SELECTED TOPICS ON LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION AND ECONOMICS, MALE AND FEMALE PARTICIPATION IN THE RURAL SECTOR

NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
FACULTY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE
2. SEMESTER:
SELECTED TOPICS ON LIVESTOCK
PRODUCTION AND ECONOMICS: MALE
AND FEMALE PARTICIPATION IN THE
RURAL SECTOR (0702).
Eighth to Tenth.
3. CYCLE:
Professional.
4. AREA:
Livestock Production and Economics.
5. COURSE TYPE:
Theory (Elective).
6. DURATION:
Hours per week:
Total number of hours:
7. REQUIREMENTS:
Eight Weeks
Theory: 4
Theory: 32
1921
8. GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
To analyze the Mexican rural sector through the
understanding of concepts, tools, and strategies
with gender
perspective,
to gain a
comprehensive, integral, and social vision about
the livestock production.
1. COURSE SYLLABUS:
Practice:
Practice:
9. TEACHING UNITS
9.1 Unit 1. Introduction to Gender Studies.
9.1.1 Gender Concepts.
9.1.2 Gender Studies.
9.2 Unit 2. The Rural Economy from a Gender Perspective.
9.2.1 Rural Economy.
9.2.2 Income strategy.
9.2.3 New rural setting.
9.3 Unit 3. Historical View of the Participation of Women in México.
9.3.1 Pre Hispanic gender systems.
9.3.2 Women in Colonial Mexico.
9.3.3 Women in the Independence.
9.3.4 Women in the Revolution.
9.3.5 Women in the 20th and 21th Centuries.
9.4 Unit 4. Masculinity.
9.4.1 Types of masculinity.
9.4.2 Masculine identities in the rural sector.
9.4.3 Transformation of masculine roles.
9.5 Unit 5. Situation and problematic of rural women in Mexico.
9.5.1 Demographic aspects.
9.5.2 Socio-cultural aspects.
9.5.3 Education and health.
9.5.4 Citizenship and rights.
9.5.5 Agricultural policy.
9.6 Unit 6. Gender and Environment.
9.6.1 Theories on gender-environment.
9.6.2 Eco-feminism.
9.7 Unit 7. Gender perspective in development programs.
9.7.1 Woman and development.
9.7.2 Gender and development.
9.7.3 Promotion Programs.
9.7.4 Gender-perspective transversality in development.
10. BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Lamas M. El Género. La Construcción Cultural de la Diferencia Sexual. México: UNAMMiguel Ángel Porrúa, 2000.
2. Martínez CB. Género, Empoderamiento y Sustentabilidad una Experiencia de
Microempresa Artesanal de Mujeres Indígenas. México: GIMTRAP, 2000.
3. Martínez CB. Mujeres Rurales, Género, Trabajo y Transformaciones Sociales. México:
Colegio de Postgraduados, 2003.
4. Vázquez GV. Género, Sustentabilidad y Cambio Social en el México Rural. México: El
Colegio de Postgraduados, 1999.
5. Zapata ME. Mujeres Rurales ante el Nuevo Milenio. México: El Colegio de Postgraduados,
1994.
11. SUPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Briefings on Development and Gender (BRIDGE) at the Institute of Development Studies,
University of Sussex http.www.ids.ac.uk/bridge
2. Department for International Development (DFID) http://www.dfid.gov.uk/
3. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Socioeconomic and Gender Analysis Program
www.fao.org/sdWpdirect/default.htm
4. Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres www.inmujeres.gob.mx/
5. La Neta http://www.laneta.apc.org/laneta/
6. Mingo A. ¿Autonomía o Sujeción? Dinámica, Instituciones y Formación de una
Microempresa de Campesinas. México: Miguel Ángel Porrúa, 1997.
7. Programa Interdisciplinario del Estudio de la Mujer, Colegio de México
www.piem.colmex.mx
8. Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México www.pueg.unam.mx/
9. United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) http://www.unifem.undp.org
10. United Nations Development Program – Gender in Development Home Page
http://undp.org/gender7
11. Vázquez GV. ¿Quien cosecha lo sembrado? Relaciones de género en un área natural
protegida mexicana. México: Plaza y Valdéz, 2002.
12. Women Action http://www.womenaction.org
13. World Bank http://worlbank.ogr/gender
14. Zapata ME. Las Mujeres y el Poder contra el Patriarcado y la Pobreza. México: Plaza y
Valdéz, 2002.
Teacher’s presentation.
12. TEACHING METHODOLOGY
Directed readings.
Works presentation.
Discussion Panel.
Seminars.
13. COURSE EVALUATION
Written exams.
Class participation.
Themes presentation.
Written work delivery.
14. REQUIREMENTS FOR
TEACHING THE COURSE
Veterinarian with postgraduate studies in the
field of Gender Perspective and Development,
with a working experience in the rural sector.