Women in Development

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This paper consists of two separate, if connected, four page treatments of the effects of globalization on gender and the role of women in development. The first essay examines the re-veiling process that is occurring in Cairo as Muslim women there are beginning to put back on their veils in order to safeguard traditional rights in the face of modernization. The second essay discusses the ways in which globalization has gendered the world economy by creating a demand for wage workers in positions traditionally reserved for women.

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"What approach (GAD or WCD) would apply better to Homa Hoodfar's analysis of the veil in Egypt? In other words, what approach do you think is implicitly informing Hoodfar's analysis of the veil? Homa Hoodfar makes an insightful analysis of the ideological construction of the veil in Egyptian society. However, that analysis itself is informed by critical ideology. Hoodfar can no more easily sever herself from academic ideology than the veiled women in Egypt can from the culture that fosters the use of the veil. Though she does not specifically state her argument in terms of a theoretical stance, it is apparent from Hoodfar's work that she is certainly informed by the Women, Culture, and Development (WCD) approach."

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