SHELLEY FELDMAN

SHELLEY FELDMAN

rf12@cornell.edu;


Current Position
Professor, Development Sociology, and Director,
Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cornell University
Visiting Professor, Sociology, Binghamton University and the Fernand Braudel Center

Previous Positions
Chair, Social Science Task Force, CALS, 2002-2003
Director, Postdoctoral Studies, Cornell University, Spring, 2001
Associate Dean, Graduate School, Cornell University, FY2000
Director, South Asia Program, Cornell University, 1994-1998
Director, Program on Gender and Global Change, 1993-1994
Recent Research Grants and Activities
Mario Einaudi Center, Cornell University, 2007
Islam, Social Regulation & Democratic Reform: Women Negotiating Civil, Religious, & Customary Law
Institute for the Social Sciences, Competitive Small Grant, Cornell University, 2005-06
Building A Sociology of Displacement, with Charles Geisler
A.D. White Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2003-2004
Islamic (Con)fusions: Liberatory Tensions in a Secularizing Moment
IFPRI Network Associate, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C., 2002-03
American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, 1998-1999
Making Borders, Constructing States: Institutional Practices in Building the Nation: Aftermath of the 1947 Partition
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1997-2000
No Cash, Vouchers: New Labor Relations as Mediums of Exchange
Department of Education, South Asia Program National Resource Center, 1997
(Consortia with Syracuse University)
Ford Foundation Workshops for Improvement of Graduate Students Research, 1996-01
Cornell University, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies: Nationalism, Citizenship & Identity Formation
Peace Studies Program, Cornell University, 1996
Borderlines and Timelines: The 1947 Bengal Partition
Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, Affiliated Scholar (Summer 1995, 1997)
University of California, Berkeley
Historicizing the Present: Gender and Transnationalized Islam in Bangladesh
Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, Affiliated Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, 1994-1995
Gender, Generation, and Globalization: State Practices in Bangladesh, 1975-1990
MacArthur Foundation Planning Grant, 1991 Strategies for Sustaining Agriculture, Natural Resources, and
Communities in the Uplands of the Insular Economies of Southeast Asia, with Randolph Barker, David Kummer
and Stephen Siebert
Ford Foundation, Tanzania Collaborative Research & Training Project with Morogoro Agricultural University, 1990
Social and Horticultural Issues in Vegetable Crop Production, with H. C. Wien
USDA-ERS-ARED Grant, 1990
Survival Strategies of Low Income Rural Families
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Ford Foundation Grant, Economic Crisis, Household Survival Strategies and Women's Work, 1988
International Conference and Book Project, with Lourdes Benería
USDA-Hatch Grant, 1986
Changes in the Dairy Industry and Their Consequences for Labor Market Dynamics
USDA-Hatch Grant, 1985
Conceptual and Empirical Analyses of the Rural Nonformal Employment Sector
Senior Fulbright Award, Grant No. 83-006-IC (10-3-83), 1984
The Social Construction of a Working Class in Bangladesh
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Review Editor, and Co-Author of the Synthesis Report
International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development, 2006-07
Gender Specialist, The World Bank, Washington, DC and Bangladesh, 1989
Socioeconomic Survey Analyst, Food & Agricultural Organization (FAO), Bangladesh, 1982
Planning and Evaluation Specialist, Danish Intl. Development Authority, (DANIDA), Bangladesh, 1981
Research and Evaluation Specialist, Swedish Intl. Development Authority (SIDA), Bangladesh, 1981
Research and Evaluation Advisor, Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Bangladesh (IRDP),
CIDA Support Project, 1978-80
Assessment Advisor, Oxfam, UK, 1978
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Shelley Feldman and Eveline Ferretti. Informal Work and Social Change: A Bibliographic Survey of the Literature. Ithaca, NY:
ILR Press, Cornell University Press, 1998.
Lourdes Benería and Shelley Feldman (eds.), Unequal Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and Women's Work.
Colorado: Westview Press, 1992.
Muzaffar Ahmed, Philip English, Shelley Feldman, Mosharaff Hossain, Erik G. Jansen, Florence E. McCarthy, Koen de
Wilde and Roger Young. Rural Poverty in Bangladesh: A Report to the Like-Minded Group. Dhaka: The University Press
Ltd., 1990.
Articles
Shelley Feldman and Paul Gellert, The Seductive Quality of Central Human Capabilities: Sociological Insights into
Nussbaum and Sen’s Disagreement, Economy and Society, 35(August): 423-452, 2006.
Bengali state and nation making: Partition and displacement revisited, International Social Science Journal, ISSJ, No. 175:
March 2003
Shelley Feldman, Charles Geisler, and Louise Silberling, Moving Targets: Displacement, impoverishment, and
development: An Introduction, International Social Science Journal, ISSJ, No. 175: March 2003
Paradoxes of Institutionalization: The Depoliticisation of Bangladeshi NGOs, Development in Practice, 13, 1(February):5-
26, 2003.
