POLS 280 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intersectionality

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 280
• Professor: Elizabeth Goodyear- Grant

Document Summary

Identify and explain significance of term: formal representation: The earliest and most basic form of equal representation is formal representation meaning that women should have the legal right to participate in politics on an equal basis as men. It requires all barriers to women"s participation in politics must be removed. Discrimination against women in the political arena must be eradicated, men and women must be equal under the law and women should have the same opportunity as men to participate in politics. This is significant to the study of gender and politics because the fight for formal representation was a long difficult one. While the idea that women should be formally allowed to participate in politics has become nearly universal over the last 100 years, the struggle still continues in some parts of the world. The next step of representation after formal representation. Feminist political theorists argued that a different conception of equal representation was needed.