BENERÍA, Lourdes 1939-

PERSONAL: Surname is pronounced Ben-er-ee-a; born October 8, 1939, in Boi, Lerida, Spain; immigrated to the United States, 1964; naturalized U.S. citizen; daughter of Agusti and Josepa (Farré) Benería; children: Jordi, Marc. Education: University of Barcelona, licenciatura, 1961; attended College de France, 1961, London School of Economics and Political Science (London, England), 1961-62, and New York University, 1962-63; Columbia University, M.Ph., 1974, Ph.D., 1975.

ADDRESSES: Home—391 Teton Ct., Ithaca, NY 14850. Offıce—Department of City and Regional Planning, West Sibley Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; fax: 607-255-1971. E-mail—lbai@cornell. edu.

CAREER: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, profesora agregada de economía, 1972-73; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, assistant professor, 1975-81, associate professor of economics, 1981-86, executive officer of Institute for Research on Women, 1982-83, member of its executive committee, 1984-85, and acting director, 1985-86; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, professor of city and regional planning and women's studies, 1986—, director of Program on International Development and Women, 1988-93, director of Latin American Studies Program, 1993-96, director of Gender and Global Change Program, 1998—. Women and Development, cofounder, 1980, member, 1980—; New School for Social Research, visiting faculty member, 1981-83; Columbia University, member of Seminar on Women and Society, 1983-86, and Seminar on Culture and Society, 1984-86; guest lecturer at Dalhousie University and St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1988, 1989; visiting faculty member at Central University of Barcelona, 1990, Universidad Complutense, 1992, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, 1993, and Pompeu Fabra University, 1995-96; Radcliffe College, fellow of Public Policy Institute, 1997-99; guest lecturer at other colleges and universities in the United States and abroad; guest on radio and television programs in Mexico, Spain, Canada, and the United States. International Labor Office, coordinator of Program on Rural Women, World Employment Program, 1977-79, member of international advisory council, Global Programme on Socio-Economic Security, 1985, 1999—; Business and Professional Women's Foundation, member of Research and Information Committee, 1985-88; Women's Foreign Policy Council, director of women foreign policy specialists, 1985—; Hemisphere Initiatives, member of delegation to Nicaragua, 1990; National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, member of delegation to China, 1992; Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC, member of research advisory council, 1996—; United Nations Economic and Social Council, member of Committee for Development Policy, 2001-03; Women's Rights National Park, Seneca, NY, member of national advisory council, 2001; consultant to United Nations Development Program, World Bank, National Research Council, and other agencies.

MEMBER: International Association of Feminist Economics (member of board of directors, 1992-97; president, 2003), American Economic Association (member of board of directors, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, 1984-86), American Planning Association (International Division), Association of Women in Development, Development Association for Women in a New Era, Latin American Studies Association, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, United Nations Association of the U.S.A.

AWARDS, HONORS: Fulbright scholar in the United States, 1962-63; grants from International Labor Office, 1980, Ford Foundation, 1981 (for Mexico), 1988, 1989-90, 1997, Social Science Research Council, 1982, and Spanish Ministry of Education, 1990, 1991-94; senior grant from Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1983-84; grants from Spanish Ministry of Education, 1990, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas, 1991-94, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1994-96, 1997-98, and U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1995-96; fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, 1997-98; Cook Award, Cornell University, 2000, for work on behalf of women; Medalla Narcis Monturiol, Ministry of Culture of the Catalan Government (Spain), 2003.

WRITINGS:

(Translator from French) J. M. Albertini, Los angranajes de la economía nacional, Nova Terra (Barcelona, Spain), 1965.

(With J. Grigoll and others) Planificación y desarrollo, Nova Terra (Barcelona, Spain), 1965.

Mujer, economia, y patriarcado durante el España franquista, Editorial Anagrama (Barcelona, Spain), 1977.

(Editor) Women and Development: The Sexual Division of Labor in Rural Societies, Praeger (New York, NY), 1982.

Reproducción, producción, y división sexual del trabajo, CIPAF (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), 1984.

(With Celia Amorós, C. Delphy, and others) Mujeres: Ciencia y práctica politica, Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain), 1987.

(Editor, with Catherine Stimpson) Women, Households, and the Economy, Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ), 1987.

(With Martha Roldán) The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1987.

(Editor, with Shelley Feldman, and contributor) Unequal Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and Women's Work, Westview Press (Boulder, CO), 1992.

(Editor, with Mary Jo Dudley, and contributor) Economic Restructuring in Latin America: The 1990s, Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), 1996.

(Editor, with Savitri Bisnath, and contributor) Gender and Development: Theoretical, Empirical, and Practical Approaches, two volumes, Edward Elgar (Northampton, MA), 2001.

Development, Gender, and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered, Routledge (New York, NY), 2003.

Contributor to books, including Instability and Change in the International Economy, edited by Arthur MacEwan and William Tabb, Monthly Review Press, 1989; Toward Social Adjustment: Labor Market Issues in Structural Adjustment, edited by G. Standing and V. Tockman, International Labor Office (Geneva, Switzerland), 1991; Emergencies: Women's Struggles for Livelihood, edited by John Friedman, Latin American Studies Program, University of California—Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), 1996; Gender and Identity Construction: Women of Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Turkey, E. J. Brill (Long Island City, NY), 2000; and Feminist Economics Today: Beyond Economic Man, edited by M. Ferber and J. Nelson, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL). Contributor of articles and reviews to magazines and newspapers, including European Journal of Development Research, World Development, Economic Development Quarterly, and International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. Feminist Economics, member of editorial board, 1994—, associate editor, 2000-03; Review of Radical Political Economics, coordinator of editorial board, 1974-76; Women and International Development Annual, member of editorial board, 1989-92; and Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica, member of editorial board, 1995—.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Editing Global Tensions: Challenges and Opportunities in the Global Economy, with Savitri Bisnath, for Routledge (New York, NY); a cross-country comparative study of labor market "informalization," home-based work, and household finance, based on research from Bolivia, Ecuador, the Philippines, and Thailand, with Maria Floro.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Latin American Research Review, spring, 1998, Cornelia Butler Flora, review of Unequal Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and Women's Work, p. 245.

Population and Development Review, December, 2001, Susan Greenhalgh, review of Gender and Development: Theoretical, Empirical, and Practical Approaches, p. 810.

Reference and Research Book News, November, 2001, review of Gender and Development, p. 134.