Intersecting and Contesting Positions: World Systems, Postcolonial, and Feminist Theory, REVIEW, XXIV, 3, 2001.
Also in Political Economy of the World System, Ramon Grosfogel and Margarita Rodriguez, eds., Greenwood Press,
2001.
Exploring Theories of Patriarchy: A Perspective from Contemporary Bangladesh, SIGNS, 26, 4, (2001): 1097-1127.
Response to Oded Stark, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 48, 4(July 2000):889-891.
Feminist Interruptions: The Silence of the East Bengal Voice in Story of Partition, Interventions, 1999, 1(2):167-182.
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Shelley Feldman and Stephanie Buechler, Negotiating Difference: Constructing Selves and Others in a Transnational
Apparel Manufacturing Firm. Sociological Quarterly 1998, 39(4):623-644.
Julie P. Leones and Shelley Feldman, The impact of non-farm activity on income in a Philippine upland village, Economic
Development and Cultural Change, 46:4(1998):789-806.
NGOs and Civil Society: (Un)stated Contradictions, ANNALS, American Association of Political and Social Science,
554(November)1997:46-65. Republished in Rounaq Jahan (ed.), Bangladesh: Politics, Society, Economy, London: Zed
and Dhaka: University Press Limited, 2000.
Mary Cockram and Shelley Feldman. 1996. The Bountiful City: Gardens in Third World Cities. African Urban Quarterly
1, 2/3, (1996): 202-208.
Shelley Feldman and Rick Welsh, Feminist Knowledge Claims, Local Knowledge, and Gender Divisions of Agricultural
Labor: Constructing a Successor Science. Rural Sociology, 60:1(Spring), 1995: 23-43.
Still invisible: Women in the informal sector. Rita Gallin and Anne Ferguson (eds.), Women in Development Annual, Vol.
11. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.
Overpopulation as crisis: Redirecting health care services in rural Bangladesh, International Journal of Health Services, 17, 1,
1987:113-131.
Shelley Feldman and Florence E. McCarthy, Persistence of the small holder, withering away of the small farmer:
Comments on Bhaduri, Rahman and Arn, Journal of Peasant Studies 14, 4 (July), 1987:543-548.
Florence E. McCarthy and Shelley Feldman, Administrative reforms in Bangladesh: Incorporation or democratization?
International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 24(3 & 4), 1987: 99-111.
Florence E. McCarthy and Shelley Feldman, Human rights as class conflict: A reconceptualization of the issues, South
Asia Bulletin 7 (Spring/Fall), 1987: 64-67.
Shelley Feldman and Florence E. McCarthy, Guest Editors and Introduction for special issue, Women in Development
in South Asia, South Asia Bulletin 6, 1 (Spring), 1986: 1-2.
Shelley Feldman and Florence E. McCarthy, Constraints challenging the cooperative strategy in Bangladesh, South Asia
Bulletin, IV (2), 1984: 11-22.
Florence McCarthy and Shelley Feldman, Rural women discovered: New sources of capital and labour in Bangladesh,
Development and Change 14 (2), 1983: 211-236.
Shelley Feldman and Florence E. McCarthy, Disaster response in Bangladesh, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and
Disasters, 1 (1), 1983:105-124.
Shelley Feldman and Florence E. McCarthy, Purdah and changing patterns of social control among rural women in
Bangladesh, Journal of Marriage and the Family 45, 4 (November), 1983:949-959.
The use of private health care providers in rural Bangladesh: A response to Claquin, Social Science and Medicine 17 (23),
1983: 1887-1896.
Shelley Feldman and Florence E. McCarthy, Conditions influencing rural and town women's participation in the labor
force, International Journal of Intercultural Relations 6 (4), 1982:421-440.
Book Chapters
Looking across the Horizon, in Boundaries in Depth and in Motion, I. William Zartman, ed., Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, under review
Gender and Law(s): Moral Regulation in Contemporary Bangladesh, in Family, Gender and Law, Manisha Desai and
Kenneth Cuno eds., forthcoming.
Social Development, Capabilities, and the Contradictions of (Capitalist) Development, Stephen L. Esquith, eds,
Development Ethics: The Capability Approach in Practice, forthcoming
Governance NGOs and Development, in Handbook of International Development Governance, Huque, A. S. and H.
Zafarullah eds. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2005
Shelley Feldman and Desi Larson Child Labor in Bangladesh in Traver, E., Larson, D., and Schmitz, C. eds. Child
Labor, World View of Social Issues Series, Greenwood Publishing, 2004.
Bangladesh, Pp. 57-83 in Women’s Issues in Asia, Manish Desai ed., Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing, 2003.
Shelley Feldman and Kamal Siddiqui, Dhaka, The Capital of Bangladesh. The Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures, Human
Relations Area Files, Inc. 2002.
