Capitalism and Gender
Week 1.
Introduction
The Gendering of Labor in the Early Phases of Industrialization
Maxine Berg, "Women's work, mechanisation and the early phases of industrialisation in England," in The Historical Meanings of Work, Patrick Joyce, ed. (1987)
Jean H. Quataert, "The Shaping of Women's Work in Manufacturing: Guilds, Households, and the State in Central Europe, 1648-1870." American Historical Review, vol 90 #5 (December 1985) 1122-
Merry E. Wiesner, "Guilds, Male Bonding and Women's Work in Early Modern Germany." Gender and History vol. 1 no. 2 Summer 1989 125-138.
Week 2.
Pre-Fordist Dynamics of Consumption
Neil McKendrick, John Brewer and J.H. Plumb, The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England (Indiana: IUP, 1982), chs 1 and 2.
Amanda Vickery, "Women and the World of Goods: a Lancashire Consumer and her Possessions, 1751-1781," in John Brewer and Roy Porter, eds. Consumption and the World of Goods (London and New York: Routledge, 1993): 272-301.
Masculinity and Femininity of Labor
Leora Auslander, "Perceptions of Beauty and the Problem of Consciousness: Parisian Furniture Makers," in Lenard Berlanstein, ed. Rethinking Labor History: Essays on Discourse and Class Analysis (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993), pp. 149-181.
Ava Baron, "Questions of Gender: Deskilling and Demasculinization in the U.S. Printing Industry, 1830-1915." Gender and History 1 (Summer 1989): 178-99.
Cynthia Cockburn, "Cold composition," Chapter 4 in her Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change (London: Pluto, 1983),
Week 3.
Responding to the Transformation of Labor: Early Unionization
Barbara Taylor, "'The Men are as Bad as their Masters...'Socialism, Feminism, and Sexual Antagonism in the London Tailoring Trade." Feminist Studies 5/1 (1979).
Elizabeth Faue, "'The Dynamo of Change': Gender and Solidarity in the American Labour Movement of the 1930s," Gender and History 1,2 (Summer 1989) 138-158
Keith McClelland, "Masculinity and the 'Representative Artisan' in Britain, 1850-1880." in Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britain since 1800 (London: Routledge, 1991)
Week 4
Fordism and the Gendered Division of Labor
Marilyn Boxer, "Protective Legislation and Home Industry: The Marginalization of Women Workers in Late 19th-Early 20th Century France," JSH 20: 1 (Fall, 1986).
Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950, start
Race, Gender, and Unions
Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950, finish.
Week 5
Labor and Leisure under Fordism
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York Philadelphia: Temple, 1986
Thomas Richards, The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914 (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1990), ch. 5.
PostFordism and the Gendered division of Labor
McDowell L. "Life without father and Ford: the new gender order of postFordism," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 16 (1991) 400-419.
Morris, Meaghan, "The man in the mirror: David Harvey's 'condition' of postmodernity," theory, culture and society 9 (1992): 253-279.
Ong, Aihwa. "The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity," Annual Review of Anthropology 20 (1991): 279-309.
M. Patricia Fernandez Kelley, "Delicate Transactions: Gender, Home and Employment among Hispanic Women," in Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture, ed. Faye Ginsburg and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (Boston: Beacon Press, 1990): 183-195.
Week 6
PostFordism and the International division of Labor, 1
Annie Phizacklea, Unpacking the fashion industry (London: Routledge, 1990)
PostFordism and the International division of Labor,2
Mies, Maria Accumulation and Patriarchy on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour (London: Zed, 1986)
Nash, June and Fernandez-Kelly, ed. Women, Men and the International Division of Labor (Albany: SUNY, 1983)
Fernandez-Kelly, Maria Patricia. 'For We Are Sold, I and My People': Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier (Albany: SUNY Press, 1983)
Week 7
New Forms of Organized Labor/Resistance
Ong, Aihwa. Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (Albany: SUNY, 1987)
Gendered Bodies: Consumption as a Site of Resistance or Oppression?
