Wave and Feminist Era”