POL 009 - Gender and Politics

This course offers a survey of contemporary scholarship on the involvement of women in formal and informal politics from a global perspective. It addresses women's political activities, the demands made on the political system by women, and the political impact of women's movements in different contexts. 

This module focuses on developments and issues within individual countries through comparative case studies within the larger field of gender and politics.

1. ‘Gender’ in McKinnon, C. (Ed.) (2012). Issues in political theory. Oxford University Press.
2. Susan Moller Okin, “Gender, the Public, and the Private”, in Political Theory Today, edited by D. Held (Standford, CA: Standford University Press, 1991), pp. 67-90
3. Runyan and Peterson. “Chapter 2” in Global gender issues in the new millennium. Routledge.

1. Bunch, Charlotte. 1990. “Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly 12(4):486–98.
2. Charlesworth, Hilary. 1994. “What Are Women’s International Human Rights?” In Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives, edited by Rebecca J. Cook, 58–84. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
3. Binion, Gayle. 1995. “Human Rights: A Feminist Perspective.” Human Rights Quarterly 17(3): 509–26.
4. Ackerly, B. (2016). ‘Feminist and activist approaches to human rights’ in M. E. Goodhart (Ed.) Human rights: Politics and practice. Oxford university press, 28-43.

The mid-term and final exam will be two-hour written examinations. Candidates will be required to answer two questions, chosen from a list of four.

Devam ve katılım gereklidir. Her dersin başında bir yoklama kaydı alınacaktır. İki gecikme, bir devamsızlık olarak sayılacaktır. Dizüstü bilgisayarlar yalnızca ders notları almak için kullanılabilir. Ders başlamadan önce tüm cep telefonları tamamen kapatılmalıdır. Öğrenciler haftalık okuma ödevini tartışmak için sınıfa hazırlıklı gelmelidir.