Judith Williamson, Consuming Passions: The dynamics of popular culture (London: Marion Boyars, 1988)
Gail Faurschou, "Fashion and the cultural logic of postmodernity," in Kroker and Kroker Body Invaders: Panic Sex in America (New York: St. Martin's, 1987)
Jane Gaines, "Introduction: Fabricating the Female Body." in Fabrications: Costume and the Female Body, Jane Gaines and Charlotte Herzog, eds. (London: Routledge, 1990), 1-29.
Alan Tomlinson, Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, meanings, and the packaging of pleasure (London: Routledge [Comedia] 1990)
Week 8
Sex Tourism
Than-Dam Troung, Sex, Money and Morality: Prostitution and Tourism in South East Asia (London: Zed Books, 1990)
Marxist-Feminist Theory, 1
Michèle Barrett, Women's Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter London and New York: Verso, 1980, 1988,
Week 9
Marxist Feminist Theory, 2
Johanna Brenner and Maria Ramas, "Rethinking Women's Oppression," New Left Review, no. 144 (March-April, 1984): 33-71.
Michèle Barrett, "Rethinking Women's Oppression: A Reply to Brenner and Ramas," New Left Review, no. 146 (July-August, 1984): 123-128.
M. Barrett and M. McIntosh, "The 'family wage': some problems for socialists and feminists." Capital and Class, 11 (1980): 51-72.
Marxist-Feminist Theory, 3
Chantal Mouffe, "The Legacy of m/f" in The Woman in Question, ed. Parveen Adams and Elizabeth Cowie (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990) pp. 3-5
Teresa L. Ebert, Ludic Feminism and After: Postmodernism, Desire, and Labor in Late Capitalism (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996)
Martha E. Giménez, "The Oppression of Women: A Structuralist Marxist View"
Nancy Hartsock, "The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism." in her Money, Sex and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism (Boston: Northeastern University Press, )
Chantal Mouffe, "The Legacy of m/f" in The Woman in Question, ed. Parveen Adams and Elizabeth Cowie (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990) pp. 3-5
Joan Acker, Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class, and Pay Equity (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1989), Ch. 6. "Doing Comparable Worth: Theorizing Gender and Class"
Ellen Meiksins Wood, "Capitalism and Human Emancipation: Race, Gender and Democracy," in her Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism (Cambridge: CUP, 1995), 264-83.
Week 10
The Sears Case
Joan Scott,
Narrative Accounts
Carolyn Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives (1986)
Week 1.
Introduction
The Gendering of Labor in the Early Phases of Industrialization
Maxine Berg, "Women's work, mechanisation and the early phases of industrialisation in England," in The Historical Meanings of Work, Patrick Joyce, ed. (1987)
Marilyn Boxer, "Protective Legislation and Home Industry: The Marginalization of Women Workers in Late 19th-Early 20th Century France," JSH 20: 1 (Fall, 1986).
Jean H. Quataert, "The Shaping of Women's Work in Manufacturing: Guilds, Households, and the State in Central Europe, 1648-1870." American Historical Review, vol 90 #5 (December 1985) 1122-
Merry E. Wiesner, "Guilds, Male Bonding and Women's Work in Early Modern Germany." Gender and History vol. 1 no. 2 Summer 1989 125-138.
Week 2.
Masculinity and Femininity of Labor
Leora Auslander, "Perceptions of Beauty and the Problem of Consciousness: Parisian Furniture Makers," in Lenard Berlanstein, ed. Rethinking Labor History: Essays on Discourse and Class Analysis (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993), pp. 149-181.
Ava Baron, "Questions of Gender: Deskilling and Demasculinization in the U.S. Printing Industry, 1830-1915." Gender and History 1 (Summer 1989): 178-99.
Cynthia Cockburn, "Cold composition," Chapter 4 in her Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change (London: Pluto, 1983),
Keith McClelland, "Masculinity and the 'Representative Artisan' in Britain, 1850-1880." in Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britain since 1800 (London: Routledge, 1991)
Merry E. Wiesner, "Guilds, Male Bonding and Women's Work in Early Modern Germany." Gender and History vol. 1 no. 2 Summer 1989 125-138.
