ATS1365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Masculinity, Utopia
8 May 2018
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INTRO TO SOCIOLOGY: LECTURE 10
MODULE 2: GENDER & SOCIETY: LECTURE 4
Gender & Power
Module Overview
Week 10: in this week, we examine how gendered roles, and binaries, shape key institutions
of power including Parliaments and Governments. We examine the difference between
legal equality and social and structural equality as part of this process.
Gender Stories in Politics
Two Sex Issue
• Women globally still not fully enfranchised
• Ratios of women in parliaments = low
• Ratios of women in leadership = lower
Gender Issue
• Politis as afae o oat
• Theefoe is es usiess
• An extension of patriarchal and paternalistic control
• Failure to capture/embed diversity
Lecture Plan
• Global Suffrage
• Australia Today
• Gendered Politics
Global Suffrage
Aguets fo Woes Suffage
• Women should participate in making the laws that govern them
• Only voting rights allow women to change discriminatory laws (property, divorce,
custody, pay etc)
• Often argued, women bring the maternal perspective
• Able to draw on experience as mothers to offer something good
Aguets agaist Woes Suffage
• Intellectual grounds
• ais ot ig eough
• Not clever enough
• Military duty
• Woe didt hae to patiipate i the as of the atio ad theefoe
didt desee eual ights
• Paying taxes
• Woe eet paig taes eause the didt ake eough oe to
pay taxes, so that means only taxpayers should vote
• Unnecessary; already influential
• Unfeminine
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• They would become unfeminine, and too masculine if allowed to vote
• Dereliction of real duty
• Would focus too much on the vote rather than their duties around the house
to serve their husbands and children
Global Suffrage
• 1893 New Zealand
• 1902 Australia
• 1906 Finland
• 1913 Norway
• 1915 Denmark
• 1917 Canada
• 1918 Austria, Germany, Poland, Russia
• 1919 Netherlands
• 1920 United States
• 1921 Sweden
• 1929 Britain, Ireland
• 1930 South Africa
• 1931 Spain
• 1934 Turkey
• 1944 France
• 1945 Italy
• 1947 Argentina, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan
• 1949 China
• 1950 India
• 1954 Colombia
• 1967 Malaysia, Zimbabwe
• 1962 Algeria
• 1963 Iran, Morocco
• 1964 Libya
• 1967 Ecuador
• 1971 Switzerland
• 1972 Bangladesh
• 1974 Jordan
• 1976 Portugal
• 1989 Namibia
• 1990 Western Samoa
• 1993 Kazakhstan, Moldova
• 2005 Kuwait
• 2006 United Arab Emirates
• 2011 Saudi Arabia
Suffrage in Australia
• Austalia as the seod i the old afte Ne )ealad i oes suffage
• British women gained full suffrage in 1928; USA in 1920
Suffrage Granted but Indigenous Women & Men remained without Vote until 1967
• SA 1894 vote & right to stand
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• WA 1899 vote & 1920 right to stand
• NSW 1902 vote & 1918 right to stand
• TAS 1903 vote & 1921 right to stand
• QLD 1905 vote & 1918 right to stand
• VIC 1908 vote & 1923 right to stand
• Federal 1902 vote & right to stand
• Thik Piee: utopia gils: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAJvMBrxIXs
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When Women Enter: Suffragettes in the Media
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• Women who wanted power
• Level of brutality and violence that was exercised in early suffragette battles, eg.
force fed in jail
Australia Today
The Structure Today
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Document Summary
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