POLS 250 Lecture 4: "The Personal is Political"

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 250
• Professor: Colin Farrelly

Document Summary

Pols 250 week 4 lecture 4 (cid:862)the perso(cid:374)al is politi(cid:272)al(cid:863) Challenges the private/public dichotomy of liberal political theory: family is important that is political in important ways, but we ned to remove the family from the public/private distinction. Susan oken: 4 ways in which the personal is political: power: a distinguishing feature of the political, can exist within the family. Subleter: who has most decision making in the house: the domestic sphere itself is the result of political decisions. Marriage an institution: domestic life is where most of our early socialization takes place. Identities of (cid:862)(cid:373)ale(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)fe(cid:373)ale(cid:863) are i(cid:374)stilled i(cid:374) children at a young age: the division of labour within most families raises psychological as well as practical barriers against women in all other spheres. Anne philips wrote the politics of the presence about the politics of difference. Liberal feminists-emphasize the similarities between men and women. Discriminatory to not treat men and woman the sa(cid:373)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)siste(cid:374)t treatment.