Gender and Politics Flashcards
two ways to look at gender according to Karen Beckwith
gender as a category and gender as a process-
contributions of women to politics
- challenging conventional definitions of politics and extending boundaries of what is considered political
- de-generalizing the term women recognizing its complexity because of different types of women
gender as category-karen
male and female are sex categories that do not have any particular meaning or practice so they have no influence in political practice
gender as process- Karen
differential effects of policies on men and women, ad the means by which masculine and feminine actors work to create favorable outcomes for themselves .
gender as identity formation - mary h.
adopted by feminists to distinguish cultural characteristics associated with males and females from the biological features associated with sex. Use it analyze the relationship between persons and social organizations and between men and women
gender as analytical category - mary
gender is used to decode meaning and understand various forms of complex human interactions
theory of gendered institutions
politics has created race and gendered divisions that have ultimately defined race and gender
gender power
asymmetrical relations between men and women that infiltrates every aspect of society and they way it works
voluntarist power
John Locke; power is the result of voluntary intentions and strategies of individuals who seek to promote their interests. Power usually can lead to coercion
hermeneutic power
focuses on symbolic and normative constructs that make the use of power possible
structuralist power
practices of inequality become embedded into society and its institutions in ways that give men the advantage to operate separate from the will of particular agents
poststructuralist power
every scientific discourse is productive and generates power knowledge that create a world in its own image
“one is not born, but rather becomes a woman”
Simone De Beauvoir
sex vs gender
sex- biological status
gender- characteristics that are given by a culture to a particular sex
patriarchy
male dominance through systematic operation of women
