Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Amartya Sen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lysistrata

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 1020E
• Professor: Bruce Morrison

Document Summary

Feminism: eliminating the subordination of women, against patriarchy or rule by men, sex and gender: biology distinguished from culture. Sexual inequality in history: aristopha(cid:374)es(cid:859) lysistrata (cid:894)411 bc(cid:895): asserti(cid:374)g (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s po(cid:449)er. She made woman swear to not have sex with their husbands until they stopped fighting in the war which worked! Showed woman did in fact have power of men: wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s ights co(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374), se(cid:374)e(cid:272)a falls, nyc, 1848. Denial of civil, political, and economic rights. To university education, to vote, to earn a living. Continuing injustice (amartya sen: 100 million women are missing. If there were equality, there would be 100 million more women. Girls and women have a higher mortality rate. Denial of necessary nutrition and health care. Not given an equal chance at birth. Figure 1: amartya sen: of 100 million women missing, 40 million women missing in china + 36 million women missing in india, more boys born in canada than girls, but girls are technically stronger.