Women and Politics

This module is designed to help students:

1) acquire an introductory knowledge of the conceptual building blocks of feminist theory and politics, as well as identify the main contributions of various strands of feminist scholarship to mainstream understandings of politics.
2) develop gender analytical skills that help students apply feminist theoretical arguments to empirical research.
3) gain a historically informed understanding of the different ways in which gender, as a major organizing principle of human societies, matters in shaping political, economic, social, as well individual/psychological processes and outcomes.