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SWS in Montréal: C'est Magnifique! FALL 2006 VOLUME XXIII NO. 3 NNeettwwoorrkknewsnews The Newsletter of Sociologists for Women in Society SWS in Montréal: C’est Magnifique! By: Christine E. Bose city centers—Viejo San Juan and Vieux justice and equality by attending this SWS President Montréal—that are fun to walk around summer meeting, contributing to the and explore; and both cities offered forum organization, and using our he 2006 SWS Summer meetings great opportunities to de-center our classrooms as a critical space to raise were held at the Montréal knowledge and to focus on issues of issues related to the forum. To learn ConventionTT Center from August 10th gender and globalization. more, see page 27 of this issue. SWS through the 14th, in conjunction with For example, in the realm of global- and SSF also co-sponsored a session on the ASA meetings. This year’s location ization, I organized an SWS presiden- the regular ASA program, organized by for our hospitality suite and a meet- tial session with presentations by Walda Cathy Zimmer, on “Women’s Rights ings-sessions room was perfect, on the Katz Fishman and Rose Brewer entitled and Human Rights.” same floor as all the ASA sessions so “Building the Global Justice Movement This summer we continued to co- that we were clearly visible and acces- in the U.S. from the Bottom Up: Join sponsor key events with the Association sible to all attendees, rather than being the U.S. Social Forum Process,” co- of Black Scholars (ABS). Using a rotat- hidden in a hotel mezzanine. Indeed, at sponsored by Sociologists Without ing location schedule, this year’s joint least 220 people registered for our Borders (SSF) and Project South. The sessions were held in the ABS head- meetings this year, and 170 attended first U.S. Social Forum will be held quarters hotel, which had the advantage the banquet. from June 27-July 1, 2007 in Atlanta, of getting us out of the Convention The Summer Meetings in Montréal Georgia; it builds on the model of pre- Center and riding the Metro. On made a fitting follow-up to our Winter vious World Social Forums. We can Thursday night, an excellent ABS-SWS Meetings in San Juan, because of some help connect various grassroots organi- joint reception, with plentiful good of the similarities between the two zations to each other food, included dance music provided by places. Both places have beautiful old and to global a local disk jockey named “DJ Sam”; movements for and those of us who attended found traveling to another hotel well worth our efforts. In the same location, on Friday morning ABS, SSF, and SWS held a “Student Roundtable Paper Sessions: Emerging Scholarship in Sociology” co-organized by Marianne Noh, Chair of our Student Concerns Committee, along with her counterparts in the other two organizations, and which included fully 15 tables of graduate student paper presenters. ...continued on page 3 From Left Gloria Steinem and SWS members Laura Moore and Anastasia Prokos Gloria Steinem spoke at ASA meetings in Montreal. President's Message: Internationalizing Sociology of Gender& Global Gender Studies By: Christine E. Bose sify the coverage given in typical U.S.- valuing carework through policy and cul- University at Albany based gender studies courses. Being part of ture. All of these books (and many others) the global picture does not mean that the are excellent, and offer important case aving our Winter and Summer U.S. should be the center of it or become study material that ought systematically to 2006 SWS meetings held outside the standard by which to judge all other be incorporated into introductory sociolo- ofHH the continental United States, in Puerto countries’ gendered cultural patterns or gy of gender courses as well as into cours- Rico and in institutions. es on gender and globalization, political Montréal, high- Certainly, there are branches of U.S.- sociology, or families and work. We do not lights the impor- based gender studies that examine women use this material as often as we should. tance of moving in international contexts, especially works Sometimes we do not examine global vari- beyond U.S.-cen- drawing on globalization and economic ations because we are told our students are tered gender stud- issues, social movements and activism, not interested in non-US topics. Yet, this ies to a perspec- human rights concerns, or cross-national argument increasingly seems false, tive that could be cultural issues. Let me provide only a few because many of our students are immi- labeled, with vari- examples using books edited by SWS grants themselves or have family members ous implications, members. Some are regionally focused living elsewhere on the planet. as global gender books, such as Transforming Gender and research, transna- Development in East Asia by Esther Ngan Global Gender Studies tional gender studies, internationalizing the Ling Chow (2002), whose chapters are sociology of gender, or globalizing and organized into sections on engendering As social science gender studies have localizing gender