GWS 102 Midterm


Arrogant Perception (WEEK 2)


organizes the world and everything in it with regard to the perceiver's desires and interest.ex: media representation of another country as primitiveassociated with: the construction of 'third world women/feminism'


Intersectionality


various socially and culturally constructed categories of discrimination interact on multiple levels, contributing to systematic social inequality.associated with: feminism


Orientalism


A way of constructing and representing the regions, peoples and customs of the"orient" that: describes that regiondefines its opposite-the westemphasizes the link between power and knowledgelegitimizes the "civilizing mission"


the "Other"


When such representations are covered (cover minority communities only when acts of 'deviance' take place)How such representations are portrayed (devoid of social, political and historical context)


Hybridity


No one is a product of uncontaminated cultures


Non-Aligned Movement


Third World (1955)


Bandung Conference


Third World (1955)


Global Gender Gap


Measured w/UN millennium report 2006world economic forum study 2005 & 2006-economic participation and opportunity-political empowerment-education attainmenthealth and well beingworld bank development report 2006unicef gender inequality report 2007


UN's women's Conferences


Mexico City, Mexico 1975Copenhagen, Denmark 1980Nairobi, Kenya 1985Beijing, China 1995
United Nations Decade for Women 1975-1985


World Social Forums


2001-2003 Porto Alegre, Brazil2004 Mumbai, India2005 Porto Alegre, Brazil2006 Karachi, Pakistan; Bamako, Mali, Caracas, Venezuela2007 Nairobi, Kenya


Colonialism (WEEK 3 & 4)


The domination of a territory and its people by foreign power for an extended period of time.


Imperialism


related to colonialism


Baartman


ex. of objectificationher representaion in the mediaher physical appearance was different than english womendemocrating a diff. btw. civilized women and savage womenshe was a commodity


Khoi Khoi


The tribe Baartman belonged to


Cuvier


Cezar


The Gaze


Kinds of looking operates within a racial system that permits only some kind of looking


Visual representation during high imperialism


High imperialism 1850-1915Mass-production of images of colonized peoples:live displays of primitive people at the exhibitsphotos/paintings


National Geographic-defines American civilization


to bring the remote corners of the earth into amercan homes

images are constructed rather than found


World Fairs


Coincided with the renewal of European expansion during seconf half of 19th centuryOriginally designed to promote tradeAttendance was spectacular


Freak Show


Ethnological Exhibitions


Ppl were set up as an exhibit with their surroundings being their "natural habitat"

expanded trade and commerce and the capitalist enterprise/market


Social constructioins of race and gender


Development (WEEK 5)


Structural Adjustment Program-SAP's


Macro-economicSteucturally adjust economy-rule of the market-privitization -trade liberalizationGendered Effects-sexual division of labor-feminization of poverty-women bear burden for reduced welfare-growing demand for global assembly line labor and for domestic care-based labor


Women and Develoment (WAD)


Framework for gender development


Women in Development (WID)


Framework for gender development


Gender and Development (GAD)


Framework for gender development


Neo-liberalism


NAFTA


Trade liberalization TreatyAn idealized market model in which trade of goods and services between countries flows unhindered by goverment-imposed tariffs and non-tariff barriersInternational "free trade" agreementUS,Mexico, Canada


World Bank


International Monetary Fund (IMF)


World Trade Organization (WTO)


Bretton woods


Conference 1944The birth of the IMF,WTO, & the World Bank


Privitization


One of the pillars of IMF/WB economic policyWashington Consensus


CEDAW


Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women1979


UN Convention on Women


Development Decade


The first Development Decade 1961-1970The second Development Decade 1970-1980The 4 UN womens world conferences1975-1985


Esther Boserup


Women's Rights are Human Rights


Washington Consensus (WEEK 6)


IFI


TrinityWBIMFWTO


The world is flat


Trickle-down economics


Gross Domestic Product (GDP)


Tells us if were in a recession or nota measure of growth


Gross National Product


Grameen Bank


Globalization 1.0, 2.0, 3.0


Export Crdit Agencies


Economic Liberalism


Economic Neo-liberalism


The rule of the marketcutting public expendituresdegregulationprivitizationemphasizing individual responsibility (rater than public good)


Sustainable development


Trade Liberalization (WEEK 7)


An idealized market model in which trade of goods and services between countries flows unhindered by goverment-imposed tariffs and non-tariff barriers


Export Processing Zones (EPZ's)


Do not help the local economyNo export/import dutiesTax free zoneLow wageNo unionizationRelatively lax environmental/labor standards


Sweatshops


A shop factory that includes long hours, low wages, hazardous working conditions, denial of basic human rights


Outsourcing


Home-sourcing


Maquiladoras


Predominantly foreign-owned corporations that assemble products in Mexico using mexican labor and foreign inputs for subsequent export


Bracer Program


History of Maquiladoraswas shutdown ;undocumented immigrants


Border Industrialization Program


AKA Maquiladora Program


Branding


Swallow factories


Flexibilization and Informalization of labor


Avenues of Capitalist Expansion


Contracting and Sub-contracting


Avenues of Capitalist Expansion


Degraded Production


Cavite


Feminization of Migration (WEEK 8)


Global Domestic Labor Flows


"Push" and "Pull" Factors of Domestic Labor


Gendered Dimensions of Labor Migration


Remittances


Transnational Motherhood