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Discuss in the context of development policies of the IMF/WB or in the context of post-conflict reconstruction.
How are development practices gendered? Discuss in the context of development policies of the IMF/WB or in the context of post-conflict reconstruction.
Gender and International Politics essay
The essay must be explicitly cushioned in feminist international relations theory
Here is what my tutor wrote in the course guide/reading lists
Introduction
This course explores how the social, political, and cultural constructions of gender underwrite and animate practices of international politics. It will examine the ways in which power is gendered and how gender is a central site framing the organisation of international politics, the distribution of power, and the boundaries of political life. Foregrounding power emphasises how masculinity and femininity are socially constituted representations rather than natural, biological givens. Beginning with an understanding of gender as a hierarchical, binary opposition, we will examine how gender categories are produced in the study and practice of international politics, and how they shape our identities, our ways of thinking (states, power, anarchy), and our ways of acting (security, militarism, globalization, capitalism).
The objective of this course is to sensitise students to social constructions of gender and their implications for international politics. Thus, the course encourages a reconceptualisation of the nature of “international politics” and a broadening of what we deem ?international? and “political? once we take seriously how gender shapes who we are, how we think and act, and what ?realities? we create.
Required Readings
1. Laura J. Shepherd, Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations (London: Routledge 2010).
2. All journal articles are available full text online, and all other readings can be found in the library.
Preliminary Reading
Parpart, Jane L., and Marysia Zalewski, Rethinking the Man Question: Sex, Gender and Violence in International Relations (London: Zed Books, 2008)
Ackerly, Brooke A., Maria Stern, and Jacqui True, eds., Feminist Methodologies for International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Enloe, Cynthia (2000) Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. London: University of California Press.
Hooper, Charlotte (2001) Manly States: Masculinities, International Relations, and Gender Politics. New York: Columbia University Press.
Steans, Jill (1998) Gender and International Relations: An Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Journals
The following journals will provide much of the leading-edge feminist research. Critical International Relations journals that are not explicitly feminist also provide space for feminist engagement in IR.
Feminist Review; Feminist Studies; Gender and History; Hypatia; International Feminist Journal of Politics; Signs: A Journal of Women and Culture; Women?s History Review; Women?s Studies International Forum; Women?s Studies International Quarterly; Men & Masculinities, War & Cultural Studies.
Evaluation
4,000 word essay 75%
Book Review 15%
Participation 10%
Essay
Due on 8 May 2012, by 2pm
Students will be given a list of essay questions in the fourth week of class. Questions will take up key issues in gender and international politics and allow students an opportunity to pursue in more detail a subject covered in the course. Essays must be explicitly cushioned in feminist international relations theory.
Essays should be 4,000 words, and are to be word-processed, 12 pt. font, double-spaced, and fully referenced. Referencing should be consistent throughout, and must conform to either the MLA/Harvard (referencing in the text) or Chicago/Cambridge (footnotes/endnotes) methods of formatting. The lack of a proper bibliography and appropriate references will result in the deduction of marks.
The final essay is worth 75% of the final mark.
Written Assignments
The following criteria will be used to evaluate your written assignments. Please be sure to read them carefully. Essays must conform to faculty guidelines regarding footnoting and bibliography. Please see Course Unit Guide Part II: Policies, Procedures and Other Useful Information for POLI Course Units.
Analytic Content: Higher grades will be given to work that demonstrates a keen comprehension of reading and lecture materials in combination with an interpretation and critical analysis of that material. Lower grades will be given to work that summarizes or describes the reading and lecture materials. To ensure that you are proceeding prudentially, ask yourself ?Am I telling the reader what I think about the concepts and ideas in my paper and why they are important to my argument, or am I simply telling the reader what these concepts are?? In other words, you will be required to engage with the literature rather than merely repeating it.
Development of an Argument: Higher grades will be given to work that has a clearly stated thesis and set of logically developed and reasonably comprehensive arguments in support of that thesis. Lower grades will be given to work that has no thesis or has a thesis that is not logically developed or adequately supported by evidence provided in the body of the paper. It is therefore helpful to ask yourself ?Does my paper attempt to prove a point?? A strong paper seeks to convince the reader of the soundness of its central argument (i.e., that you are ?right? in your assessment). Imagine that you are trying to tell people about a brilliant idea for Canada?s future direction in foreign policy? have you anticipated and accounted for their questions and potential counter-arguments in your paper? NOTE: a paper that has a clear thesis is almost unavoidably analytical whereas the failure to develop a thesis and logical supporting arguments will make the analytic requirement difficult to meet.