Metaphor and Myth: Gender and Islam in Bangladesh, In Essays on the Muslims of Bengal. Rafiuddin Ahmed, ed. New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Bangladesh, Pp. 1504-05 In Women's Studies Encyclopedia, H. Tierney ed. London: Aldwych Press, 1999.
(Re)presenting Islam: Manipulating Gender, Shifting State Practices and Class Frustrations, in Appropriating Gender:
Women's Activism and the Politicization of Religion in South Asia. Patricia Jeffery and Amrita Basu ed., London:
Routledge, 1998.
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Conceptualizing Change and Equality in the 'Third World’. in Women in the Third World: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary
Issues. Nelly P. Stromquist, ed. With Karen Monkman. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.
Wien, H.C., S. Feldman and R. Minja. Smallholder Vegetable Production in Northern Tanzania: Constraints and
Opportunities. Pp. 40-55 in J. E. Jackson, A. D. Turner, and M. L. Matanda eds. Smallholder Horticulture in Zimbabwe.
Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, 1997.
Class relations and labor market differentiation in rural Bangladesh. Pp. 99-132 in Bruce Koppel, John Hawkins, and
William James, eds. Development or Deterioration: Work in Rural Asia. Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1994.
Clive Lightfoot, Shelley Feldman, and M. Zainul Abedin, Incorporating gender in conceptual diagrams of households
and agroecosystems, Pp. 66-70 in H. S. Feldstein and J. Jiggins eds. Tools for the Field: Methodologies Handbook for
Gender Analysis in Agriculture. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1994.
Ann Tickamyer et al., Women and Persistent Rural Poverty. Pp. 200-229 in Rural Sociological Society (Gene Summers,
ed.), Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty, Foreword by Emery N. Castle, Persistent Poverty in Rural America.
Colorado: Westview Press, 1993.
Crises, poverty and gender inequality: Current themes and issues. Ch. 1 in Lourdes Benería and Shelley Feldman eds.
Unequal Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and Women's Work. Colorado: Westview Press, 1992.
Crisis, Islam and Gender in Bangladesh: The social construction of a female labor force. Ch. 5 in Lourdes Benería and
Shelley Feldman eds. Unequal Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and Women's Work. Colorado: Westview Press,
1992.
Bangladeshi Women, Pp. 49-51 in Women's Studies Encyclopedia. H. Tierney ed. CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Contradictions of gender inequality: Urban class formation in contemporary Bangladesh. Pp. 215-245 in Alice Clark ed.,
Gender and Political Economy: Explorations of South Asian Systems. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992.
The role of rural Bangladeshi women in livestock production, Shelley Feldman, Fazila Banu and Florence E. McCarthy.
Pp. 347-371 in Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter eds. Sociology of Natural Resources in Pakistan and Adjoining
Countries. Lahore, Pakistan: Vanguard Books, 1992.
Rural Industrialization: The Shaping of `Class' Relations in Bangladesh. Pp. 119-138 in Scott G. McNall, Rhonda F.
Levine, and Rick Fantasia eds. Bringing Class Back In: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives. Boulder: Westview Press,
1991.
Lois Levitan and Shelley Feldman, For love or money: Nonmonetary economic arrangements among rural households in
central New York, Pp. 149-172 in Daniel C. Clay and Harry K. Schwarzweller eds., Research in Rural Sociology and
Development, Vol. 5. Connecticut: JAI Press, Inc., 1991.
Florence E. McCarthy, Michael Haller and Shelley Feldman, Decentralization and Its Consequences for the Political
Process In Bangladesh. Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi ed., Issues in Comparative Local Government. Delhi: Indian Social
Science Research Council, 1991.
Human rights and the new industrial working class in Bangladesh. Pp. 145-172 in Claude E. Welch, Jr. ed.,Human Rights
in Developing Countries: Problems and Prospects, Vol. II: South Asia. State University of New York at Buffalo: Council
on International Studies, 1989; and revised in pp. 218-234 in Claude E. Welch, Jr. and Virginia A. Leary eds., Asian
Perspectives on Human Rights. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990.
Florence E. McCarthy and Shelley Feldman. Rural women discovered: New sources of capital and labor in Bangladesh.
Pp. l46-l79 in M. Francis Abraham and P. Subhadra Abraham eds. Women, Development and Change: The Third World
Experience. Bristol, Indiana: Wyndham Hall Press, 1988.
Revisioning the curriculum: Institutional responses to women’s studies in Higher Education. Pp. 33-48 in Women’s
Education: Gender and the Politics of the College Curriculum, Seoul, Korea: Research Center for Asian Women and
Sookmyung Women’s University, 1996
Shelley Feldman and Itty Abraham. 1995. Notes on Field Development. Items, 49:4 (December): 94-98. New York:
Social Science Research Council
Shelley Feldman, Ruth Minja, and Chris Wien. 1994. Vegetable Production in Tanzania: A Four Village Case Study in Arumeru
District. A Ford Foundation-sponsored collaborative program on vegetables between Sokoine University of
Agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development of Tanzania, and Cornell University
Ann Tickamyer, Rosalind Harris, Janet Bokemeier, Shelley Feldman, John Paul Jones, and DeeAnn Wenk. 1993.
