~Gender in Global Perspective~ ~

Date	Topic	Assignment	What's Due?	Additional Links
11/20	Globalization: The Export Industry	Burn pp. 170-173; 178-183 Pew Case #295 Sewing or Sex? Labor Migration in Thailand Available from The Pew Foundation
11/25	Globalization	Work on Assignment #6- We will meet in FH 423, the computer lab.	Assignment #6 due
12/2	--Candidate Presentation-- Sexual Orientation	No reading assignment
12/4	Sexual Orientation	Burn, Chapter 4	Assignment #7 due	Additional links that might be of interest to you: A Boy's Life Genes and Sexual Orientation Prostitution Trial Begins Amsterdam to Cut Brothels by Half
12/9	Sexual Orientation	A Lab Is Set to Test the Gender of Some Female Athletes Transvestites in Indonesia Turkish Cross-Dressers In Denial in Africa Lesbians in Africa Homosexuality in India Out of the Closet in Latin America In Conservative Nepal... A Lifestyle Distinct: The Muxe of Mexico
12/11	Sexual Orientation	Tying things together
12/16	Final Exam time 10:10-12:10		Assignment #8 due to me in my office by 12:10
8/26	Course Introduction	Syllabus
8/28	Stereotypes	In-class activity
September 9/2	Stereotypes		Assignment #1 due from in-class activity
9/4	Stereotypes	Burkina's Beauty Show Nigerian Beauty Pageant Local woman wins Miss World 2007 Angola to host landmine pageant	Italian Fashion Industry Italy bans 'No Anorexia' poster In the Land of Bold Beauty Doctors Fault Designers’ Stance French Bill Is size 0 really to blame?
9/9	Stereotypes	Wears Jump Suit
9/11	Stereotypes	Finish section Burn pp.266-270 Survey Feminisms
9/16	Women’s Status & Power	Burn Ch 2
9/18	Women’s Status & Power	Readings linked in Assignment #2	Assignment #2 due
9/23	Women’s Status & Power	If Men Could Menstruate If Men Could Menstruate 2 (video) Teaching about Being an Oppressor Saudi women challenge driving ban
9/25	No class---Work on Assignment #3 due 9/30
9/30	Women’s Status & Power: Politics	Burn pp. 225-231; 246-253; also p. 274 When Women Rule	Assignment #3 due	An additional link that might be of interest to you: Women in Politics
10/2	Women’s Status & Power: Religion	Burn pp. 190-213 The Meaning of Freedom Secularists' Lament Turkish MPs Plan Headscarf Reform		Additional links that might be of interest to you: Video: Sharia Law & Rape, Part II Concerns of Muslim Women Women in the Bible
10/7	Labor Issues	Burn - Ch 5
10/9	Labor Issues	Online readings: Jobs lure women abroad ILO: Work abroad empowers women Womenomics revisited EU gender pay gap 'not narrowing' Smashing the glass ceiling (just the story, not the comments)		Additional links that might be of interest to you: Parenthood in Sweden Equality Watchdog Sex & Power & Me Iranian Car for Women
10/14	Paper day off-we will not be meeting for class	I expect that you will have read Burn Ch 7 pp.170-186 and will be able to refer to this reading during forthcoming discussions
10/16	Globalization: Pornography	No reading assignment	Assignment #4 due
10/21	Fall Break
10/23	Globalization: Pornography
10/28	Globalization	Finish pornography discussion of these articles: Technology & Pornography Internet Porn Stats A different view of porn stats More stats Who’s exploited? Stalags Porn in Israel Porn in Japan Porn in Indonesia
10/30	Globalization: Migration Mail-order brides, sex tourism, trafficking	No reading assignment		Additional links that might be of interest to you: A Cruel Edge a critique of the pornography industry Somali Stoning Victim
11/4	Election Day
11/6	Globalization: Migration	Video discussion
11/11	Globalization: Migration	Domestic Service Burn pp. 173-178 Mail-order brides Russian women are different Elena's Models Wed to Strangers, Vietnamese Wives Build Korean Lives Find a Mail Order Bride Vietnamese Mail Order Bride How to Get a Mail Order Bride Migrant Women: Wives & Workers Trafficking Assam's missing women and the sex trade The Countertraffickers
11/13	Candidate's teaching presentation
11/18	Globalization: Prostitution	Amsterdam Tries Upscale Fix for Red-Light District Crime Prostitution and the Law Maureen * The men who sleep with prostitutes (just story, not comments) An acceptable career? (just story, not comments) Cycle of Drugs and Prostitution Prostitutes in Sweden Who Pays for Sex? If You Think...Think Again In the Windy City Can you Outlaw... Italy's Plans Beer, Banter, and a Brothel The Finns Managing Prostitution in the UK The Oldest Conundrum	Assignment #5	Additional links that might be of interest to you: Sharia force targets Nigeria sex workers EU deputies urged to forgo sex hotels, porn channels The Texas pole tax Prostitution Increases in India New decision in the UK

No reading assignment

Burkina's Beauty Show Nigerian Beauty Pageant Local woman wins Miss World 2007 Angola to host landmine pageant

Jobs lure women abroad ILO: Work abroad empowers women Womenomics revisited EU gender pay gap 'not narrowing' Smashing the glass ceiling (just the story, not the comments)

Additional links that might be of interest to you:

Burkina's Beauty Show
Nigerian Beauty Pageant
Local woman wins Miss World 2007
Angola to host landmine pageant

Jobs lure women abroad
ILO: Work abroad empowers women
Womenomics revisited
EU gender pay gap 'not narrowing'
Smashing the glass ceiling (just the story, not the comments)