research. development, industrialization, economic “gone global,” it could be argued that the restructuring, and immigration. In the United States is no longer the world leader Internationalizing Sociology of Gender political realm, Nancy Naples and Manisha in this field. In many countries outside the in the United States Desai’s Women’s Activism and United States, sociology of gender is a Globalization: Linking Local Struggles well-developed field, although in others Of course, the United States is part of the and Transnational Politics (2002) covers a social science gender research is located global gender studies picture, but there is variety of nations and provides case studies within the more general field of women’s considerable research devoted to U.S. gen- on organizing across borders, localizing studies. der issues, and U.S. gender paradigms are global politics, and activism in and against Our meetings in Puerto Rico provided an predominant and well known worldwide. the transnational state. And on the family- excellent example of a country with a Many of our own introductory sociology of work interface, I can point to the edited strong sociological gender research tradi- gender courses focus on the United States, book by Mary Zimmerman, Jacqueline tion that draws both on U.S. and on Latin and rarely address the global variation in Litt, and myself on the Global Dimensions American or Caribbean feminist threads. gender patterns for each topic on the syl- of Gender and Carework (2006), which As described by Alice Colón (2003), there labus. I believe that the onus is on U.S. examines multiple crises of care, transna- are both parallels and divergences between gender studies to incorporate the kinds of tional migration influences on citizenship U.S. and Puerto Rican gender research. As original material and insights that interna- and social control, motherhood-domestic in much of Latin America, women’s stud- tional comparisons facilitate, and to diver- work-childcare in global perspective, and ...continued on page 4 In This Issue... Next Issue... Summer Meeting Minutes . .pg 7 Submissions Due . .November 15 2005 Feminist Lecturer Article . .pg 24 Publication Date . .December 15 People & Places/Local Chapters . .pg 26 Editor . .Leslie Hossfeld Scholarship and Human Rights Report . .pg 27 Phone . .(910) 962-7849 Members’ Bookshelf . .pg 28 Email . [email protected] The Gendered Impact of War . .pg 30 Film Review . .pg 34 2 Montreal...from page 1 shift the Sister-to-Sister Task Force Of course, another central element of into a standing committee, which will our summer meetings always is the require a by-laws change. At the same Published and distributed by Sociologists for SWS Feminist Lecture, which was time, we postponed discussion until Women in Society, an international given on Saturday by Michael the winter meetings of the Feminist organization of more than 1,000 social Messner under the title “Acting the Transformation of the Academy Task scientists, faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, sociology practitioners and independent Part: The Masculinity of the Force’s request to become a standing scholars who share a dedication to social equality. Governator.” If you were not able to committee, since they felt they were Editor . Leslie Hossfeld attend this engaging lecture, look for not ready to present their proposal yet. Graphics Editor . Allison Alvarez Hedrick the printed version in a future issue of Perhaps most importantly, we began Sociologists for Women in Society Gender & Society. the discussion of how to use the President. Christine Bose There were several sessions, organ- increased funds generated by the most President -Elect . Manisha Desai ized by our committees, that were recent Gender & Society contract with Past President. Marlese Durr aimed at graduate student needs, and Sage Publications. This was a compli- Vice-President . Cathy Zimmer the meeting evaluation comments cated discussion, with many proposals Secretary . Tina Fetner indicate these were successful both in presented, but considerable progress Treasurer . Kathleen Slobin passing along information and for net- was made. We did decide to provide Deputy Treasurer . Tracey Steele Executive Officer . Jessica Sherwood working. These sessions included stable funding to the Beth Hess Award Student Representative . Marianne Noh “The Dissertation Process: Things You for five years, in support of these Need to Know but Were Afraid to awardees and of the committee’s Standing Committee Chairs: Awards . Tracy Ore Ask,” organized by Astrid Eich- efforts to recruit monies from other Career Development . Denise Copleton Krohm for the Student Concerns organizations. There was also exciting Discrimination Support . Shirley Jackson Committee, “Getting Dissertations discussion with Jean Shin (of the International . Jessie Daniels Published,” organized by Julie ASA) about the possibility of provid- Membership. Cathy Zimmer Shayne, Meika Loe, and Laura ing full (instead of partial) support to Publications.
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