Women and Persistent Rural Poverty, Working Group Report, Rural Sociological Society Task Force on Persistent
Rural Poverty, 1993
Contributor to Land, Forests, and Sustainable Community Development in Insular Southeast Asia: Bibliography and
Review of the Literature. Prepared by the Southeast Asian Island Network on Upland and Logged-Over Areas
(SINULOG). Support provided through a research planning grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation. December, 1992
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Clive Lightfoot, Shelley Feldman, and Zainul Abedin, Households, agroecosystems and rural resources management (Exercises for
broadening the concepts of gender and farming systems). Bangladesh and the Philippines: BARI and ICLARM.
ICLARM Education Series 12, ICLARM No. 674, (Self-learning text), 1992
The harder they sow: The impact of agricultural policies on women, in World Food Issues, 3rd Edition. Ithaca, N.Y.:
Center for the Analysis of World Food Issues, Program in International Agriculture, Cornell University, 1990
Florence E. McCarthy and Shelley Feldman, Administrative Reforms in Bangladesh. Pp. 233-244 in Tony K. Stewart
ed., Shaping Bengali Worlds, Public and Private. Michigan State University: Asian Studies Center Occasional Paper 37,
1989
Strategies for Women and Employment Generation in Bangladesh, World Bank, June, 1989
Shelley Feldman and Florence E. McCarthy, Processes of impoverishment in Bangladesh: Reconceptualizing poverty
and resources, Journal of Social Studies 39 (January), 1988:1-21
Shelley Feldman and Florence E. McCarthy, Rural Women and Development in Bangladesh: Selected Issues. Oslo: NORAD,
Ministry of Development Cooperation, 1984
Shelley Feldman, Farida Akhter and Fazila Banu, The IRDP Women's Programme: Some Critical Issues, Journal of
Management, Business and Economics 8 (2), 1982:191-219
Methodological interventions in programme assessment and evaluation research, Pp. 206-223 in Exploring the Other Half:
Field Research with Rural Women in Bangladesh, Shamina Islam ed., Dacca: Women for Women, 1982
Women's Labour Force Participation in Bangladesh: Some Theoretical Considerations, in Women, Politics and Literature in
Bengal, C. B. Seely ed.,Michigan State University, South Asia Series, Occasional Paper No. 30, 1981
Rural infrastructural development and its effects on reproductive behavior, Journal of Social Studies 7 (January), 1980:27-44.
Book Reviews
Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America, Margaret K. Nelson and Joan Smith. University of
California Press, 1999. 279 pp. In Social Forces, 2001, 80, 1, September 371-373.
Basu, Srimati. She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 1999; Butalia, Urvashi. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. Durham, NC: Duke University
Press; and Menon, Ritu and Kamla Bhasin. Borders & Boundaries: Women in India=s Partition. New Brunswick,
NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998 in NWSJ, 13(3):2001.
Women, Work, and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa by Valentine M. Moghadam. Boulder and London:
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998. Contemporary Sociology, 26, 6(November, 1999):704_705.
The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women’s Movements in Global Perspective, Amrita Basu, Editor, Boulder, CO: Westview, 1995
and Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries: A Global Perspective. Parvin Ghorayshi and Claire Bélanger,
Editors., Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996 in Gender and Society, February 13:1(1999):148-151.
Gender and Development : Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory by Catherine V. Scott. Boulder, CO: Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 1995. Journal of Developing Areas, 31:1(Fall, 1996) 12-113.
Women's Work and Women's Lives: The Continuing Struggle Worldwide, ed. by Hilda Kahne and Janet Z. Giele. Boulder:
Westview Press, 1992. Work and Occupations. 21 (3):339-341, 1994
The Violence of the Green Revolution, by Vandana Shiva. London: Zed Books Ltd, 1991. Science & Society 58 (1):101-104,
1994
Marxist Approaches in Economic Anthropology, ed. by Alice Littlefield and Hill Gates. Lanham, MD: University Press of
America, 1991. Science & Society 58 (1):102-104, 1994
Economy and Culture in Pakistan: Migrants and Cities in a Muslim Society, ed. by Hastings Donnan and Pnina Werbner. New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Contemporary Sociology, 22 (5):690-691, 1994
Women Workers and Global Restructuring. By Kathryn Ward (ed.), Ithaca: ILR Press. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 45,
2 (January), 1992:398-400
Women and the International Division of Labour. By Sharon B. Stichter and Jane L. Parpart (eds.). London: Macmillan Press.
Contemporary Sociology 20 (5)722-723, 1991.
