WMST 101: Women, Work, and Capitalism

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours

Catalog page 426

Prerequisites: WMST 001 or consent of instructor

Description: Considers ways in which women’s labor is key to the growth of transna- tional corporations. Examines how class, race, and sexual inequalities impact, contest, and shape gender identities and relations. Analyzes patterns of women’s work in the new international division of labor through case studies of export processing zones, reproductive labor, and sex tourism. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.

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