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Women and Globalization, Co-chaired by Mary Anglin, professor of anthropology, University of Kentucky; Nandini Gunewardena, lecturer in anthropology and international development studies, University of California, Los Angeles; and Ann Kingsolver, associate professor of anthropology, University of South Carolina, April 7, 2005

Participants

Mary Anglin (Co-chair)
Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky and President, Association for Feminist Anthropology

Lynn Bolles
Department of Women’s Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

Karen Brodkin
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

Nandini Gunewardena (co-chair)
Department of Anthropology and International Development Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Faye Harrison
Departments of African American Studies and Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville

Ann Kingsolver (co-chair)
Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina

Louise Lamphere
Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

Mary Moran
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Colgate University

Sandi Morgen
Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon

Patricia Zavella
Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California , Santa Cruz

Back Row (from left): Karen Brodkin, Nandini Gunewardena, Sandi Morgen
Middle Row (from left): Patricia Zavella, Faye Harrison, Louise Lamphere
Front Row (from left): Mary Moran, Ann Kingsolver, Lynn Bolles

Summary

Women and Globalization

On April 7, 2005, ten scholars convened at the School for Advanced Research to hold a day-long seminar on “Gender and Globalization” that grew out of a proposal from the Association for Feminist Anthropology. The participants sought to assess the contributions that feminist anthropology can make toward understanding the process of neoliberal, capitalist globalization. Building on feminist anthropological theorizing about the social construction of gender, they explored theoretical models that help illuminate the ways in which the globalization of capital is implicated in women’s economic and social marginality and how women navigate these forces. During the seminar, the participants discussed the organization of a volume tentatively titled “Gendered Globalizations: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities.” The book will feature ethnographic chapters placed in the context of theorizing gendered experiences and contestations of capitalism, agency and the navigation of marginalities, and feminist and anthropological knowledge practices.