POLS 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gynocentrism, School, Nuclear Family

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2110
• Professor: Cheryl Collier

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Feminist debates: vickers" women-centred politics, equity/equality definition, need for feminist politics. Practice of putting a masculine point of view at the centre of norms. Is personal ( and situational/dimensional: how you are raised, your race, ethnicity, sexuality, and any ways you could be diverse, cataldi (1995) If you see women you are feminist: are you looking, are you asking, are you wondering then you are a feminist. There are many informal rule, informal rules are harder to change than informal rule. It is a long standing rule: vicker suggest that when we think of feminist and women centric perspective. They were not there when we signed the constitution, they did not sign the declaration of independence: from " the bottom up and the outside in, women politics is a peripheral of common politics. Change is difficult and some changes are not better. In 4 ways: focuses where women are absent, study politics inside states and between states.