From: Sangeeta Mediratta <smedirat@stanford.edu>
Date: 2011/1/4
Subject: January 28th and February 25th: Sawyer Seminar Series on Gender Bias in the Past and Future of Asia
To: southasiafaculty@lists.stanford.edu, southasiastudents@lists.stanford.edu, southasia@lists.stanford.edu
This three-quarter-long seminar series is a John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The series examines factors contributing to, and implications of, the male-biased population sex ratio in contemporary China, contemporary India, and late imperial China. The significance of this topic is difficult to over-estimate. There are an estimated 60-100 million “missing” girls and women in Asia, and the Chinese government expects 50 million “surplus” men by 2050. Sex-selective abortions, which contribute significantly to this bias, are widely used in China, India, and even parts of the US with large Asian immigrant communities, including Santa Clara County, California.
NOTE: Students may receive credit for participating in this series by registering for Anthro 380B.
January 28, 2011
“Gender Bias and the Traffic in Brides in China and India”
at Leventhal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
speakers (9:00 am – 12:15)
Matthew Sommer (Stanford University)
“The Social and Economic Logic of Wife Selling in Qing Dynasty China”
Patricia Jeffrey (University of Edinburgh)
“Daughter Aversion, Dowry and Demographic Change”
Melissa Brown (Stanford University)
“Marriage Costs, Brideprice Fraud, and Social Capital: Chinese Men’s Problems in Finding a Wife”
Sharada Srinivasan (York University)
“Dowry, Daughter Elimination and Gender Transformation”
respondents and open discussion (2-4 pm)
Janice Stockard (Stanford University)
Anjali Arondekar (UC Santa Cruz)
Rochona Majumdar (University of Chicago)
Arthur Wolf (Stanford University)
February 11, 2011
“Chinese Kinship and Labor Deployment”
Lane Hall (Building 200), Room 307
presentation and discussion (10:00 – 11:50 am )
Hill Gates (Stanford University)
“Dancing to Dialectics: Mode of Production Logics in Shanxi and Anhui Merchant Lineages”
rec. reading: China’s Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism, Ch. 6
February 25, 2011
“How Gender Bias Structures Labor Markets and Migration Patterns”
at Leventhal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
speakers (9:00 am – 12:15)
Marcus W. Feldman (Stanford University)
“Floating Problems: Chinese rural-urban migrants and the need for policy revision”
S. Irudaya Rajan (Center for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India)
“Migration and Development: The Indian Experience”
Christopher Isett (University of Minnesota)
“Labor and Migration in Qing China”
Scott Rozelle (Stanford University)
“Rising Wages and Rural Women in China’s Labor Markets: Who Will ‘Man’ the Sweatshops and the Farms?”
respondents and open discussion (2-4 pm)
Thomas Gold (UC Berkeley)
Raka Ray (UC Berkeley)
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