The Great Ascent: The Rural Poor in South Asia, by Indirjit Singh. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Published for the World Bank, 1990, 444 pp. Rural Sociology 57 (Summer), 1992:282-284
Rural Change in Southeast India, 1950s to 1980s. By Kathleen Gough. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, in
American Journal of Sociology, September, 1990
New Technology and Rural Development: The Social Impact, ed. by M.J. Campbell. Routledge, Choice, (1990):513
Patriarchy and Class: African Women in the Home and the Work Force, by Sharon B. Stichter and Jane L. Parpart (eds.), Choice
26, 1989:l566
Women and the Politics of Empowerment, by Ann Bookman and Sandra Morgen, Choice, Vol 25, p. 638, 1988
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The Invisible Resource: Women and Work in Rural Bangladesh, by Ben J. Wallace et al., in Economic Development & Cultural
Change, 37 (3):234-237; a longer version in Journal of Social Studies 4l (July):98-107, 1988
Basic Needs, Women, and Development: A Survey of Squatters in Lahore, Pakistan, by Nasra M. Shah and Muhammad Anwar, in
Contemporary Sociology l7 (3), 1988:345-346
The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City, by Lourdes
Beneria and Martha Roldan, in Choice, Vol. 25, p. 4l7, 1987
The Invisible Resource: Women and Work in Rural Bangladesh, by Ben J. Wallace et al., in Choice, Vol. 25, pp. 629-30, 1987
Visibility and Power: Essays on Women in Society and Development, by Leela Dube, Eleanor Leacock, and Shirley Ardener, in
Choice, Vol. 25, p. 4ll, 1987
Shelley Feldman and Florence E. McCarthy, Behind the Poison Cloud: Union Carbide's Bhopal Massacre, by Larry Everest, in
South Asia Bulletin 6, 1 (Spring), 1986:51-52
Shelley Feldman and Florence E. McCarthy, Village Women of Bangladesh: Prospects for Change, by Tahrunnessa A. Abdullah
and Sondra A. Zeidenstein, in Journal of Management Business and Economics 9 (3), 1983:346-352
Other Articles and Monographs
Women, Gender and Family and Islamic Discourses (Modern Period): South Asia. . Suad Joseph, ed., Encyclopedia of
Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC), The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.
Patriarchy: Overview and Theories, Barbara Engel, ed. Oxford Encyclopedia of Women’s History. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2006.
Linda B. Williams and Shelley Feldman, Women, Gender, and Development and Family: Southeast Asia. Suad Joseph,
ed., Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC), The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.
Shelley Feldman and Linda B. Williams, Women, Gender, and Development and Family: Overview. Suad Joseph, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC), The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006
Shelley Feldman and Karuna Morarji Highway Courtesans: Young Women’s Lives on a Highway to Elsewhere and
Nowhere,” review of Highway Courtesans film by directed Mystelle Brabbee, Hindi with English subtitles, 2005,
womenmakemovies.com in Visual Anthropology, 20 (2-3): 251
Michelle Adato and Shelley Feldman, Empowering Women to Achieve Food Security: Social Safety Nets in Empowering
Women to Achieve Food Security, Agnes R. Quisumbing and Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick, Eds. Focus 6, Policy Brief 1,
August 2001, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
With Michelle Adato, Empowering Women to Achieve Food Security: Social Safety Nets in Empowering Women to Achieve
Food Security, Agnes R. Quisumbing and Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick, (Eds.), Focus 6, Policy Brief 1, August 2001,
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
Revisioning the curriculum: Institutional responses to women’s studies in Higher Education. Pp. 33-48 in Women’s
Education: Gender and the Politics of the College Curriculum, Seoul, Korea: Research Center for Asian Women and
Sookmyung Women’s University, 1996
Shelley Feldman and Itty Abraham. 1995. Notes on Field Development. Items, 49:4 (December): 94-98. New York:
Social Science Research Council
Shelley Feldman, Ruth Minja, and Chris Wien. 1994. Vegetable Production in Tanzania: A Four Village Case Study in Arumeru
District. A Ford Foundation-sponsored collaborative program on vegetables between Sokoine University of
Agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development of Tanzania, and Cornell University
Ann Tickamyer, Rosalind Harris, Janet Bokemeier, Shelley Feldman, John Paul Jones, and DeeAnn Wenk. 1993.
Women and Persistent Rural Poverty, Working Group Report, Rural Sociological Society Task Force on Persistent
Rural Poverty, 1993
Contributor to Land, Forests, and Sustainable Community Development in Insular Southeast Asia: Bibliography and
Review of the Literature. Prepared by the Southeast Asian Island Network on Upland and Logged-Over Areas
(SINULOG). Support provided through a research planning grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation. December, 1992
Clive Lightfoot, Shelley Feldman, and Zainul Abedin, Households, agroecosystems and rural resources management (Exercises for
broadening the concepts of gender and farming systems). Bangladesh and the Philippines: BARI and ICLARM.
