Course Contents
I. Gender Politics and the Nation-State
1. Gender and Power
2. Bargaining with Patriarchy
3. Public/Private debate
4. Nationalism and man/womanhood
5. Gender and the Welfare State
II. Civil Society, Women’s Groups and Political Resistance
1. Women Activism in Asia: NGOs and women’s groups
2. Transnational activism and global networking
3. Women’s role in global politics
III : The Politics of Sex, Violence and Exploitation
1. Rape as Nation Building
2. Pornography as Trafficking
3. Bodies for Sale
4. Gendering laws
5. Women Peace &Security CEDAW and Security Council Resolution 1325
IV. The Politics of Culture and Tradition
1. The Politics of Identity
2. Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
3. Debates: Surogacy, Abortion
V. Human Rights and Conventions
1. Meaning and importance
2. Are Women Human?
3. International Human Rights Conventions
4. Feminist Critique on Human Rights
Course Synopsis
This course provides an understanding of how gender and power are linked. It makes students develop an understanding of the role of civil society, women’s groups and political resistance. Different issues related to politics of sex, violence and exploitation will also be discussed. Various aspects of politics of culture and tradition will be highlighted, and the importance of Human Rights and Conventions will be covered. Finally, during the course students will be asked to keep current with worldwide news related to gender and politics. As particular news story or commentaries about women in the world become relevant for the topic of discussion of a given week. Additional space for this kind of discussions will be available. The objectives are to discuss the gendered nature of politics, contextualize and question patterns of male domination (Patriarchal Bargain). To understand the way gender, race, and class (multiculturalism) work together to structure the civil and human rights. Understanding of issues related to gender-based violence, from within a human rights framework. Interrogate feminist debates that expand political argument to issues related to surrogacy and abortion.
Course Learning Outcomes
1.Students will be able to do gender power analysis, and understand the forms of power.
2.Students will be able to understand public private discourse.
3.Students will be able to understand basic concept and historical background of civil society.
4.Better understanding will be developed regarding human rights and conventions.
Gender and Politics
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Gender and power, identity and history
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Public and Private Sphere- Gender inequality
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Welfare State
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Role of NGOs in Protecting Human Rights – An Overview
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Decolonizing Gender
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Role of NGOs in Protecting Human Rights – An Overview (Women Activism in Asia: NGOs and women’s groups)
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Asia Pacific Women’s Watch (APWW)
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Women in Politics
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Transnational political activism. A movement of citizens - Eumans2020 [EN]
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The Role of Women in Political Leadership and the Violence That Hinders Progress
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Women’s Political Participation: Leadership and the Global Agenda
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Rape, a gender-neutral crime in Pakistan (Rape as Nation Building)
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Women, Peace and Security and UNSCR ppt (Women Peace &Security CEDAW and Security Council Resolution 1325)
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Trafficking, Prostitution and Inequality: A Public Lecture by Catharine MacKinnon
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Gender and Law (Gendering laws)
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UN Resolution 1325 (5. Women Peace &Security CEDAW and Security Council Resolution 1325)
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IDENTITY POLITICS Meaning (The Politics of Identity)
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Conventions and Declarations | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (International Human Rights Conventions)
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Human Rights by Ahmer Bilal Soofi (Meaning and importance of Human Rights and Convention)
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From the Vault: Hillary Clinton Declares "Women's Rights are Human" (Are Women Humans?)
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Book Title : Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues Catharine A. MacKinnon
Author : Catharine A. MacKinnon
Edition : 2006
Publisher : The Belknap press of Harvard University press
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Book Title : Bodies for Sale: Ethics and Exploitation in the Human Body Trade
Author : Stephen Wikinson
Edition : 2003
Publisher : Routledge
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Book Title : Feminism and Politics
Author : Anne Phillips
Edition : 1998
Publisher : Oxford University Press
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Title : Bargaining with Patriarchy
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Title : Gender and Nationalism
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Title : Feminism and public private debate
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Title : Gender & Politics- A gendered world a gendered discipline (Gendering Law)
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Title : Gender and welfare state change
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Title : Gendering Welfare State Analysis: Tension between care and Paid Work
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Title : Gender in welfare state
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Title : Public/ Private Debate
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Title : Gender and Nationalism
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Title : Discuss, How Gender and Power are Intrinsically Linked?
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Title : Women's and Feminist Activism in Southeast Asia pg 22-26
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Title : Transnational activism and global social change. pg 19-22
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Title : Transnational Activism and World Politics
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Title : The Importance of Women in International Relations Theory and World Politics
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Title : Rape as Nationbuilding, MacKinnon p. 169-173
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Title : Pornography as Trafficking, MacKinnon p. 247-258
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Title : Pornography as Trafficking, Article by Catharine A. MacKinnon
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Title : Bodies for Sale Book Review
Type : Other
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Title : Bodies for Sale by Wilkinson__part 1
Type : Assignment
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Title : Anne Phillips-Why Should it Matter Who Our Representatives Are feminism and politics (The Politics of Identity)
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Title : Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? by SUSAN MOLLER OKIN
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Title : Lecture on What is Multiculturalism ppt
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Title : lecture on Surrogacy form Feminist perspectives ppt
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Title : Reflections on Feminist Views of Abortion and Motherhood (Debate on Abortion)
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Title : Women Rights Are HR (Are Women Human?)
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Title : Woman As Personhood Rights and The Case of Domestic Violence (Are Women Human?)
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Title : Feminist_Critique_on_International_Human (Feminist Critique on Human Rights)
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Title : Human Rights A Feminist Perspective (Feminist Critique on Human Rights)
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Title : International human rights and conventions
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