Write a 2-3 page essay on how “women” have replaced development in the Global South? Below are study guide questions that hone in major nodes of Hester Eisenstein’s argument. Write in Times New Roman, double-spaced, 12 point font. Put your name on the quiz. Your response in total should not exceed three pages. This quiz is due via Turnitin on Sunday, May 28, 2017 at 10:00pm. Late quiz submissions will not be accepted. Hester Eisenstein. “In the Global South ‘Women’ Replace Development” Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women’s Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World (New York: Paradigm, 2010), 133-168. 1. According to Eisenstein, how has history demonstrated the strengths of state-led development? 2. How have IFIs impeded state-led development in the Global South? 3. What are the four main work paths for women in the Global South? 4. How has mainstream feminism celebrated the four main work paths? 5. What are Eisenstein’s critiques of mainstream feminism on women and work in the Global South? 6. What is Eisenstein’s position on women-centered development programs in Global South?

Be sure to answer both questions in short essay form. Write in Times New Roman, double-spaced, 12 point font.. Your responses in total should not exceed one page. This is due on Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 11:59pm.

David McNally. “The Day the Music Died: Three Decades of Neoliberalism” Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2011), 25-60.

According to David McNally, by the 1970s “over-accumulated capital and declining profits had induced a great seizing up of the capitalist economy” which prompted the American ruling class to launch a protracted offensive against the American working class and the Global South (25).  (1) According to McNally, what were strategies that the American ruling class employed in the Global South to help increase the rate of profit?  (2) Also, discuss how neoliberal strategies of capital accumulation impacted different Asian economies.