Women and Work in the Gulf

What does it mean to study and evaluate women’s work in the Gulf? What counts as 'work' and whose work is invisible in debates about female employment? How do nationalization programs impact women; both citizens and non-citizens?Women and Work in the Gulf critically examines how women feature in contemporary debates about employment, development, and nationalism in the context of the Gulf Cooperative Council countries. Using an interdisciplinary lens (drawing mainly on social psychology, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies), the course explores scholarship on women and work produced by different knowledge regimes both within and outside the Gulf region.