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The OTHER Economic Summit - TOES '90, Houston, July 6-8, 1990

Feminist Perspectives on the Economy

This session will analyze the global economic crisis from a feminist perspective and propose gender focused and sustainable alternatives to the current global policies.

Organizer:

• Nilufer Cagatay, Department of Economics, University of Utah, 308 BUC, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; e-mail: Cagatay@econ.sbs.utah.edu.

Speakers:

• Nilufer Cagatay: How the costs of "adjustment" policies that are being enforced by the institutions of the world economy are affecting large segments of the world population, with a special emphasis on women.

• Yakin Erturk: Problems of rural development, and in particular their effect on women as providers of basic needs in the rural economies of the Third World. Will also discuss alternative forms of production and experiments in rural communities in the Third World.

• Saralee Hamilton: Nationwide Women's Program, American Friends Service Committee, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102; (215) 241-7180. The phenomenon of the "global factory" as it represents the new form of industrial production in the world economy, local and regional strategies for activism as a response to the global factory.

• Lourdes Beneria*, Professor of Economics, Department of City and Regional Planning, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University, 106 West Sibley Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853. Developing alternative strategies at the global, regional, local and household levels and their interrelationships to go "beyond the debt crisis" toward building sustainable development.