Thanks, Alison. A group of us is working to globalize our curriculum, and
these are a big help.
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Alison Jaggar
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> These are all great suggestions. People may be interesting that I have
> recently edited an issue of the journal Philosophical Topics on the topic of
> global gender justice. It should be available in Jan. Below I will paste the
> TOC with abstracts:
>
> Introduction to the issue
>
> *The Philosophical Challenges of Global Gender Justice*
>
> By Alison M. Jaggar
>
> Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
>
> * *
>
> *Women and the Gendered Politics of Food*
>
> By Vandana Shiva
>
> Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy,
> New Delhi, India
>
>
>
> *Abstract*
>
> From seed to table, the food chain is gendered.
>
>
>
> When seeds and food are in women’s hands, seeds reproduce and multiply
> freely, food is shared freely and respected. However, women’s seed and food
> economy has been discounted as “productive work”. Women’s seed and food
> knowledge has been discounted as knowledge.
>
>
>
> Globalization has led to the transfer of seed and food from women’s hands
> to corporate hands. Seed is now patented and genetically engineered. It is
> treated as the creation and “property” of corporations like Monsanto.
> Renewable seed becomes non-renewable. Sharing and saving seed becomes a
> crime. Diversity, nourished by centuries of women’s breeding, disappears,
> and with it the culture and natural evolution that is embodied in the
> diversity is lost forever.
>
>
>
> Food too is transformed in corporate hands. It is no longer our nourishment
> it becomes a commodity. And as a commodity it can be manipulated and
> monopolized of food grain sold to factory forms makes more money, it becomes
> cattle feed. If food grain converted to biofuel to run automobiles is more
> profitable, it become ethanol and biodiesel.
>
>
>
> The consequence is the disappearance of food for billions. The contemporary
> food riots due to rising prices signal a new period of food scarcity.
>
>
>
> *Transnational Cycles of Gendered Vulnerability: A prologue to a theory of
> global gender injustice*
>
> By Alison M. Jaggar
>
> Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
>
>
>
> *Abstract*
>
> Across the world, the lives of men and women who are otherwise similarly
> situated tend to differ from each other systematically. Although gender
> disparities vary widely within and among regions, women everywhere are
> disproportionately vulnerable to poverty, abuse and political
> marginalization. This article proposes that global gender disparities are
> caused by a network of norms, practices, policies, and institutions that
> include transnational as well as national elements. These interlaced and
> interacting factors frequently modify and sometimes even reduce gendered
> vulnerabilities but their overall effect is to maintain and often intensify
> them. Women’s vulnerabilities in different areas of life mutually reinforce
> each other and I follow other authors in referring to such causal feedback
> loops as cycles of gendered vulnerability. I argue that these cycles now
> operate on a transnational as well as national scale and I illustrate this
> by discussing the examples of domestic work and sex work. If global
> institutional arrangements do indeed contribute to maintaining or
> intensifying distinctively gendered vulnerabilities, these arrangements
> deserve critical scrutiny from philosophers concerned with global justice.
>
>
>
> *Transnational Rights and Wrongs: Moral Geographies of Gender and
> Migration** *
>
> By Rachel Silvey
>
> Associate Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto,
> Canada.
>
>
>
> *Abstract*
>
> This article examines the challenges that transnational women’s migration
> poses to liberal, state-centered conceptions of rights. It reviews global
> perspectives on gender justice that are being developed by Western feminist
> philosophers and transnational migrant rights activists, and argues that
> these frameworks are contributing to imagining the moral geographies
> necessary for the protection of women migrants’ human rights and welfare.
> Specifically, based on discussion of the issues and strategies that
> Indonesian migrant workers’ organizations employ in relation to
> international human rights discourse, the article argues that adequate
> conceptualizations of justice must focus on the ways in which transnational
> gendered inequalities are produced—and indeed must be addressed— across
> ‘local’, ‘national’, and ‘global’ spaces and scales. These arguments, now
> commonplace in the discipline of geography, are offered as an elaboration of
> the spatial elements of feminist philosophical conceptions of global
> justice.
>
>
>
> *The Moral Harm of Migrant Carework: Realizing a Global Right to Care ***
>
> By Eva Feder Kittay
>
> Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Stonybrook, USA.
