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Jane L. Parpart (born 1940) is a social historian and academic whose focus is on gender and development with particular interest in the global south.

Jane L. Parpart
Born
Barbara Jane Little

1940 (age 83–84)
New Hampshire
Other namesB. Jane Parpart, Barbara Jane Little Parpart, Jane Little Parpart, Jane Parpart
OccupationAcademic

Early life and education

Barbara Jane "Jane" Little was born in New Hampshire in 1940 to Barbara (née Chase) and Elbert Payson Little.[1][2] Her mother was from Rhode Island, and had been a teacher before marrying.[3] Her father was a well-known physicist and pioneering computer scientist.[2] Jane, the eldest of eight siblings, was followed by Elbert Jr., Eleanor, Elizabeth, Hannah, Eric, Katharyn, and William "Buck". The family lived in Exeter, New Hampshire until 1948 and then moved to West Newton, Massachusetts.[2][4] Little graduated from Newton High School in 1957.[5][6] She married Arthur K. Parpart Jr. and then earned a bachelor's degree from Pembroke College in Brown University in 1961.[1][6] Continuing her education, Parpart earned a master's degree (1966) and PhD (1980) from Boston University in African studies.[7][8][9]

Career

In 1981, Parpart began working as an assistant professor in the history department at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.[10] In the fall of 1983, she went to Halifax, Nova Scotia where she started her career at Dalhousie University, as a visiting professor.[11] She worked her way up the ranks, becoming part of the regular staff by 1985 and president of the Dalhousie Women's Faculty Association.[12] She was an associate professor and one of the women who helped formalize the women's studies courses at Dalhousie in 1988.[13][14] Since 1982, courses had been offered and coordinated by Sue Sherwin but no degree was associated with the interdisciplinary curricula and approval was delayed. Eight professors worked on the coordinating committee with Parpart, who was selected to lead the program from Fall 1988.[13] Parpart became a full professor in 1993 and the following year became coordinator of international development studies. She became the Lester B. Pearson Chair of international development studies in 2003 and retained that chair until 2005, when she became a professor emeritus at Dalhousie.[7][15]

Parpart served as a visiting professor and the graduate coordinator in the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago from 2007 to 2011.[15][16] She also worked as a research fellow for the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics until 2015.[15] Parpart and her husband, political scientist Timothy M. Shaw became adjunct research fellows of the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2012.[17][18] In 2019, the couple established a graduate scholarship in international development studies and political sciences at Dalhousie.[19] She is on the editorial board of the journal African Security.[20]

Research

Parpart's work has focused on the intersections of gender, agency, and development with a focus on the Global South and particularly Africa.

Selected works

  • Parpart, Barbara Jane Little. Labor and Capital on the Copperbelt: African Labor Strategy and Corporate Labor Strategy in the Northern Rhodesian Copper Mines, 1924-1964 (PhD). Boston, Massachusetts: Boston University. OCLC 8523580.
  • Parpart, Jane L.; Staudt, Kathleen A., eds. (1989). Women and the State in Africa. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers. doi:10.1515/9781685853037. ISBN 978-1-68585-303-7.
  • Parpart, Jane L. (July 1993). "Who is the 'Other'?: A Postmodern Feminist Critique of Women and Development Theory and Practice". Development and Change. 24 (3). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell: 439–464. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7660.1993.tb00492.x. ISSN 0012-155X. OCLC 5156186035.
  • Parpart, Jane L.; Connelly, M. Patricia; Barriteau, V. Eudine, eds. (2000). Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development. Ottawa, Ontario: International Development Research Centre. ISBN 978-0-88936-910-8.
  • Parpart, Jane L.; Rai, Shirin M.; Staudt, Kathleen, eds. (2002). Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/Local World. Warwick Studies in Globalisation. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-27769-3.
  • Marchand, Marianne H.; Parpart, Jane L., eds. (2003). Feminism/ Postmodernism/ Development (PDF) (Ebook ed.). London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-42609-8.
  • Parpart, Jane L.; Zalewski, Marysia, eds. (2008). Rethinking the Man Question: Sex, Gender and Violence in International Relations. London, UK: Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-84277-979-8.
  • Parpart, Jane L. (April 2014). "Exploring the Transformative Potential of Gender Mainstreaming in International Development Institutions". Journal of International Development. 26 (3). New York, New York: John Wiley & Sons: 382–395. doi:10.1002/jid.2948. ISSN 0954-1748. OCLC 5566337085.
  • Parpart, Jane; McFee, Deborah (December 2017). "Rethinking Gender Mainstreaming in Development Policy and Practice" (PDF). Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (11). Saint Augustine, Trinidad: University of the West Indies: 242–252. ISSN 1995-1108.
  • Parpart, Jane L. (July 2020). "Rethinking Silence, Gender and Power in Insecure Sites: Implications for Feminist Security Studies in a Postcolonial World". Review of International Studies. 46 (3). Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press: 315–324. doi:10.1017/S026021051900041X. ISSN 0260-2105. OCLC 8611553115.

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b Bishop et al. 1971, p. 15.
  2. ^ a b c The Boston Globe 1983, p. 56.
  3. ^ The Boston Globe 1939, p. 6.
  4. ^ The Boston Globe 1977, p. 22.
  5. ^ The Newton Graphic 1957, p. 7.
  6. ^ a b The Newton Graphic 1961, p. 5.
  7. ^ a b Parpart 2020, p. 2.
  8. ^ The Historian 1965, p. 193.
  9. ^ Lagace & Rotz 2013, p. 17.
  10. ^ Spear 1981, p. 40.
  11. ^ Parpart & Shaw 1983, p. 23.
  12. ^ Williams & Corbett 1985, p. 1.
  13. ^ a b Hueston 1988, p. 3.
  14. ^ Southall 1988, p. ix-x.
  15. ^ a b c Lagace & Rotz 2013, p. 20.
  16. ^ Parpart & Kabeer 2010, p. 1.
  17. ^ McCormack Speaks 2017.
  18. ^ UMass Boston 2024.
  19. ^ Political Science News 2019, pp. 2–3.
  20. ^ Taylor & Francis 2024.

Bibliography


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