Grammar, Spelling, and Style: Higher grades will be given to written work that is grammatically correct and is clear and articulately written. Lower grades will be given to work that is difficult to read or understand due to excessive grammatical and/or spelling errors. Do not rely solely on grammar and spelling checkers found in word processing software as these do not pick up the vast majority of errors. Different approaches to proof-reading work for different people, but I would recommend the following strategy: after completing a first draft of your assignment, put it away for a while (ideally, for a few days); when you pick it up again, read it carefully, slowly, and aloud because when we are familiar with a paper we tend to skim it during proof-reading, thereby missing errors (make sure that you are reading it word for word!). Mistakes in grammar may not always look wrong, but they usually sound wrong. If you need some help with writing style or grammar issues, you are encouraged to seek assistance.
Meeting the Requirements of the Assignment: All written work must be submitted on time, must be of the appropriate length, must use the required number and type of resources, and, most importantly, must address the issues or questions posed in the assignment.
Mechanics and Aesthetics: Higher grades will be given to written work that includes all of the basic requirements of any written assignment. This includes a title page (with a title, your name, student number, and course number), complete and proper referencing in a major recognized format (above all else be consistent), and numbered pages. Furthermore, all the conventions of essay writing should observed: double-spacing, use of a standardized 12 point size font, uniform one inch margins, single-spacing and indenting of quotations longer than four lines, printing in black ink only, et cetera. Lower grades will be assigned to work that does not include all of these elements and to work that is sloppy in general. Again, careful proof reading is key here.
Class Schedule and Required Readings
2 February 2012 ? Course Overview
* Cynthia Enloe?s, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (passim)
PART I ? Setting the Feminist Scene(s) in International Politics
9 February 2012 ? Feminism and International Politics: What, if any, are the connections?
How is feminism different than mainstream theories of IR? Is gender a legitimate analytical category? Is it more or less significant than a category such as anarchy? Do you think of gender when you think of international politics? If not, why? If so, why?
? Terrell Carver, ?Conclusion? in Gender Matters in Global Politics, pp, 347-350.
? Marysia Zalewski, ?Feminist International Relations: Making Sense?? in Gender Matters in Global Politics, pp. 28-43.
Learning Outcomes: Have a sense of how and why gender matters to the study and practice of international politics.
16 February 2012 ? Sex? Gender? Power?
What is the relationship between sex and gender? Are biological sex and gender coterminous? Can you be one and not the other? What does power have to do with sex and gender?
? Laura J. Shepherd, ?Sex or Gender? Bodies in World Politics and Why Gender Matters? in Gender Matters in Global Politics, pp. 3-16.
? Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (London: Routledge) pp. 9?11, 45?9.
Learning Outcomes: Have a sense of the different (feminist) understandings of the relationship between sex and gender and how power is differently implicated in these understandings.
23 February 2012 ? Feminist Theories and Methods
Why does theory/method matter to how we understand/explain the world? What are the differences between scientific methods and post-positivist methods? How are they gendered?
? Lene Hansen, ?Ontologies, Epistemologies, Methodologies? in Gender Matters in Global Politics, pp. 17-27.
? Anna M. Agathangelou and Heather M. Turcotte, ?Postcolonial Theories and Challenges to ?First World-ism,? in Gender Matters in Global Politics, pp. 44-58.
? Christina Rowley, ? Popular Culture and the Politics of the Visual,? in Gender Matters in Global Politics, pp. 309-325.
Highly Recommended:
? Brooke A. Ackerly, Maria Stern, and Jacqui True, eds., Feminist Methodologies for International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), Chapter 1.
Learning Outcomes: To understand that theories are crucial to what we ?see? and how we ?are? in the world and to understand the politics involved in theorising.
PART II ? Putting IR Feminism into Practice
1 March 2012 ? Women & War
How are women involved in war? What is the relationship between femininity and sovereign practices of war? Can women be soldiers?
? Maria Stern and V?ronique Pin-Fat, ?The Scripting of Private Jessica Lynch: Biopolitics, Gender, and the ?Feminization? of the U.S. Military,? Alternatives 30 (2005), pp. 25-53.