ICLARM Education Series 12, ICLARM No. 674, (Self-learning text), 1992
The harder they sow: The impact of agricultural policies on women, in World Food Issues, 3rd Edition. Ithaca, N.Y.:
Center for the Analysis of World Food Issues, Program in International Agriculture, Cornell University, 1990
Florence E. McCarthy and Shelley Feldman, Administrative Reforms in Bangladesh. Pp. 233-244 in Tony K. Stewart
(ed.), Shaping Bengali Worlds, Public and Private. Michigan State University: Asian Studies Center Occasional Paper 37,
1989
Strategies for Women and Employment Generation in Bangladesh, World Bank, June, 1989
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Shelley Feldman and Florence E. McCarthy, Processes of impoverishment in Bangladesh: Reconceptualizing poverty
and resources, Journal of Social Studies 39 (January), 1988:1-21
Shelley Feldman and Florence E. McCarthy, Rural Women and Development in Bangladesh: Selected Issues. Oslo: NORAD,
Ministry of Development Cooperation, 1984
Shelley Feldman, Farida Akhter and Fazila Banu, The IRDP Women's Programme: Some Critical Issues, Journal of
Management, Business and Economics 8 (2), 1982:191-219
Methodological interventions in programme assessment and evaluation research, Pp. 206-223 in Exploring the Other Half:
Field Research with Rural Women in Bangladesh, Shamina Islam (ed.). Dacca: Women for Women, 1982
Women's Labour Force Participation in Bangladesh: Some Theoretical Considerations, in Women, Politics and Literature in
Bengal, C. B. Seely (ed.), Michigan State University, South Asia Series, Occasional Paper No. 30, 1981
Rural infrastructural development & its effects on reproductive behavior, Journal of Social Studies 7 (January), 1980: 27-44.
Conferences and Papers (since 1997)
Memory and History: In Honor of the Liberation War Museum, Victory Celebration, Liberation War Museum, Dhaka,
Bangladesh, December 2006
Households, Labor and Global Capitalism: A Close Encounter with Joan Smith at A Conference in Honor of Joan
Smith's Contribution to Scholarship entitled Rethinking Political Economy: Class, Race, Gender and Nation,
Burlington, Vermont, November 10-11, 2006.
Shelley Feldman organized and chaired the panel, Interdisciplinary Conversations: Macro-historical Engagements with
Capabilities and Entitlements, at the Social Science and History Meetings, Minneapolis, MN, November 5-6, 2006.
Shelley Feldman and Paul Gellert, The Seductive Quality of Central Human Capabilities, at the Social Science and
History Meetings, Minneapolis, MN, November 5-6, 2006.
Shelley Feldman and Paul Gellert, The Devil is in the Details: Central Human Capabilities and Human Development, at
the Social Science and History Meetings, Minneapolis, MN, November 5-6, 2006.
Shelley Feldman presented a paper on current trends and future scenarios in global inequality organized by Patricio
Korzeniewicz and Tim Moran at the Russell Sage Foundation, New York City, 26-27 October 2006.
Claiming a Past, Making a Future: The Bangladesh Liberation War Museum, South Asia Center, Research Triangle,
North Carolina, September 2006
Fear and Loathing: How Militarization Is Reshaping Everyday Life, September 11, Then and Now: Reflections on
Culture and Conflict, Cornell University, September 11 2006.
Shelley Feldman and Beatrice Manning, Alienation, Social Contract, Individualism and the Contemporary Crisis,
American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 2006
Chair and Discussant, The Bengal Partition Reexamined, Asian Studies Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco,
CA, April 2006
Social Regulation in the Idiom of Islam: Challenges to the Globalization Project, International Studies Association
Annual Meetings, San Diego, March 2006.
Chair and Discussant, Globalization Past and Present: Theories, Ideas and Historical Outcomes, Social Science History
Association Annual Meetings, Portland, Oregon, November 2005
Claiming a Past, Making a future: The Muktijoddah Jadughar ([Bangladesh] War Museum) as a Site of Struggle, 2005/06
Aziz Ahmad Lecture, University of Toronto, Centre for South Asian Studies, 16 September 2005
Linda Shaw and Shelley Feldman, Attacking Welfare Fraud from the Bottom Up, paper given at the conference, New
Legal Realism meets Feminism and Legal Theory: Combining Legal and Empirical Research to Generate New
Perspectives on Work, Family, and Gendered Lives, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. 24-25 June 2005
Invited Lecture, Gender and Law(s): Moral Regulation and Emergent Institutional Regimes under a Contested
Neoliberalism, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, 5 May 2005
Moral Regulation, Gender, and the Changing Role of Religious Identity, World Systemic Crisis and Contending Political
Scenarios, 29
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Conference of the Political Economy of the World System (PEWS), April 2005
Social Development, Capabilities, and the Contradictions of (Capitalist) Development, Ethics and Development
Conference, Michigan State University, Department of Philosophy, 11-13 April 2005
Discipline and Regulate: Morality and the Art of Governance, International Studies Association, Pre-Conference
Workshop entitled Poverty in World Politics: Towards a critique of methodological choices, discipline(s) and
boundaries, Honolulu, Hawaii March 2005
Gendering Globalization Studies, Globalizing Gender Studies, Women’s Faculty Forum, Yale University, November,
2004
Gender and Law: Moral Regulation in Contemporary Bangladesh, at the Family, Gender and Law Symposium,
University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, October 2004.
