WGGP Publications

New Publications:

Sustainable Biofuels and Human Security
Summer 2009 issue of Swords and Ploughshares
The Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS)
in cooperation with the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Contents:
Introduction Jürgen Scheffran and Gale Summerfield
Biofuel Conflicts and Human Security: Toward a Sustainable Bioenergy Life Cycle and Infrastructure Jürgen Scheffran
Prospects for the New Bioeconomy Hans P. Blaschek
Biofuels in the Broader Context Clifford E. Singer
Biofuels and Global Poverty Mary Arends-Kuenning
Biofuels: Getting to the Real Facts and Promise about the Food vs. Fuel Debate Anil Hira
Sustainable Biofuel Standards and Certification Timothy M. Smith, Kristell Miller, and Justin Lindenberg
Use of Remote Sensing to Measure Land Use Change from Biofuel Production Steffen Mueller and Ken Copenhaver
A Note on China in the Global Biofuel Scenario Gale Summerfield
To access the issue, visit
http://acdis.illinois.edu/publications/207/publication-SustainableBiofuelsandHumanSecurity.html

Gender, China and the World Trade Organization: Essays from Feminist Economics Edited by Günseli Berik, Xiao-yuan Dong, Gale Summerfield Published by: Routledge, November 2009 (Available for Pre-order)

China’s joining the World Trade Organization at the end of 2001 signifies a milestone in the country’s global integration after two decades of economic reforms that have fundamentally transformed the economic organization of China. This collection seeks to identify the gendered implications within China of the country’s transition from socialism to a market economy and its opening up to international trade and investment. The changes have created greater wealth for some, while at the same time, serious gender, class, ethnic, and regional disparities have also emerged. Drawing from historical, analytical, and policy-oriented work, the essays in this collection explore women’s well-being relative to men’s in rural and urban China by looking at land rights, labor-market status and labor rights, household decision-making, health, the representation of women in advertising and beauty pageants. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal, Feminist Economics, the official journal of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE).

Table of Contents: 1. China’s Transition and Feminist Economics Gunseli Berik, Xiao-yuan Dong, and Gale Summerfield 2. Land Management in Rural China and Its Gender Implications Denise Hare, Li Yang and Daniel Englander 3. Gender and Rural Reforms in China: A Case Study of Population Control and Land Rights Policies in Northern Liaoning Junjie Chen and Gale Summerfield 4. Women’s Market Work and Household Status in Rural China: Evidence from Jiangsu and Shandong in the Late 1990s Fiona MacPhail and Xiao-yuan Dong 5. Gender Dynamics and Redundancy in Urban China Jieyu Liu 6. An Ocean Formed from One Hundred Rivers: The Effects of Ethnicity, Gender, Marriage, and Location on Labor Force Participation in Urban China Margaret Maurer-Fazio, James Hughes and Dandan Zhang 7. Gender Equity in Transitional China’s Healthcare Policy Reforms Lanyan Chen and Hilary Standing 8. Foreign Direct Investment and Gendered Wages in Urban China Elissa Braunstein and Mark Brenner 9. Gendering the Dormitory Labor System: Production, Reproduction, and Migrant Labor in South China Pun Ngai 10. Chinese Women after the Accession to the World Trade Organization: A Legal Perspective on Women’s Labor Rights Julien Burda 11. Western Cosmetics in the Gendered Development of Consumer Culture in China Barbara E. Hopkins 12. Meinu Jingji/China’s BeautyEconomy: Buying Looks, Shifting Value, and Changing Place Gary Xu and Susan Feiner

 

 

China's Economic Transition and Feminist Economics (translation of special isue of Feminist Economics, China, Gender and the WTO, 2007) Edited by Günseli Berik, Xiao-yuan Dong, Gale Summerfield

 

 

 

 

A Gendered View of Reforming Health Care Access for Farmers in China by Huixia Liu, Linxiu Zhang, Gale Summerfield, Yaojiang Shi, China Agricultural Economic Review, 1 (2), 2009: 194-211.

Abstract – The social safety net of health care insurance is rapidly expanding in rural China. New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) programs proliferated between the national decree of 2002 and 2008, moving from a situation where less than 10 per cent of the rural population had access to health insurance to one where over 80 per cent had the opportunity to participate in these programs. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how NRCMS affects equity goals in access to health care and explore the gender-specific determinants for farmers to participate in NRCMS and use health care services. Design/methodology/approach – Empirical analysis, by using the national rural socio-economic survey data collected by the Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. Based on Andersen's access to medical care model, the probit model for regression was used. All analyses are conducted with Stata 9.0 software. Findings – Gender was found to have significant effects on both NRCMS participation and health care use. Age, education, deductible level and ceiling limits of reimbursement had positive effects on both NRCMS participation and health care use. The narrow coverage with high co-payment compensation system asserted significant deterrence effects on equity access to health care. This is only a first step toward building an adequate health safety net for all rural residents, there is still a long way to go. Originality/value – Using the national household survey data, this study is one of few studies focusing on the interplay between gender and the distinct determinants of access to health care under the ongoing NRCMS. The relevant findings have important implications for further policy design.

