Gender, Globalisation and Development

This subject examines the relationships between gender, globalisation and development, illustrated principally through case studies, policy documents, and ethnographic texts. It also draws theoretical perspectives and insights from a number of social science and humanities disciplines as well. On completion of the subject students should have an understanding of problems of writing about gender and difference: debates on modernity, globalisation, and development: gender, colonialism and postcolonialism; gender, politics, and the state; masculinities, femininities and sexualities; gender and labour; gender and development agencies; gender, religion and development; gender, sexuality, rights and transnational migration.

• 1Understand the concepts of gender and globalisation, as well as class, ethnicity, cultural diversity, feminism, colonialism, postcolonialism, modernity and neoliberalism
• 2Understand the gendered nature of the macrostructural processes of globalisation.