Women's Studies 1022F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: International Monetary Fund, Gro Harlem Brundtland, World Trade Organization

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1022F/G
• Professor: Bipasha Baruah

Document Summary

Lecture 1: gender makes the world go round. To appreciate the difference between international relations and feminist international relations. To understand the nuance and complexity of power relationships. Gender is always raced, classed, sexualized and nationalized, just as race, class, sexuality and nationality are always gendered. To appreciate how the power of gender operates pervasively to produce and sustain unequal power relations. To understand how we are (often unwillingly and unknowingly) complicit in the makings of global inequalities and injustices. The personal is political and the personal is also international/global. Intersectionality: we are compositions of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, disability, class, education etc. Gendered: a less cumbersome shorthand signaling intersectionality without listing specific differences. Patriarchy: heteronormative patriarchy not just male-dominated or masculinist rule but also the enforcement of heterosexual norms to achieve that end. A way of thinking about the way the world is structured.