POLI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Marxism, Postcolonial Feminism, Liberal Feminism
2 Nov 2015
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Appeared between 80 et 90"s from a wider and intellectual mvt. Vital new term language of ir > gender. Added women > previoulsy invisible in international affairs. Postcolonial feminists> experience of non western women marginalized by western countries. > seek to answer through analysis of construction of category + daily consequences practice and theory of ir. Ex gender definition: a set of socially constructed caracteristics describing what men and women ought to be see p. 206. Patriarchal system = men at the expense of women > in practice and fundamentally > shapes our mode of seeing for what is important in ir. 1)decentring biological explanations=definition of masculanity and feminity subject to change > not one way of being men/women > conceptions not fixed over time > not given. 2)the interdependence of key words= interrelationship masculine and feminine term > characterisits associated> to understand one we need the other.