>
>
>
> *Abstract*
>
> Arlie Hochschild glosses the practice of women migrants in poor nations who
> leave their families behind for extended periods of time to do carework in
> other wealthier countries as a “global heart transplant” from poor to
> wealthy nations. Thus she signals the idea of an injustice between nations
> and a moral harm for the individuals in the practice. Yet the nature of the
> harm needs a clear articulation. When we posit a sufficiently nuanced “right
> to care,” we locate the harm to central relationships of the migrant women.
> The “right to (give and receive) care” we develop uses a concept of *a
> relational self* drawn from an ethics of care. The harm is the harm of
> broken relationships, which in turn have a serious impact on a person’s
> sense of equal dignity and self-respect, particularly since the sacrifice of
> central relationships of the migrant woman allows others (mostly women) to
> maintain these same relationships.
>
> The paper ends with a brief discussion of some of solutions we need to
> consider.
>
>
>
> *Global Inequalities in Women's Health: Who is responsible for doing what?
> *
>
> By Ruth Macklin
>
> Professor of Bioethics, Department of Epidemiology and Population Medicine, Albert
> Einstein College of Medicine, USA
>
>
>
> *Abstract*
>
> Empirical evidence confirms the existence of health inequalities between
> women and men in developing countries, with women experiencing poorer health
> status than men, as well as less access to vital health services. These
> disparities have different sources and take different forms, some of which
> result from cultural factors, others from discriminatory laws and practices,
> and still others from the biological fact that only women undergo pregnancy
> and childbirth, a major cause of maternal mortality. The injustice lies in
> the fact that many of these disparities result from socially controllable
> factors, while others could be remedied, especially in cases of violations
> of human rights. Past and current policies and practices of the United
> States government can be faulted for both actions and omissions that have
> contributed to such inequalities. Different conceptions of global justice
> have implications for who owes what to whom regarding these disparities.
>
>
>
> *Reforming our Taxation Arrangements to Promote Global Gender Justice*
>
> By Gillian Brock
>
> Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland, New Zealand
>
>
>
> *Abstract*
>
>
> In this article I examine how reforming our international tax regime could
> be an important vehicle for realizing key aspects of global gender justice.
> Ensuring all, including and especially multinationals, pay their fair share
> of taxes is crucial to ensuring that all countries, especially developing
> countries, are able to fund education, job training, infrastructural
> development, programs which promote gender-equity, and so forth, thereby
> enabling all countries to help themselves better. I discuss various
> positive proposals for levying global taxes. I review why overtly
> gender-neutral taxes can sometimes have unintended gendered consequences,
> disproportionately burdening or benefiting individuals, according to their
> gender. Any endorsement of global taxes must take this concern into
> account. Fortunately there is good fit between the rationale for the Tobin
> tax and the way in which it can be harnessed to promote gender-equity, so of
> the taxes discussed here, it emerges as one of the most promising. However,
> as I also argue, eliminating tax havens and blocking avenues that currently
> facilitate tax escape must also be part of the agenda to promote
> gender-equity, given the vast amounts of revenue that currently escape
> taxation. In a context of globalization, fiscal policies cannot achieve
> equity (including gender-equity) at national levels alone. Many concerns,
> such as clamping down on tax evasion and harmonizing corporate tax rates can
> only effectively be tackled at a global level. As I also discuss, feasible
> arrangements for tackling such issues are available, as are mechanisms for
> collecting and disbursing funds in ways that promote accountability and
> compliance. Failing to reform our tax arrangements means that the basic
> institutional structure of the global economy is unjust and also involves
> gender injustice. Gender consciousness is indispensable for developing an
> adequate account of taxation justice and therefore a global institutional
> structure that is gender just.
>
>
>
> *Discourses of Sexual Violence in a Global Framework*
>
> By Linda Alcoff
>
> Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA
>
>
>
> In this paper I make a preliminary analysis of western (or global north)
> discourses on sexual violence, focusing on the important concepts of
> "consent" and "victim." The concept of "consent" is widely used to determine
> whether sexual violence has occurred, and is the focal point of debates over
> the legitimacy of statutory offences and over the way we characterize sex
> work done under conditions involving economic desperation. The concept of
> "victim" is shunned by many feminists and non-feminists alike for its
> apparent eclipse of agency.
>
>
>
> Putting these concepts into a global framework sheds light on their
> limitations. Bringing in the debate over the concept "Honor crime" reveals
> contrasting assumptions about the nature of sexual violence. The comparative
> analysis used in this paper shows how we can avoid universalizing from
> specific frameworks, but also how we can learn from the discourses elsewhere
> toward developing an account of commonalities across contexts.
