Gale Summerfield, WGGP Director

Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
Associate Professor, Human and Community Development
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
320 International Studies Building, MC-480
910 South Fifth Street, Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: 217-333-1977, FAX: 217-333-6270
Email: summrfld@uiuc.edu Webpage: http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/wggp

RESEARCH AREAS:
Gender and Global Human Security; Transition in China and Southeast Asia; Transnational Migration; Development and Globalization

My research focuses on gender, development and globalization issues including strategies to improve conditions during economic and financial crises. I have written on gender aspects of reforms in China and other developing countries, risk and international economic crises, transnational care work, and cross-border sourcing. Current projects focus on human security issues of immigrants and their host communities in small towns and rural areas of the Midwest in the US, gender issues in China since WTO accession, and equity in the global labor market.

Recent publications include:
Berik, G., X. Dong, and G. Summerfield, guest editors of special issue, Gender and China after the WTO, Feminist Economics, in progress.

Summerfield, G., J. Pyle, and M. Desai, eds. Globalizations,Transnational Migration and Gendered Care Work, symposium of papers, Globalizations, No.3, Vol.4, 2006.

Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice, Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2005, edited with Jane Jaquette. Also chapter: “ Gender Equity and Land Reform in Rural China.”

Toward Gender Equity: Strategies and Policies, special issue of International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 16 (3), Spring 2003; edited with Nahid Aslanbeigui and Steven Pressman.

Summerfield, G., guest ed of special issue, Risks and Rights in the 21st Century, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 15 (1), Sept. 2001.