| Kurzkommentar |
In this seminar we will review key concepts of state theory and the relationship between citizens and the sate through a gender focus. The seminar is divided into four sessions. In the first session, students will review classic concepts of citizenship based on patriarchal theories of the social contract in order to build a basis for understanding the feminist and queer contestation of disembodied concepts of political experience and participation. In the second session, we will deal with the classic criticism of the second wave of feminism to universalism in politics, encompassing the public/private divide, care work, and the language of rights. In the third session, students will be introduced to debates about structural injustice and main theories of the cultural turn, which explain that the gender gap goes beyond formal and legal arrangements in representative democracy as well as classic dichotomies such as material/symbolic and male/female. In the fourth session, students will discuss the intersectionality of gender with other axes of differentiation such as sexuality, class, race, religion in access to public policies. This session encompasses texts on identity politics, politics of difference and current anti-gender campaigns in politics. By those means at the end of this seminar students will be acquainted with the main concepts, theories and debates of gender in politics from the 1960s to nowadays and will be able to apply a gender perspective to the study of comparative politics.
Literature
Thomas Hobbes de Cive: Vom Bürger 1. Kapitel “Vom Zustand des Menschen außerhalb der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft” 9. Kapitel “Von den Recht der Eltern gegen ihre Kinder und von der patrimonialen Herrschaft”
Pateman, C. (1988). The Sexual Contract. Polity Press. Chapters 1&2
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Rudolph, Clarissa. (2015). Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Politik. Eine genderorientierte Einführung in Grundfragen der Politikwissenschaft. Opladen/Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich
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Young, Iris Marion. 1993. Das politische Gemeinwesen und die Gruppendifferenz. Eine Kritik am Ideal des universalen Staatsbürgerstatus. In Jenseits der Geschlechtermoral. Beiträge zur feministischen Ethik, Hrsg. Herta Nagl-Docekal und Herlinde Pauer-Studer, 267–304. Frankfurt a. M.: Fischer
Crenshaw, K. (1990). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stan. L. Rev., 43, 1241. |