>
>
>
> Ultimately I argue that in applications to sexual violence, "consent" has
> intrinsic limitations, "victim" has context-based dangers, and "honor crime"
> makes both correct as well as incorrect assumptions.
>
>
>
> *The Problem with Polygamy***
>
> By Thom Brooks
>
> Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy, Department of Geography,
> Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle, UK,
>
>
>
> *Abstract*
>
> Polygamy is a hotly contested practice and open to widespread
> misunderstandings. This practice is defined as a relationship between either
> one husband and multiple wives or one wife and multiple husbands. Today,
> ‘polygamy’ almost exclusively takes the form of one husband with multiple
> wives. In this article, my focus will centre on limited defences of polygamy
> offered recently by Chesire Calhoun and Martha Nussbaum. I will argue that
> these defences are unconvincing. The problem with polygamy is primarily that
> it is a structurally inegalitarian practice in both theory and fact.
> Polygamy should be opposed for this reason.
>
>
>
> *Feminist Paradigms of Solidarity and Justice*
>
> By Ann Ferguson
>
> Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies, University of
> Massachusetts at Amherst, USA>
>
>
>
> *Abstract*
>
> My paper develops a new feminist paradigm for global justice that includes
> several components. I deploy a non-ideal ethics approach based on an
> argument about what principle of justice is possible to act on, given a
> historical and intersectional feminist analysis of what kind of feminist
> coalitions are possible in the present period. I claim that the time is ripe
> for a new progressive feminist Solidarity paradigm of justice that
> supersedes the classical liberal debates between Libertarian Freedom
> paradigm and the Social Democrat Equality paradigm of Justice. I outline the
> anti-globalization economic and political networks coming into existence, as
> evidenced by networks of worker-owned cooperatives, labor unions, fair trade
> commitments, squatter and other land reform movements. Such movements are
> creating the material conditions in which North-South women's coalition
> movements, based not on essentialist but on transformational identities, can
> unite around various issues of global gender justice, including reproductive
> rights, environmental justice, and the feminization of poverty.
>
>
>
> Feminist Theory, Global Gender Justice, and the Evaluation of Grant-Making
>
> By Brooke Ackerly
>
> Associate Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, USA.
>
>
>
> *Abstract*
>
> In activist circles feminist political thought is often viewed as abstract
> because it does not help activists make the kinds of arguments that are
> generally effective with donors and policy makers. The feminist political
> philosopher’s focus on how we know and what counts as knowledge is a large
> step away from the terrain in which activists make their arguments to
> donors. Yet, philosophical reflection on the relations between power and
> knowledge can make a significant contribution to women’s human rights work
> in the area of evaluation. Feminist political philosophy can offer
> guidelines for how to evaluate the work of women’s human rights
> organizations and their funders in light of the social, political, and
> economic conditions that render their work necessary and difficult. This
> article offers 1) an account of the difficulty in showing the impact of
> social change activism using conventional modes of measurement, particularly
> those that focus on first order effects, 2) feminist theoretical insights
> into the interrelatedness of global gender injustices that may help us
> develop better benchmarks of evaluation for women’s human rights
> programming, and 3) a sketch of how to approach the evaluation of
> organizations and donors who seek to support global gender justice.
>
>
>
> I have also written a number of articles in which people might be
> interested:
>
>
> “Globalizing Feminist Ethics,” *Hypatia*, 13:2 (Spring, 1998) pp. 7-31.
>
> __________ reprinted in Uma Narayan and Sandra Harding, eds., *Decentering
> the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist
> World,* Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000.
>
> __________ reprinted in Cheshire Calhoun, ed., *Setting the Moral Compass:
> Essays by Women Philosophers¸* Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp.
> 233-255.
>
> “Is Globalization Good for Women?” *Comparative Literature *53:4 (2001)
> pp. 298-314.
>
> __________ reprinted in David Leiwei Li, ed. *Globalization and
> the Humanities, *Hong Kong University Press, 2004, pp. 37-57.
>
> “A Feminist Critique of the Alleged Southern Debt,” in Birgit Christensen,
> Angelica Baum, Sidonia Blaettler, Anna Kusser, Irene Maria Marti, Briggitte
> Weisshaupt, eds., *Wissen/Macht/Geschlecht: Philosophie und die Zukunft
> der “condition feminine,” *Zuerich, SWITZERLAND: Chronos, 2002, pp. 19-40.
