WMST2027 Feminist Political Theory

Professor Barbara Baird

2021

4.5

1 x 2-hour seminar weekly

1 of POLI2023, POLI2027, WMST7021 has been successfully completed

Knowledge such as can be obtained from a first year undergraduate level Women's Studies topic or other first year undergraduate level topics from the humanities or social sciences area.

This topic provides an introduction to feminist political thought. It will consider some of the principal questions raised by contemporary feminist political theory from around the globe and its efforts to construct alternate ways of understanding politics. Some of the issues covered by this topic are: democracy, citizenship, patriarchy, social movements, feminist commons, prison abolition and subaltern struggles.

To be advised

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:

Critically evaluate the main tenets of feminist political theory in the light of both historical and contemporary social constructions of gender relations
To research gender issues related to politics and policy making, present findings both verbally and in written form, in accordance with good scholarly practice
Identify and demonstrate ways in which women are disempowered and empowered in culturally specific social, economic and political circumstances
Undertake an independent research paper on a substantive issue, encompassed within this topic, pursuant to the specific specialist interest of the student

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