POLS 2110 Lecture 1: Lecture1
19 Jan 2016
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Why study women and politics: to fill in huge gaps in human knowledge (newman and white :3, to make women visible (ex. Of why its important for women to be involved in politics goods and services tax tampons) Puts women"s lives and lived experiences into the policy realm: exposes androcentricity (european male as norm) Feminist scholarship can transform what we consider politics and the political. Make women visible need to study politics from a women-centred perspective : not adding women in and stirring . Politics was seen as universal : gender, alongside race, disability and sexual orientation was irrelevant to the study of politics and government. I am not a feminist, but : most canadians avoid identifying with the label, compas survey (1998) Defining feminism is personal: cataldi (1995) suggests feminism is: discrimination based on sex. , can also suggest it involves seeing women, a movement to end sexism to end violence, oppression, exploitation, or unfair.
