Beneria, Lourdes
Professorresearch
research and scholarship focus
- gender and development
- labor markets
- women's work
- globalization
- European integration
- Latin American development
- labor market informalization
- poverty
- Urban households and poverty in Bolivia and Ecuador
- Labor market informalization and the changing landscapes of cities
- Feminization of international migration and the care crisis in Europe.
international geographic focus
- Bolivia | country
- Ecuador | country
- Latin America | trans-national region
- Spain | country
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- City and Regional Planning (CRP) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- City and Regional Planning | graduate field
- Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies | minor graduate field
- International Development | graduate field
- Latin American Studies | minor graduate field
- Latino Studies | minor graduate field
- Public Affairs | graduate field
other Cornell affiliations
- Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) | research center
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) | academic program office
- Latino Studies Program | academic program office
teaching
teaches
- CRP 3650 - Gender and Globalization (TR 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 4900 - Student-Faculty Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 4920 - Undergraduate Honors Thesis Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 4930 - Undergraduate Honors Thesis Writing (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 4970 - Independent Study (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 6720 - International Institutions (TR 11:40:AM-12:55:PM) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 7970 - Independent Study for Graduate Students (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 8910 - Masters Thesis in Regional Science (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 8920 - Masters Thesis, Project, or Research Paper (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 9920 - Doctoral Dissertation (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- FGSS 3600 - Gender and Globalization (TR 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2009 class
- LATA 3650 - Gender and Globalization (TR 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2009 class
- CRP 4900 - Student-Faculty Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 4920 - Undergraduate Honors Thesis Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 4930 - Undergraduate Honors Thesis Writing (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 4970 - Independent Study (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 7940 - Planning Internships (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 7970 - Independent Study for Graduate Students (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 8920 - Masters Thesis, Project, or Research Paper (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 9920 - Doctoral Dissertation (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- CRP 3650 - Gender and Globalization (TR 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2008 class
- CRP 6720 - International Institutions (T 11:40:AM-02:10:PM) | fall 2008 class
- FGSS 3600 - Gender and Globalization (TR 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2008 class
service
current professional activities
- Director, International Studies in Planning Program, Cornell University
- Member, International Advisory Board for the International Labor Organization's Global Programme on Socioeconomic Security
- Member, UNDP's Directory of Appointed Experts on Poverty, Latin America and the Caribbean
background
educational background
- Lic., University of Barcelona, Spain, 1961
- M.Ph., Columbia University, 1974
- Ph.D., Columbia University, 1975
professional background
- Director, Gender and Global Change Program, Cornell University
- Member, International Advisory Committee for the UNIFEM report on World's Women's Progress, 2000
- Member, Research Advisory Council of the Economic Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.
publications
selected publications (listing in progress)
Books
- Gender, Development and Globalization, Economics as if all People Mattered, Routledge 2003. Spanish translation published by Editorial Hacer, Barcelona 2005.
- Editor (with Savitri Bisnath), Global Tensions. Challenges and Opportunites in the World Economy, Routledge 2003.
- “The Crisis of Care, International Migration and Public Policy” forthcoming in Feminist Economics.
- “From Harmony to Ccoperative Conflicts; Amartya Sen’s Contribution to Household Theory,” forthcoming in Ravi Kanbur and Kaushik Basu, eds., Arguments for a Better World. Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Vol. II: Ethics, Welfare and Measurement.
- Spanish translation: De la “armonía” a los “conflictos cooperativos,” forthcoming in Araucaria (Complutense University, Madrid).
- “Globalització, gènere i la transformació del rol de les dones,” (“Globalization, Gender and the Transformation of Women’s Roles,” Revista Catalana de Geografia, Fall 2008.
- “Labor Market Informalization, Gender and Social Protection: Reflections on Poor Urban Households in Bolivia, Ecuador and Thailand,” (with Maria Floro), in S. Razawi and S. Hassim, eds., Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context, Palgrave 2006 (with Maria Floro),
contact
email address
lb21@cornell.edu