University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/wggp/
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Contact Information:
320 International Studies Building
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: 217-333-1994
Fax: 217-333-6270
E-mail: kcmartin@uiuc.edu
CENTER DESCRIPTION
The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives program (WGGP, formerly the WID Office) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign engages in and facilitates multidisciplinary, policy-oriented explorations of gender and international development issues. Our work centers on gender and global human security, which includes studies of income, property rights, health, and immigration. Because development means more than only meeting basic needs, WGGP also has adopted a second theme: gender, the arts, and social change.
AREA(S) OF EXPERTISE
Economic Development; Employment; Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development; Family; Global Issues; Health and Health Care; Human Security; Immigration; Work and Family
RECENT PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES
Gender and Transnational Networks. Ongoing Research Project and Symposium on October 17-19, 2002.
Globalization is changing immigration patterns and networks around the world and presenting new challenges for public policies. Gaps remain in our knowledge about whether women and men play different roles or utilize different social networks in promoting security, creativity, and community involvement for their families. This symposium brings together specialists from different fields to explore gender issues of transnational networks in cultural production, economy, technology, environment, and socio-political communities. Panels will address aspects of expressive activities, identity and hybridity; migration and mobility; human security; and networks across various boundaries. The discussions and publication of the papers presented will enhance understanding of the gendered dimensions of these issues as they relate to income, health, property rights, popular culture, artistic expression, freedom from violence, and the creation of safe, sustainable environments.
Risks and Rights in the 21st Century. Symposium held October 20-22, 2000.
The symposium focused on gender issues involved in the broad definitions of security and risk (including political, economic, environmental, and household-level issues) and rights (collective and individual aspects of human rights, property and other legal/customary rights, and international issues in political rights). Selected papers were published in the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society in September 2001.
Acting for Change: Chinese Women in Media and Politics. Symposium October 2000.
The symposium brought together ten specialists from Taiwan, Hong Kong, the People's Republic of China and the U.S. Films/videos, panels, and discussion allowed participants to explore how Chinese women in different environments are using media and politics to promote gender equity and challenge stereotypes.
Gender and Agribusiness Project (GAP). Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Gender and Agribusiness Project (GAP) is an activity of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program at the University of Illinois. The project creates model partnership agreements with international agribusiness firms to explore issues of economic growth related to women's employment in the agribusiness sector in developing countries, to document "best practices" that address gender-based constraints to women's employment and economic status, and to develop a partnership strategy for extension of these and other practices across the sector. Interested individuals will find more information on http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/gap.
Microenterprise, Nongovernmental Organizations, and the Environment. This workshop brought together specialists to discuss how recent changes in the use of housing and land for microenterprise both shape and are shaped by the environment. Participants explored how changes in land, housing and environmental policy influence the strategies of women, men, and their families. Researchers discussed how to identify the types of income-earning activities based in the home at the family/household and individual levels. The work of non-governmental organizations that support these activities while promoting "green" and minimizing "brown" environmental outcomes was also examined.
Special Public Lectures
Gale Summerfield, UI, Responding to the Attack on New York and Washington: Security, Retaliation, and Diplomacy: Gender and Development Issues, September 2001.
Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown University, Scenes from the Pacific Rim: Gender, Globalization and the Asian Diaspora, October 2002.
Stephanie Barrientos, IDS Sussex, Gender and Codes of Conduct in African Horticulture, March 2002.
Kathleen Cloud, UI, Codes of Conduct in Multinational Agribusiness: Three Case Studies, March 2002.
Rae Lesser Blumberg, University of Virginia, Using Qualitative Methods in Research on Global Gender Issues, Workshop March 2001.
Lourdes Benería, Cornell, Changing Employment Structures and Economic Insecurity: A Global Gender Perspective, October 2000.
Irene Tinker, University of California at Berkeley, Alternative Ways to Power: Women in International Development, September 1999.
Jane Jaquette, Occidental College, Women's Nongovernmental Organizations and the Broader Security Agenda, March 1999.
WGGP also organizes a seminar series, arranges special topics presentations, issues a newsletter each semester, and maintains a webpage, http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/wggp
PUBLICATIONS
Risks and Rights in the 21st Century:
WGGP symposium papers on human security available in the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 15(1), September 2001.
Introduction to the Symposium, Gale Summerfield, Symposium Guest Editor.
Risk, Gender, and Development in the 21st Century, Nahid Aslanbeigui and Gale Summerfield.
Shifting the Risk: New Employment Patterns, Informalization, and Women's Work, Lourdes Benería.
Sex, Maids, and Export Processing: Risks and Reasons for Gendered Global Production Networks, Jean L. Pyle.
