POLS 280 Study Guide - Final Guide: Moral Character, Radical Feminism, Sub-Saharan Africa

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 280
• Professor: Elizabeth Goodyear- Grant

Document Summary

Pols 280 week 11 conflict and access to political power, women in the. Gender lens on war: war as particularly brutal for women, women suffer as women. Statutory quotas: part of the normal legislature, eg. Candidate quotas and reserved seats in large-scale internal armed conflict: Constructive conditions for advancement of women(cid:495)s rep present themselves. Wars over nature of government and composition of regimes. Focus on developing countries where conflict rapidly changes women(cid:495)s rep. : Rwanda: legislative presence = population percentage (first country) Increased demand for candidates: men killed, wounded, imprisoned, cultural and ideological factors, women combatants, efforts of women in their groups. Women given access, changes women(cid:495)s perceptions of themselves: men see women(cid:495)s value after seeing them as combatants/parts of. Women in a better position to compete as candidates. Changes beliefs abut women, women(cid:495)s beliefs about themselves: gender roles and (cid:498)place(cid:499, women(cid:495)s direct involvement in resolutions, previous exclusion, perceived traits prioritised, skills/capabilities, moral claims to power.