>
>
> __________ reprinted in *Hypatia*, 17:4 (Fall, 2002) 119-142.
>
> __________ reprinted (in Spanish translation) in *Mora* 8, (2002),
> Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA: Universidad de Buenos Aires.
>
>
>
> “Vulnerable Women and Neo-liberal Globalization: Debt Burdens Undermine
> Women’s Health in the Global South,” *Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics,*23:6 (2002) 425-440.
>
> __________ reprinted in Robin N. Fiore and Hilde Nelson, eds., *Recognition,
> Responsibility and Rights: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory,* Lanham, MD:
> Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
>
> __________ reprinted in German in Mechthild Nagel and Nina Zimnik,
> eds., *Feministische Aufbreuche in die Postkoloniale,* Frankfurt/M:
> Suhrkamp Verlag, 2003.
>
>
> “Challenging Women’s Global Inequalities: Some Priorities for Western
> Philosophers,” *Philosophical Topics,* 30:2 (fall, 2002) pp. 229-253.
>
> __________ “Gegen die weltweite Benachteiligung von Frauen: Einige
> Prioritaeten fuer die westliche Philosophie,” German translation in *Deutsche
> Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie* 51:4 (2003) 485-609.
>
>
> * *
>
> “Arenas of Citizenship: Civil Society, State and the Global Order,” *International
> Feminist Journal of Politics,* 7:1, March, 2005, 1-24*.*
>
> _________ reprinted in Marilyn Friedman, ed. *Women and
> Citizenship,* Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 150-188.
>
>
> “Western Feminism and Global Responsibility,” *Feminist Interventions in
> Ethics and Politics, *edited by Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Keller, and Lisa
> H. Schwartzman, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005, 185-200.
>
> “’Saving Amina:’ Global Justice for Women and Intercultural Dialogue,” *Ethics
> and International Affairs* 19:3*, *fall 2005, 85-105.
>
> __________ reprinted in *Real World Justice,* edited by Andreas
> Follesdal and Thomas Pogge, Springer Verlag, 2005, 36-62.
>
> __________ reprinted in Portugese translation in *Saberes e
> fazeres de genero: entre o loal e o global*, eds Luzinete Simeos Minella
> and Susana Borneo Funck, Florianopolis, BRAZIL: University Press of Santa
> Catarina.
>
> __________ reprinted in *Global Ethics: Seminal Essays, *edited by
> Thomas Pogge and Keith Horton, St. Paul, MN: Paragon, 2008.
>
> Reasoning About Well-Being: Nussbaum’s Methods of Justifying the
> Capabilities,” *The Journal of Political Philosophy,* 14:4 2006, 301-322*.
> *
> Finally, my contribution to the co-authored OUP book, ABORTION: THREE
> PERSPECTIVES, presents abortion rights as human rights (to life, liberty,
> and bodily integrity) and as a matter of global gender justice (rather than
> as a matter of personal ethics)
>
> I hope some of these are helpful. It is exciting to see the wealth of
> material that has been produced over the past ten years.
>
> Best,
>
> Alison.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Lynda Lange <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Carol Gould's new book *Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights* is a
>> terrific project that includes integrating feminist perspectives, as well as
>> consideration of matters of care, in a general theory of democracy and
>> rights. Her own theory of rights especially reflects this.
>>
>>
>> Lynda Lange
>> University of Toronto at Scarborough
>> Department of Humanities (Philosophy)
>> 1265 Military Trail
>> Toronto, ON
>> Canada M1C 1A4
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10-Dec-09, at 10:10 AM, Charlotte Witt wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I am working on a feminist theory course that focuses on global feminism.
>> This is a new approach for me (i.e. the focus on global feminism in a
>> theory course) and I wonder if any of you have recommendations for readings
>> or might be willing to share syllabi etc.
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Charlotte
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Alison M. Jaggar
> College Professor of Distinction
> University of Colorado at Boulder
> Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies
> Boulder, CO 80309-0232
> 303-492-8997 (direct line)
> 303-492-6132 (dept. office)
> 303-492-8386 (fax)
>
>
>
> --
> Alison M. Jaggar
> College Professor of Distinction
> University of Colorado at Boulder
> Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies
> Boulder, CO 80309-0232
> 303-492-8997 (direct line)
> 303-492-6132 (dept. office)
> 303-492-8386 (fax)
>
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Department of History and Philosophy
Eastern Michigan University
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