READING 1: Frazer

Question 1

How does Conventional Political Theory define politics?

Answer 1

Politics is the process of governing through institutions, and arrangements, with, reference to those being governed

Question 2

List examples of State institutions:

Answer 2

Legislature, executive, judiciary

Question 3

List examples of Subsidiary agencies

Answer 3

Welfare, Beuarcracies and courts

Question 4

What is the focus of politics? What is starkly separated

Answer 4

The public sector is the primary concern of politics, while the private or domestic sector is separated.

Question 5

Why is conventional political theories’ public focus flawed?

Answer 5

The public sphere emphasizes masculine business in politics and overlooks the domestic sphere of the family, creating a gendered definition.

Question 6

Is the Gendering of politics systemic or incidental?

Answer 6

Incidental

Question 7

What does social contract theory assume?

Answer 7

That actors are public, independent and rational

Question 8

What does social contract theory neglect?

Answer 8

Exclude women, states they are dependent emotionally and domestic

Question 9

What do models like the social contract theory tend to ignore? What does this stray away from?

Answer 9

morally-binding ones such as motherhood

Strays away from alleged neutrality.

Question 10

What has led to the slogans “the second wave? and “The personal is politics

Answer 10

Dualistic gendering of politics

Question 11

What Disputes exist within Feminism?

Answer 11

whether to reclaim/evaluate the feminine and reject the masculine or to reconstruct political ideals in non-gendered ways

Question 11

What has the relationship between public and Private looked like in Western society?

Answer 11

One of superiority and value vs inferiority and disvalue