Responding to the Transformation of Labor: Early Unionization
Barbara Taylor, "'The Men are as Bad as their Masters...'Socialism, Feminism, and Sexual Antagonism in the London Tailoring Trade." Feminist Studies 5/1 (1979).
Elizabeth Faue, "'The Dynamo of Change': Gender and Solidarity in the American Labour Movement of the 1930s," Gender and History 1,2 (Summer 1989) 138-158
Week 3.
Fordism and the Gendered Division of Labor
Race, Gender, and Unions
Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950.
Week 4
The Labor of Consumption under Fordism
M. Patricia Fernandez Kelley, "Delicate Transactions: Gender, Home and Employment among Hispanic Women," in Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture, ed. Faye Ginsburg and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (Boston: Beacon Press, 1990): 183-195.
Women for Sale/Images of Women to Sell
Week 5
PostFordism and the Gendered division of Labor
McDowell L. "Life without father and Ford: the new gender order of postFordism," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 16 (1991) 400-419.
Morris, Meaghan, "The man in the mirror: David Harvey's 'condition' of postmodernity," theory, culture and society 9 (1992): 253-279.
Ong, Aihwa. "The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity," Annual Review of Anthropology 20 (1991): 279-309.
Bagguley, Paul et al eds. Restructuring: place, class, gender (London: Sage, 1990)
PostFordism and the International division of Labor
Mies, Maria Accumulation and Patriarchy on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour (London: Zed, 1986)
Nash, June and Fernandez-Kelly, ed. Women, Men and the International Division of Labor (Albany: SUNY, 1983)
Fernandez-Kelly, Maria Patricia. 'For We Are Sold, I and My People': Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier (Albany: SUNY Press, 1983)
Week 6
New Forms of Organized Labor/Resistance
Ong, Aihwa. Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (Albany: SUNY, 1987)
Consumption as Resistance?
Week 7
Sex Tourism
Than-Dam Troung, Sex, Money and Morality: Prostitution and Tourism in South East Asia (London: Zed Books, 1990)
Baby Markets
Viviana A. Zelizer, ch. 6 "From Baby Farms to Black-Market Babies: The Changing Market for Children" Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children (Princeton: PUP,)
Week 8
Marxist-Feminist Theory, 1
Michèle Barrett, Women's Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter London and New York: Verso, 1980, 1988,
Michèle Barrett, "Rethinking Women's Oppression: A Reply to Brenner and Ramas," New Left Review, no. 146 (July-August, 1984): 123-128.
M. Barrett and M. McIntosh, "The 'family wage': some problems for socialists and feminists." Capital and Class, 11 (1980): 51-72.
Johanna Brenner and Maria Ramas, "Rethinking Women's Oppression," New Left Review, no. 144 (March-April, 1984): 33-71.
Marxist-Feminist Theory, 2
Chantal Mouffe, "The Legacy of m/f" in The Woman in Question, ed. Parveen Adams and Elizabeth Cowie (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990) pp. 3-5
Teresa L. Ebert, Ludic Feminism and After: Postmodernism, Desire, and Labor in Late Capitalism (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996)
Martha E. Giménez, "The Oppression of Women: A Structuralist Marxist View"
Nancy Hartsock, "The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism." in her Money, Sex and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism (Boston: Northeastern University Press, )
Chantal Mouffe, "The Legacy of m/f" in The Woman in Question, ed. Parveen Adams and Elizabeth Cowie (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990) pp. 3-5
Joan Acker, Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class, and Pay Equity (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1989), Ch. 6. "Doing Comparable Worth: Theorizing Gender and Class"
Ellen Meiksins Wood, "Capitalism and Human Emancipation: Race, Gender and Democracy," in her Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism (Cambridge: CUP, 1995), 264-83.
Week 9
The Sears Case
Joan Scott,
Narrative Accounts
Carolyn Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives (1986)
Week 10 Paper Presentations