? Cristina Masters, ?Femina Sacra: The ?War on/of Terror?, Women and the Feminine,? Security Dialogue, 40:1 (2009), pp. 29-49.
? Mary Ann Franks, ?Obscene Undersides: Women and Evil between the Taliban and the United States,? in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 18:1 (Winter 2003), pp. 135-156.
? Claire Turenne Sjolander; Kathryn Trevenen, ?One of the Boys? Gender Disorder in Times of Crisis,? International Feminist Journal of Politics 12:2 (2010), pp. 158-176.
Highly Recommended:
? Lynne Segal, ?Gender, war and militarism: making and questioning the links,? Feminist Review 88:1 (2008), pp. 21-35.
? Cynthia Cockburn, ?Gender Relations as Causal in Militarization and War: A Feminist Standpoint,? International Feminist Journal of Politics 12:2 (2010), pp. 139-157.
Learning Outcomes: To understand how practices of war both depend upon and produce ?woman?.
8 March 2012 ? Masculinity(s) & War
How are masculinity and violence connected? Is this connection integral to masculinity? Is there more than one kind of masculinity? Can you have war without a notion of masculinity (or gender)?
? Kimberly Hutchings, ?Making Sense of Masculinity and War,? Men & Masculinities 10:4 (2007), pp. 389-404.
? Bonnie Mann, ?How America Justifies Its War: A Modern/Postmodern Aesthetics of Masculinity and Sovereignty,? Hypatia 21:4 (2006), pp. 159-160.
? Charlotte Hooper, Manly States: Masculinities, Gender Politics and International Relations (New York: Columbia University Press), Chapter 1.
Learning Outcomes: To understand how identity, such as masculinity, is central to practices in international politics.
15 March 2012 ? Sexual Violence & Conflict
How is sexual violence connected to conflict and war? Why rape? Is it a ?tool? of war, or is it something much more complex?
? Maria Baaz and Maria Stern, ?The Complexity of Violence: A critical analysis of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),? (2010). Report can be downloaded at: http://nai.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?page=statistics&pid=diva2:319527
? Megan Mackenzie, ?Securitizing Sex? Towards a Theory of the Utlility of Wartime Sexual Violence,? International Feminist Journal of Politics 12:2 (2010), pp. 202-221.
Highly Recommended:
? Katharine H.S. Moon, Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in US-Korea Relations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), Chapters 1 & 2.
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Learning Outcomes: To understand how ?sex? becomes a crucial act and site in prosecuting and understanding conflict/war.
22 March 2012 ? Gender & Trafficking
Why are women trafficked for sex? What is the connection to sovereignty and security? Is the language of victim appropriate/necessary/useful for critically understanding women who are trafficked?
? Barbara Sullivan, ?Trafficking in Human Beings,? in Gender Matters in Global Politics, pp. 89-102.
? R. Andrijasevic, ?Beautiful Dead Bodies: Gender, Migration and Representation in Anti-Trafficking Campaigns,? Feminist Review 86 (2007), pp. 24-44.
? Julietta Hua and Holly Nigorizawa, ?US Sex Trafficking, Women?s Human Rights and the Politics of Representation,? International Feminist Journal of Politics 12:3/4 (2010), pp. 401-423.
Learning Outcomes: To make connections between (gendered) bodies and practices of state (making).
23 March ? 16 April 2012 Easter Break
19 April 2012 ? Gendered Economies
Is the global economy gendered? How so? What are the (gendered) connections between the everyday and the global?
? V. Spike Peterson, ?International/Global Political Economy,? in Gender Matters in Global Politics, pp. 204-217.
? Penny Griffin, ?Development Institutions and Neoliberal Governance,? in Gender Matters in Global Politics, pp. 218-233.
? Juanita Elias and Lucy Ferguson, ? Production, Employment, Consumption,? in Gender Matters in Global Politics, pp. 234-248.
Learning Outcomes: To understand how the global economy is sustained and dependent upon gender.
26 April 2012 ? Why does Feminism matter to International Politics?
Is feminism dead? Is it relevant in our contemporary context? Does it need to change? Why? How?
Maria Stern and Marysia Zalewski, ?Feminist fatigue(s): reflections on feminism and familiar fables of militarization,? Review of International Studies 35:3 (2009), pp. 611-630.
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