The Gender Studies Working Group is now half-way through its latest annual lecture series. This year the lectures explore gender issues in the developing world.

The final two lectures are by Naila Kabeer, a Fellow of the Institute for Development Studies at Sussex University and Dame Marilyn Strathern, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge.

May 23
Naila Kabeer, University of Sussex
Labour standards, women's rights, basic needs: dilemmas of collective action and inaction in a globalising world

Naila Kabeer is a Fellow of the Institute for Development Studies at Sussex University. She is an economist, and works on the interactions between household behaviour and the wider economy. She has undertaken research on the microdeterminants of fertility behaviour, industrialisation strategies and their gender implications for labour supply and employment patterns in Asia. Her areas of specialisation are the gender dimensions of poverty, population and health, poverty and food security, and household survival and livelihood strategies. She has worked with a range of governments, NGOs and multilateral agencies on practical ways of integrating gender and social analysis in policy and planning and she is currently working on research relating to poverty, livelihoods and labour markets with a focus on microfinance, social capital and collective action.

May 30
Marilyn Strathern:
Resistance, refusal and global moralities

Dame Marilyn Strathern is Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and Mistress of Girton College. She has published widely on both Melanesia and England. Her research in Papua New Guinea has involved gender relations, feminist scholarship, dispute settlement and legal anthropology, problems of migration, and aesthetics. In England she has worked on English culture and society, in particular on English kinship and new reproductive technologies. Her current interests in intellectual and cultural property have developed from these strands. Her publications include The gender of the gift: problems with women and problems with society in Melanesia (1988), After nature: English kinship in the late 20th century (1992), and Property, substance and effect: anthropological essays on persons and things (1999).

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