Women's Studies 1022F/G Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Occidentalism, Essentialism, Intersectionality

• 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. International relations discusses the relationships between nations/ countries, observed from a feminist perspective. To understand the nuance and complexity of power relationships. Understanding something from a nuance perspective is not the same as vague perspective. Gender is always raced, classed, sexualized and nationalized, just as race, class, sexuality and nationality are always gendered. We are not just a gender, but belong to many classifications of identity. To appreciate how the power of gender operates pervasively to produce and sustain unequal power relations. How different moving parts move together to either perpetuate inequalities, or bring about justice. To understand how we are (often unwillingly and unknowingly) complicit in the makings of global inequalities and injustices. We are complicit in the world we have created. The personal is political and the personal is also international/global. All the personal choices we make are driving trends, which form politics.