POLI 260 Lecture Notes - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Betty Friedan
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Understand how feminists describe global politics, and why. Describe ways in which global politics is gendered . Explain the impact and relevance of feminist and gendered concepts in global politics. First wave (legal status of women: mary woolstonecroft, elizabeth cady stanton, susan b. anthony. Second wave (equality of condition: betty friedan, cynthia enloe. Third wave (identities, post-colonial: rebecca walker, gayatri spivak, angela davis, chandra mohanty, carol adams. Focus on gender: gender matters: what has been traditionally thought of as universal in global politics is in fact gendered, and primarily masculine. Inequality of women: women have been marginalized in political and economic affairs, patriarchy (male domination of society) is the problem. Marginalization of women in ir: masculine interpretations of politics and economics dominate theory and policy, the male experience is taken as the norm. Differences in female experience: women"s lived experiences are different, whether this is due to biology or socialization. Social relations are gendered: gender is not a separate category.
