[Sci-tech-public] Gender, Globalization, and Development in China and India

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>The Program in Women's and Gender Studies at MIT presents
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>The McMillan-Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World
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>Gender, Globalization, and Development in China and India
>
>Speakers:
>Professors Lin Chun and Uma Chakravarty
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>Thursday April, 10th
>Time: 4:00pm
>Location: Building 10-105, MIT Vannevar Bush Room
>
>
>Lin Chun teaches politics and history in East Asian Studies
>at New York University. She has also researched and taught for
>several years at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and at the
>London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author
>of The British New Left (1993) and The Transformation of Chinese
>Socialism (2006), and the editor of China I, II and III (2000) and,
>in Chinese, Women: The Longest Revolution (1997), an anthology of
>feminist classics.
>
>Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian who has taught
>history at Miranda House, University College for Women, Delhi
>University. She works on gender caste and labor in India. She is the
>author of Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita
>Ramabai (1998); Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens (2002);
>Everyday Lives, Everyday Histories: Beyond the Kings and Brahmanas
>of Ancient India (2006). Professor Chakravarty has been associated
>with movements for democratic rights and women's rights since the 1970s.
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>Free and open to the general public.
>
>Sponsors:
>Women and Gender Studies, Graduate Consortium in Women's  Studies
>The MIT Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies.
>
>
>

Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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