Women's Studies 1022F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Global Governance, Heteronormativity, Occidentalism

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1022F/G
• Professor: Bipasha Baruah

Document Summary

To appreciate the difference between international relations and feminist international relations. To understand the nuance and complexity of power relationships. Gender is always raced, classed, sexualized and nationalized, just as race, class, sexuality and nationality are always gendered. To appreciate how the power of gender operates pervasively to produce and sustain unequal power relations. To understand how we are (often unwillingly and unknowingly) complicit in the makings of global inequalities and injustices. (cid:862)the pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)al is politi(cid:272)al(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)the pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)al is also i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)atio(cid:374)al/glo(cid:271)al. (cid:863) Clarification of terms: gender/sex sex is biological and gender is depending on the societal expectation. Intersectionality gender is class and the different dimensions act in a way to give or take power always (ex. Not about pin pointing men that are the problem but the structures that support man and the certain type of man. Eurocentrism (or occidentalism)/ orientalism the assumption how everything does something.