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For Money and Opportunity: In-situ Displacement among Migrants in Bangladesh, at the International Rural Sociology
Meetings, Trondheim, Norway, 25-30 July 2004
Jason Cons, Shelley Feldman, and Charles Geisler, Displacing States: Beyond Territorialization and Deterritorialization,
at the International Rural Sociology Meetings, Trondheim, Norway, 25-30 July 2004
International Experiences, Bangladesh and SEWA, at the Conference Woman and Unions: Still the Most Difficult
Revolution? 100
th
Birthday Anniversary of Alice Cook, Cornell University, College of Industrial and Labor
Relations, 22-23 November 2003
Paul Gellert and Shelley Feldman, The Devil is in the Details: Nussbaum’s Central Human Capabilities and Human
Development, at Political Sociology Roundtables, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association,
Atlanta GA, 16-19 August 2003
Shelley Feldman and Paul Gellert, The Seductive Quality of Central Human Capabilities: Rethinking Nussbaum’s Liberal
Approach to Development, at Political Sociology Roundtables, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological
Association, Atlanta GA, 16-19 August 2003
Moral Regulation: Gender, Islam, and the Crisis of Global Capital, at the Feminisms and Fundamentalisms Symposium
on Politics, Religion, and Culture in Contemporary South Asia, University of Washington, Seattle, 27-28, April
2003.
Gender, Globalization, and Garment Manufacturing: Contradictory Practices in 21
st
Century Bangladesh, at the
University of Iowa International Seminar Series, Gender and Rapid Economic Growth in Contemporary East,
Southeast, and South Asia, Iowa City, March 2003.
Memorializing the Emergence of Bangladesh: The Liberation War Museum. Invited Public Lecture, CAPSTANS,
Sydney, Australia, July 19, 2002.
Gender and Social Safety Nets: Unveiling Contradictory Consequences of Poverty Reduction Strategies, International
Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002.
Unveiling Contradictions: Gender and Islam Post September 11. Western Political Science Association Annual
Meetings, Transnational Feminisms, Long Beach, CA, March 2002
Panel Organizer and Discussant, State Formation in South Asia, at the South Asia 17
th
Annual Conference, Berkeley,
CA, February 2002
Memorializing the Emergence of Bangladesh: The Liberation War Museum, American Anthropology Association,
Annual Meetings, Washington D.C., November 2001
Discussant, Women, Islam, and Social Movements, Annual Meeting, South Asian Studies, Madison, Wisconsin, October
2001
Democracy and Citizenship: The Bengal Partition as a Social Project, American Sociological Association Annual
Meetings, Anaheim, CA, August 2001
Discussant, Women and Development with a focus on remittances and female employment, American Sociological
Association Annual Meetings, Anaheim, CA, August 2001
Constructing States and Citizens: Partition as a Social Project, The Braudel Center, Binghamton University, 24 April
2001
Intersecting and Contesting Positions: World Systems, Postcolonial, and Feminist Theory, XXIV Annual Conference of
the Political Economy of the World System, Boston College, 24-25 March 2000
Constructing States and Citizens: Partition as a Social Project, Paradigms in World History: Global Studies and World
History, A Conversation in the Discipline, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York 4-5 March 2000.
Roundtable Discussant, Past (Im)Perfect and Present Tense? Problematizing Patterns of Female Migration in and from
South Asia, Annual Meeting, Association of Asian Studies, San Diego, CA, March 2000
Constructing States and Citizens: Partition as a Social Project, The University of Pennsylvania, Department of South
Asia Regional Studies & The Center for the Advanced Study of India, Philadelphia, PA., November 1999
Cautions and Contradictions: Democracy, Governance and Civil Society. Public Lecture, Swarthmore College,
Swarthmore, PA. 4 November 1999
Governance and Gender Equity, Invited participant at the International Seminar: People and Poverty: Sustainable
Human Development into the Next Millennium, Mahbub ul Haq Commemorative Conference, IDRC, Ottawa,
Canada, 13-15 October 1999
Partition, Participation and Postcoloniality, Guest Seminar, Aarhus University, Denmark, May 1999
Feminist Interpretations of the Partition & Communal Violence, Naripoko, Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 1999
The Changing Role of the NGOs: A Twenty Year Retrospective, Special Seminar, North-South University, Dhaka,
Bangladesh 2 May 1999
Constructing States and Citizens: The Partition Period in East Bengal, Learned Lecture, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh,
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 24 April 1999
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Discussant, Overseas Work and Remittances: Bringing Home the Change(s), Annual Meeting, Association of Asian
Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, 11-14 March 1999
Democracy, Governance, and Civil Society in Bangladesh: Emergent Contradictions in NGO Practice, 27
th
Annual
Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, 15-18 October 1998
Provincial State Practices in the Building of Nationalist Sentiment: The 1952 Language Movement in East
Pakistan/Bangladesh, International Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada July 1998
Chair, Organizer and Paper Presenter for Panel entitled The 1947 Partition of India: Comparative Histories,
Comparative Interpretations, paper entitled Making Border, Constructing Pasts: Movements of Time and People,
International Conference of Asian Studies, The Netherlands 25-28 June 1998
Chair and Discussant, Democratization and Economic Reforms: Lessons from Asian Experience at the International
Conference of Asian Studies, The Netherlands 25-28 June 1998
The Bangladesh Perspective, Paper presented at the conference, The Indian Subcontinent: 50 Years After Freedom,
Corey Union, Cortland State University, April 1998
Discussant, Globalizing Labor, State and the Academy in South Asia, American Association of Asian Studies,
Washington, D.C. March 1998
Program Organizer, Chair and Presenter, Reconstructing Partition as Even or Social Process: The Case of Sunil Kumar
Daw v. the Government of East Pakistan, Rajendrapur, Bangladesh December 1997
Today’s Research Crisis in Bangladesh, Paper presented at the New York Conference on Asian Studies, Panel entitled,
Fifty Years of Political? Religious? Cultural? Independence, November 1997
Civil Society Lost, Individualism Recast: Rethinking State Society Relations in the Politics of Contemporary Bangladesh.
