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I think that this event might be of interest to some of you - please note
the RSVP to Wff@yale.edu is due by Monday. <br><br>
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"Mapping the Terrain of Work, Care, and Gender"<br><br>
Tuesday, April 22, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.<br>
WLH 309, 100 Wall Street <br>
</b>(near the corner of College and Wall Streets)<b>*<br><br>
</b>Lunch will be provided. <br><br>
<b>***Please RSVP to wff@yale.edu by Monday, April 21***<br><br>
</b>Co-sponsored by the Yale Women Faculty Forum, the MacMillan Center,
and the Yale Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies program.<br><br>
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<b>Linda McDowell, Professor of Human Geography at Oxford University,
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and <br>
Barrie Thorne, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at UC
Berkeley</b>,<br>
will lead this roundtable discussion on contemporary theories, practices,
and research <br>
on the interactions between wage work, gender, and households <br>
from transnational perspectives.<br>
Frances Rosenbluth, Professor of International Politics at Yale
University, and Reva Siegel, Deputy Dean and Professor of Law at the Yale
Law School, will comment. Judith Resnik, Professor of Law at the
Yale Law School, will moderate.<br><br>
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Dr. McDowell will examine the "implications of the 'new' service
economy for class and gender relations in the U.K. New patterns of
polarisation are emerging as the economy expands at top and bottom ends:
MacJobs and McJobs, hi tech and high touch. Class divisions are widening
between women, and working class masculinity is becoming a disadvantage
in deferential service sector jobs. Workfare policies imply a new version
of motherhood based on employment participation rather than care based on
‘love’ in the home."<br><br>
Dr. Thorne will speak on the "importance of examining social
relations and practices of work and care from multiple
perspectives. Too often the study of work-family focuses primarily
on mothers (often with 'Northern' middle-class mother at the center),
which eclipses varied arrangements and the contributions made by other
caregivers, including children (self-care, sibling care), other kin
(fathers, aunts, grandparents), and kith (especially in immigrant
communities)." She will examine transnational studies of what
Arlie Hochschild has called "care chains" (the care of children
left behind by mothers and fathers who migrate for work and who may be
caring for other peoples' children), and discuss her interest in
"developing knowledge that attends more fully to the diverse
positionings, practices, and experiences of children, and care
arrangements, in globalizing contexts." <br><br>
Dr. McDowell's work on this topic includes papers entitled, "Spaces
of the home: absence, presence, new connections and new anxieties,"
and "Thinking through work: Complex inequalities, constructions of
difference and transnational migrants." Dr. Thorne's papers
include " 'The Chinese Girls' and 'The Pokémon Kids': Children
Negotiating Differences in Urban California" and "The Crisis of
Care." (All are attached or available by contacting Susan
Overton at susan.overton@yale.edu)<br><br>
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<b>*</b>Once inside William L. Harkness Hall, go toward the rear of the
building (opposite the building's entrance on the quad, through a set of
heavy double doors) to the elevator and take it to the 3rd floor.
Exit the rear of the elevator and turn left, then go down the hall to
your right. Room 309 is in the back left corner.<br>
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<u>Victoria A. Blodgett<br>
</u>Assistant Dean and Director<br>
Graduate Career Services<br>
HGS Room 124<br>
GSAS, Yale University <br>
203-432-7375 </body>
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