CANS 406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, Gender Mainstreaming, Gender Analysis
22 May 2018
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Feminisms: An Introduction
We Should All be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
-Suggests we should all be angry – “gender as it functions today is a grave injustice”
-We need to raise our sons and daughters differently
-Feminism as a western ideology, talks about the tension between her Nigerian culture and
feminism
-Focused on her own experiences of feminism
-Gender is a concept that has gained significant currency in IR and international organizations
(Whitman)
-Gender mainstreaming = instead of dismissing gender and the role of women in IR,
organizations are committing to focusing on systematic integration of gender analysis in all
aspects of their work
-UN Security Council Resolution 1325, calling to devote more attention to the roles of
women in peacekeeping, to include them around the table
-Whitworth argues that what these organizations have in mind when it comes to gender is
different than what feminist consider gender
-They talk about gender in a depoliticized way
-Efforts of gender mainstream justify or accommodate existing policies rather than
transform them, mapping gender onto practices rather than changing the practice
-Term feminism first appeared in France in the 1880s, popularized in Great Britain in the 1890s,
then US in 1910
-Idea itself is much older
-Jagger: “As long as women have been subordinated, they have resisted that subordination”
-Tendency to refer to 3-4 waves of feminism
-First wave: civil rights, right to vote, 1700s-1960s
-Second wave: 1960s-1980s, push to have equal rights in law and policy, focus on issues
of sexuality/reproductive rights
-Third wave: 1990s-present, focus on diversity among women, pro-sex, focus on every
day action rather than just theory in defining feminists
-Some consider that we are currently in a fourth wave of feminism
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Document Summary
We should all be feminists chimamanda ngozi adichie. Suggests we should all be angry gender as it functions today is a grave injustice . We need to raise our sons and daughters differently. Feminism as a western ideology, talks about the tension between her nigerian culture and feminism. Gender is a concept that has gained significant currency in ir and international organizations (whitman) Gender mainstreaming = instead of dismissing gender and the role of women in ir, organizations are committing to focusing on systematic integration of gender analysis in all aspects of their work. Un security council resolution 1325, calling to devote more attention to the roles of women in peacekeeping, to include them around the table. Whitworth argues that what these organizations have in mind when it comes to gender is different than what feminist consider gender. They talk about gender in a depoliticized way.
