POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Zipper, Condom, Gender Analysis

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 227
• Professor: Rex Brynen

Document Summary

Part of the reason gende(cid:396) ine(cid:395)uality doesn"t act as a dividing line in political views is because of deeply rooted attitudes to gender roles. Need to separate into subcategories (age, education) to find useful info about attitudes not just by country. Practical interests: improving daily rights of women. Strategic/practical to always pull in the same direction (improving. Immediate lives of women may validate that women should be confined to current sphere)!!! Informal: patron-client, less visible politics (in some cases, women often play a large role in this sector; e. g. arranged marriages arranged by the mother) In 1970s development agencies and others began to recognize the importance of incorporating gender into planning: women in development (wid, women and development (wad, gender and development (gad, gender mainstreaming. Now, gender analysis should be core to thinking. Agricultural development (e. g. african food systems; women are key to subsistence food production) Rule of law/legal system reforms: chg.