Globalisation and Culture ACOM 465 Fall 2003
(October 5-11)
PART ONE OF YOUR JOURNAL IS DUE Thursday, 16th October (in this weekly are
the guidelines for your presentation) WEEK 06. There is no journal article due
for this week, use this week to format your journal.
(Tuesday)
Gender and globalisation: more or less
rights for women, for men? Sexuality and the beauty-youth market and
globalisation.
In class we will watch some of ‘Killing
us softly 3’ by Jean Kilbourne. It is in the library: VidCas HF 5822 S75V 2000 ON
RESERVE
Discuss the Internet and women. Take a stand: for example, women are worse off because of Internet pornography and stereotyping or they are better off due to the use of the Internet to change public perspectives and create more equal
Discussion in
your group will be on whether women are better off than they were before the
most recent period of globalisation: 1980 – 2002 as well as Sexuality and the beauty-youth market and
globalisation.
Nyman, Roseline The impact of globalisation
on human rights, women and
good governance Southern African Peoples Solidarity Network. 26 -
You will need to find this
article yourself on the Internet (it is there).
What has been done to change
women's realities in
Shiva, Vandana. The effects of WTO on women's rights.
(Third World Resurgence No. 61/62, Sept/Oct 1995)
What does Shiva say are the two major shifts in
Gender analysis in a period of globalisation?
You will need to find this
article yourself on the Internet.
Dale Spender is a writer on women and computers. Her
book: Spender, Dale. Nattering on the Net Women, Power and
Cyberspace.
Read the following sites and discuss what Spender’s
view on women and computers is:
http://www.stumptuous.com/comps/spender.html
http://www.wel.org.au/inkwel/ink956/956spend.htm