 

Recently Published:

Transnational Migration, Gender and Human Security, by Gale Summerfield,
Development, 2007, 50 (4), 13-18.

Abstract: Gale Summerfield examines the gender and human security aspects of transnational migration. Human security is taken here as an emphasis on basic needs, sustainability of a set of core capabilities and agency of people as full participants in society, for which gender equity is essential. Summerfield focuses on two key areas of rapid change: the global labour market for services and remittances for financing development through a case study on gender and human security of Latina/o immigrants in central Illinois.

 

The publisher of the international journal, Feminist Economics, is making the new Special Issue on Gender, China, and the WTO, July/October 2007, 13 (3 & 4) available for free online for a limited time. The special double issue is guest-edited by Gunseli Berik (University of Utah), Xiao-yuan Dong (University of Winnipeg), and Gale Summerfield (University of Illinois).

The special issue explores women's well-being relative to men's in rural and urban China by looking at land distribution, labor-market discrimination, earnings, household decision-making, health, the representation of women in advertising and beauty pageants, and the consumption of beauty products.
Xiao-yuan Dong, one of three guest editors for the special issue, said, "China has remarkable economic growth, but tremendous problems with growing economic and gender inequality. Not much is known about how women compared with men are being affected by China's accession to the WTO and other recent economic reforms. This collection aims to fill that gap."
--Excerpted from NewsBrief, http://www.iaffe.org/resources/article.php?id=305

 

Publications from WGGP Symposia:

Globalization, Transnational Migration, and Gendered Care Work, a symposium in Globalizations, September, 2006, Volume 3, Number 3.

Excerpts from the Preface: Care of children and the elderly, health care, domestic labor, and other forms of care work are increasingly being done as paid work involving transnational flows of people...The same processes that increaase cross-border supply through the disembodied export of labor in EPZs (export processing zones) or outsourcing of IT (information technology) service work also promote the embodied supply of care work through transnational migration... Millions of women are relocating for work, sometimes acompanying their spouses/partners, but often separated from their families for years. This trend is exacerbated by government policies that promote separation in order to increaase the likelihood of remittances, which are often a key source of foreign exchange earnings as well as redistribution of income from the wealthier countries...

Table of Contents: Preface -- Guest Editors; Globalization, Transnational Migration, and Gendered Care Work: Introduction -- Jean L. Pyle, U Mass Lowell; Globalization and the Increase in Transnational Care Work: The Flip Side -- Jean L. Pyle, U Mass Lowell; The Globalization of Carework: Neoliberal Economic Restructuring and Migration Policy -- Joya Misra, John Woodring, and Sabine Merz, U Mass Amherst; The Balance of Care: Trends in Wages and Employment of Immigrant Nurses in the US between 1990 and 2000 -- Mary Arends-Kuenning, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Nursebots to the Rescue? Immigration, Automation, and Care -- Nancy Folbre, U Mass Amherst; At Both Ends of Care: South Indian, Hindu Widows Living with Daughters and Daughters-in-law in Southern California -- Lata Murti, U Southern California.

Gender and Human Security: Latina/o Immigrants in the Midwest, A Special Issue of Perspectives: Research Notes and News, a publication of Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2004, Volume 24, Number 2.

 

 

Risks and Rights in the 21st Century, WGGP symposium papers on human security available in the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (15) 1, Fall 2001.

 

 

 

Other WGGP Facilitated Publications:

Gender and Agribusiness Project (GAP):

Case Study, Cargill Zimbabwe, Kathleen Cloud (1999 ), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Paper for U.S. Agency for International Development, http://ips.illinois.edu/gap/Zimcase.Fnl.html.

Gender and Agribusiness Proejct (GAP): Cargill Sun Valley Case Study (Thailand), John J. Lawler and Vinita Atmiyanandana (2000 )University of Illinois, Paper for U.S. Agency for International Development, http://ips.illinois.edu/gap/pdf/sunvalley.pdf.

Gender and Agribusiness Project (GAP): Case Study, International Cheese Company - Paslek (Poland): A Joint Venture of OSM Paslek and Land O' Lakes. Hamish Gow (2001), University of Illinois, Paper for U.S. Agency for International Development, http://ips.illinois.edu/gap/pdf/poland.pdf.

The Employment of Rural Women in Mutlinational Agribusiness: Three Case Studies and Some Lessons Learned. Kathleen Cloud (2001), University of Illinois, Final Report to U.S. Agency for International Development, http://ips.illinois.edu/gap/finalreport.html.