Course Name | Gender Politics |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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PSIR 560 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 |
Prerequisites | None | |||||
Course Language | English | |||||
Course Type | Elective | |||||
Course Level | Second Cycle | |||||
Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | This course aims to introduce students to gender related issues in political science. Issues such as inequality, patriarchy, representation in political life will be discussed in different contexts. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | Issues such as representation, political participation, women’s, men’s and LGBT organizations, development, and economic distribution will be addressed from a gendered point of view. A comparison of different countries will also be made to give students insight into the developed vs developing world when it comes to gender. |
Related Sustainable Development Goals |
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Major Area Courses | X | |
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Transferable Skill Courses |
Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Introduction | |
2 | Conceptual Framework | Lorber, Part I, Producing Gender, Chapters 1 & 4 |
3 | Gender in Every Day Life | Lorber Part II, Gender in Practice, Chapters 6 & 9 |
4 | Gender Politics | Lorber Part III, The Politics of Gender, Chapters 10 & 11 |
5 | Gender and Global Governance | Meyer and Prugl, Chapter 1 Gender Politics and Global Governance |
6 | Gender and the State | Gender and the State – R.W. Connell, Citizenship and Gender – Ruth Lister |
7 | Feminist Movement I | Meyer and Prugl, Chapter 6 Nongovernmental Organizations: An Alternative Power Base for Women? (Irene Tinker), Meyer and Prugl, Chapter 17 Of Roots, Leaves, and Trees: Gender, Social Movements, and Global Governance (Deborah Stienstra) |
8 | Feminist Movement II | Meyer and Prugl, Chapter 8 International Women’s Activism and the 1994 Cairo Population Conference (Amy J. Higer), Meyer and Prugl, Chapter 11 The United Nations Women’s Conferences and Feminist Politics (Lois A. West) |
9 | Midterm | |
10 | Women’s Rights as Human Rights | Meyer and Prugl, Chapter 9 Shaping the Human Rights Agenda: The Case of Violence Against Women (Jutta Joachim), Meyer and Prugl, Chapter 10 Realizing Women’s Human Rights: Nongovernmental Organizations and the United Nations Treaty Bodies (Alice M. Miler) |
11 | Gender and Economy | Meyer and Prugl, Chapter 12 What Is a Worker? Gender, Global Restructuring, and the ILO Convention on Homework (Elisabeth Prugl), Meyer and Prugl, Chapter 13 Women in the Neoliberal “Frame” (Anne Sisson Runyan) |
12 | Gender and Islam | Moghadam, Chapter 3 Modernizing Women, Reforms, Revolutions, and the Woman Question Zurayk and Saadeh, Women as Mobilizers of Human Resources in Arab Countries Mernissi, Muslim Women and Fundamentalism |
13 | Gender in Turkey | Marshall, Ideology, Progress and Dialogue: A Comparison of Feminist and Islamist Women’s Approaches to the Issue of Head Covering and Work in Turkey, Kagitcibasi, Status of Women in Turkey: A CrossCultural Perspective |
14 | The Feminist Movement in Popular Culture | Brunsdon, Charlotte, “The Feminist in the Kitchen: Martha, Martha and Nigella”, Hermes, Joke, “’Ally McBeal’, ‘Sex and the City’ and the Tragic Success of Feminism |
15 | Conclusion & Review | Lorber, Part I, Producing Gender, Chapters 1 & 4 |
16 | Review of the Semester |
Course Notes/Textbooks | • Meyer, Mary K., and Elisabeth Prugl, Gender Politics in Global Governance, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. • Lorber, Judith, Paradoxes of Gender, Yale University Press, 1994. • Rubery, Jill, Mark Smith and Colette Fagan, Women’s Employment in Europe: Trends and Prospects, Routledge, 1999. • Moghadam, Valentine M. , Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East, Rienner, 1993. • Zurayk, Huda C., and Fadia Saadeh, “Women as Mobilizers of Human Resources in Arab Countries”, in Khoury, Nabil F., and Valentine M. Moghadam, Gender and Development in the Arab World, Zed Books, 1995. • Hollows, Joanne and Rachel Moseley, Feminism in Popular Culture, Berg 2007. • Tickner, J. Ann, Gendering World Politics, Columbia, 2001. • Mernissi, Fatima, “Muslim Women and Fundamentalism”, Middle East Report, n153, 1988, 811. • Marshall, Gul Aldikacti, “Ideology, Progress and Dialogue: A Comparison of Feminist and Islamist Women’s Approaches to the Issue of Head Covering and Work in Turkey”, Gender and Society, v19 n1, 2005, 104120. • Kagitcibasi, Cigdem, “Status of Women in Turkey: A CrossCultural Perspective”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, v18 n4, 1986, 485499. • Enloe, Cynthia, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, University of California Press, 2000. • Yuval -Davis, Nira, Gender and Nation, Sage Publications, 1997. All course readings are available at the University Library and as open sources. |
Suggested Readings/Materials | Further readings will be assigned as necessary during the course |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | 1 | 10 |
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | ||
Presentation / Jury | ||
Project | 1 | 15 |
Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | 1 | 35 |
Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 3 | 60 |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
Study Hours Out of Class | 13 | 7 | 91 |
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | |||
Presentation / Jury | |||
Project | 1 | 30 | |
Seminar / Workshop | |||
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | 1 | 25 | |
Final Exams | 1 | 31 | |
Total | 225 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To improve theoretical and conceptual proficiencies on Political Science and International Relations and to ultimately deepen and develop intellectual interest | X | ||||
2 | To evaluate the relationships between factors in the field of Political Science and International Relations such as structures, actors, institutions and culture in a critical perspective | X | ||||
3 | To provide advanced competences to determine and question the theoretical and emprical gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature | X | ||||
4 | To identify the political and cultual conditions that generate discrimination mechanisms based on race, ethnic groups, gender and religion at national and international levels | X | ||||
5 | To provide competences to develop original arguments in order to fill the gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature | X | ||||
6 | To determine, collect, resolve, and interpret the data that would measure the theories and concepts as variables by using scientific research methods in Political Science and International Relations field | X | ||||
7 | To use confidently the terms and concepts of Political Science and International Relations | X | ||||
8 | To communicate systematically, in written, oral, and visual forms, contemporary developments in Political Science and International Relations to groups inside and outside the said discipline | X | ||||
9 | To take responsibility in an individual capacity and as part of a team in generating solutions to unexpected problems that arise in relation to politics in daily life | X | ||||
10 | To develop projects determining the institutional and political instruments for management of domestic and international conflicts | X | ||||
11 | To prepare an orginal thesis/term project about Political Science and International Relations in accordance with scentific criteria | X | ||||
12 | To design and carry out a scientific research project in the field of Political Science and International Relations | X | ||||
13 | To have ethical, social and scientific values in the stages throughout the processes of collecting, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data relevant to Political Science and International Relations | X |
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest