AP/SOSC 3543 6.00

Introduction to Gender and Development: Key Themes in Critique and Practice

This course will introduce students to the history, theory and practice of “Gender and Development”. We examine the emergence of women as a constituency in development and the ways in which feminists have engaged with development as well as the ways in which development institutions have appropriated feminist and gender discourses and practices. The first part will lay the conceptual/ analytical foundations to understanding women, men, gender and development while the second part of the course will cover the history of and various issues related to GAD. At the end of the course students will have acquired necessary theoretical and conceptual skills to analyze from a gender perspective. Readings will include journal articles and book chapters, most of which are available online through the York library. Some material may be posted on Moodle.

Learning will be organized around class lectures, presentations and discussions based on assigned readings, case studies and films. Students are expected to actively participate in class discussions based on the readings. Students are expected to come prepared with the readings to class and actively participate in discussions of the readings. All course-related information will be available on Moodle.