Political Science 1020E Chapter Notes -Gender Mainstreaming, Multi-Level Governance, Discourse Analysis

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Difficult relationship between feminist approaches and political science. Second wave focused mainly on movements from civil society. Feminist state theory resulted in deep uneasiness among feminist scholars. Liberal feminist represented the in the state position critics of liberal feminism argued that they risked co-optation to the state"s patriarchal structures. Radical feminists represented the out of the state position steered away from the state, develop an extra-statist form of politics. Feminisms main contribution has been to expose the gendered and patriarchal character of state institutions, practices and policies. Advantage and disadvantage of exploitation and control, meaning and identity are patterned through a distinction between male and female, masculine and feminine. Some scholars question the utility of strategies of state reform for feminists and women"s movement activists. On the other hand feminists are increasingly engaging the state, both theoretically and in practice.

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