Pacific Sociology Association (PSA), San Diego, CA, April 1997
Keynote Address, Gender and Resistance in South Asia Series, South Asia Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, 19
March 1997
Rethinking and Retheorizing the Bengal Partition: Listening to the Silences, Conference on Memory and the Partition of
India, August 1947. University of Iowa, Saturday, 15 March 1997
Exploring the Assumption of Universality in Theories of Patriarchy: A Perspective from Contemporary Bangladesh.
Paper given at AAS Program 49th Annual Meeting, Sheraton, Chicago, IL, 15 March 1997
Informal Discussion, with Ritu Menon Academics and Activism, Partnership and Challenges. University of Iowa, The
Women's Studies Program and Women's Resource and Action Center, Friday, March 1997
Interests Undermined: Local Responses to Global Integration, Paper given at the 12
th
Annual South Asia Conference,
Booth Auditorium, Boalt School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, February 1997
Academic Associations and Offices Held
American Sociological Association
Political Economy of the World System
Section Chair, 2006-
Member, Nominations Committee, 1989-90
Council Member, 1992-95
Program Organizer, Annual Meetings 1993, 1996, 1999
Chair, Nominations Committee, 1994
Sociologists for Women in Society
Sex & Gender Graduate Award Committee, 1990
Rural Sociological Society
Endowment and Fellowship Committee, 1998-01
Membership Committee, 1987; 1993-94
Program Committee, 1988
Co-Chair, Rural Women in Economic Production, 1990-91
Endowment and Fellowship Committee, 1998-01
Association for Asian Studies
South Asia Council Member, 1994-97
Chair, South Asia Council, 1995-97
U.S. South Asia Rep for Intl. Committee for Asian Studies, Leiden, 1997-98
Bengal Studies Group, 1982-1990
Committee on South Asian Women, 1984-1990, 1993-1996
International Sociological Association
New York State Association for Asian Studies
Program Organizer, 1991
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Professional Appointments
American Institute of Bangladesh Studies
Vice-President, 2006-
Member, Executive Board, 1996-2006
Chair, Fellowship Committee
Social Science Research Council
Bangladesh Fellowship Committee, 1990-2002
Joint Committee for South Asia, 1994-96
International Planning Meeting, NYC, 1997
American Institute of Pakistan Studies
Member, Executive Board
Editorial Advisory Boards
REVIEW (2006- ), Rural Sociology (1994-98; 2002-2004), Journal of Social Studies (Dhaka University), South Asia
Bulletin (1982-92), Journal of Anthropology (Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka), The Women and International
Development Annual
Journal and Press Reviewer
American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Social Forces, Sociological Focus, Journal of Marriage and the Family,
Sociological Perspectives, Rural Sociology, Journal of Asian Studies, Critical Asian Studies, Contemporary South Asia,
SIGNS, Gender and Society, Rethinking Marxism, Journal of Family Issues, Feminist Studies, Agriculture and Human
Values, American Ethnologist, AMBIO, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Cornell University Press, Routledge,
Frank Cass, UK, UNRISD, ILO
Grant Reviewer
National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, The Center for Field Research, Association
Liaison Office, University Cooperation in Development, American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, American Institute
of Pakistan Studies, International Development Research Centre, IDRC, Canada, SSHRC, Canada
Community Service
Vice-President, Alternatives Federal Credit Union, 1989-90
City Representative on the Economic Advisory Board, Tompkins County,
Department of Planning, 1991-94
President, Alternatives Federal Credit Union, 1991-94