Dangerous Places and Nimble Fingers: Discourses of Gender Discrimination and Rights in Global Corporations, Winifred R. Poster.
Historical Perspectives on Gender, Security, and Technology: Gathering, Weaving, and Subsistence in Colonial Mission Communities of Bolivia, Cynthia Radding.
Women's Capabilities and the Right to Education in Bangladesh. Mary Arends-Kuenning and Sajeda Amin.
Risks and Opportunities in Gender Gaps to Access Shelter: A Platform for Intervention, Faranak Miraftab.
Risky Business: What Happens to Gender Equality and Women's Rights in Post-Conflict Societies? Insights from NGOs in El Salvador, Rae Lesser Blumberg.
Feminists and Technocrats in the Democratization of Latin America: A Prolegomenon, Verónica Montecinos.
Women in Contemporary Democratization, Shahra Razavi.
Gender and Agribusiness Project (GAP)
Case Study, Cargill Zimbabwe. Kathleen Cloud, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1999), Paper for U.S. Agency for International Development, http://www.ups.uiuc.edu/gap/Zimcase.Fnl.html.
Gender and Agribusiness Project (GAP): Cargill Sun Valley Case Study (Thailand). John J. Lawler and Vinita Atmiuanandana (2000 ), Paper for U.S. Agency for International Development, http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/gap/pdf/sunvalley.pdf.
Gender and Agribusiness Project (GAP): Case Study, International Cheese Company - Paslek (Poland): A Joint Venture of OSM Paslek and Land O' Lakes. Hamish Gow (2001). Paper for U.S. Agency for International Development, http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/gap/pdf/poland.pdf.
The Employment of Rural Women in Mutlinational Agribusiness: Three Case Studies and Some Lessons Learned. Kathleen Cloud (2001), Final Report to U.S. Agency for International Development, http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/gap/finalreport.html.
Selected WGGP-facilitated Publications:
"The Impact of the Responsibility System on Women in Rural China: A Theoretical Application of Sen's Theory of Entitlement," (2001) Nahid Aslanbeigui and Gale Summerfield, reprinted from World Development 1989 in Lourdes Beneria with Savitri Bisnath, eds, Gender and Development: Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches, Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, UK: 359-366.
"Ester Boserup: 1910-1999," (2001), G. Summerfield, in N. Smelser and P. Baltes, eds, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pergamon: 1293-1295.
"The Asian Crisis, Gender, and the International Financial Architecture," Nahid Aslanbeigui and Gale Summerfield, Feminist Economics 6 (3), 2000:89-103.
Women's Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam, Irene Tinker and Gale Summerfield, eds, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, 1999.
"Housing Reform in Urban China: Gender Impacts and Strategies," Gale Summerfield and Nahid Aslanbeigui, in Women's Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam, Irene Tinker and Gale Summerfield, eds, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, 1999, pp 179-194.
"Gender, Self-Employment and Microcredit Programs: An Indonesian Case Study," Rosintan D.M. Panjaitan-Driyoadisuryo and Kathleen Cloud, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Special Issue, 1999.
"Explorations of Multilateral Development Agency Websites on Issues of Women and Rural Development," Donna Fisher and Kathleen Cloud, commissioned report for the World Bank, Rural Week, Washington, DC, 1998.
"A Modest Proposal for Inclusion of Women's Household Human Capital Production in the Analysis of Structural Transformation," Kathleen Cloud with Nancy Garrett, Feminist Economics, Fall, 2:3, Routledge, London, 1996, pp.93-120.
Capturing Complexity: An interdisciplinary look at women, households and development, Kathleen Cloud with R. Borooah, J. Peterson, A. Verma, K. Srinivason, and S. Seshadri, eds, Sage. New Delhi, India, London and Thousand Oaks, CA, 1994.
"Women, Households and Development: A Policy Perspective" and "Woman and Agriculture: Household-Level Analysis," Kathleen Cloud, in Capturing Complexity: An interdisciplinary look at women, households and development. Sage. New Delhi, India, London and Thousand Oaks, CA, 1994, pp. 60-83, 125-150.
WGGP Outreach:
Perspectives, the WGGP Newsletter, is published once each semester. It features a research summary by a graduate student or specialist in the women, gender and international development field; provides information on activities of faculty affiliates and student associates at UIUC; and announces conferences, publications and job openings. The paper is posted on the WGGP web page.
We're All In This Together: The GRID Concentration at the University of Illinois (2000), Video featuring former and current students of WGGP's graduate concentration, Gender Relations in International Development, discussing their research and applied work.
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