POLS 3560 Lecture Notes - Jon Runyan, Ananya (Actress), Social Reproduction
26 Mar 2014
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Pols 3560 fall/winter 2011/2012 ananya mukherjee-reed. Lecture 12 part i globalization and gender jan 17. Make up 2/3 of the world"s illiterate population. Comprise 2/3 of the exploited informal workforce. Own 1% of the world"s resources and earn 1/10 of the world"s income. Occupy only 18% of seats in the world"s parliaments. Violence kills more than twice as many women aged 15-44 every year than do. 80% of the world"s refugees are women and girls (unhcr 2002). malaria and war combined (who 2005). These questions imply that global restructuring represents nothing less than the construction, reconstruction, and transformation of categories of knowing, which tend to produce new gender biases as well as reifying others. ". Globalization is not natural" or larger than us". Globalization is a result of human acts. What is structure: persistent social practices made by collective human activity and transformed by collective human activity. Gender works at three levels: ideology, social relations, physicality.
