911±¬ΑΟΝψΊμΑμ½ν Center for Global Humanities presents βThe Global Politics of Genderβ

As the worldβs welfare states have come under strain, how have gender expectations continued to evolve in response to new challenges families and communities face around the globe? An upcoming lecture at the 911±¬ΑΟΝψΊμΑμ½νβs Center for Global Humanities will address this and other questions related to female empowerment when scholar Inderpal Grewal presents βThe Global Politics of Genderβ on Monday, November 26 at 6:00 p.m. at the WCHP Lecture Hall in Parker Pavilion on the 911±¬ΑΟΝψΊμΑμ½ν Portland Campus.
As Grewal will discuss, 20th century projects devoted to the empowerment of women tended to focus on reproductive issues, poverty-reduction, and expanding literacy. In the new century, though, new contexts of development have emerged as societiesβ overall welfare becomes increasingly dependent on females.
Professor and chair of the Womenβs, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Yale University, Grewal is also a professor in Yaleβs Ethnicity, Race and Migration Studies program, a member of the South Asian Studies Council, and an affiliate faculty member in the American Studies program.
She is the author of Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel, Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms, and Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First century America. With co-author Caren Kaplan, she has written and edited Gender in a Transnational World: Introduction to Womenβs Studies and Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational: Feminist Practices. With co-author Victoria Bernal, she has edited Theorizing NGOβs: States, Feminism & Neoliberalism.
This is the fifth lecture of the 2018-2019 academic year at the Center for Global Humanities, where events are always free, open to the public, and streamed live online.
For more information, please visit: /calendar/2018/global-politics-gender