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Language of Instruction
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English
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Level of Course Unit
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Bachelor's Degree
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Department / Program
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Political Science and İnternational Relations (English)
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Type of Program
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Formal Education
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Type of Course Unit
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Elective
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Course Delivery Method
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Face To Face
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Objectives of the Course
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The objective of Gender and Politics is to provide students with the analytical
tools to critically evaluate how political institutions and processes are inherently
gendered and to understand the resulting implications for democratic
participation.
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Course Content
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Gender and Politics explores the dynamic and complex relationship between
gender and political power. The course examines how gender identities, roles,
and norms shape political institutions, public policy, and individual political
behavior.
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Course Methods and Techniques
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Lecture Method, Discussion Method, Case Study Method, Individual Study
Method, Question-Answer Technique, Brainstorming Technique
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Prerequisites and co-requisities
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None
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Course Coordinator
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Asist Prof.Dr. Ahmet Özcan
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Name of Lecturers
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Dr. OĞUZ ÖZTOSUN
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Assistants
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None
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Work Placement(s)
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No
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Recommended or Required Reading
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Resources
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Scott, Joan W. (1986). “Gender: a useful category of historical analysis.” The American Historical Review, 91(5): 1053-1075.
M. Wollstonecraft (1792), A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin Classics, 2004. (Selected Parts)
Htun, Mala. (2005). “What it means to study gender and the state.” Politics & Gender 1, No. 1: 157-166.
Korpi, Walter. (2000). "Faces of inequality: Gender, class, and patterns of inequalities in different types of welfare states." Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 7, No. 2 (2000): 127-191.
Celis, Karen. (2009). “Substantive representation of women (and improving it): What it is and should be about?” Comparative European Politics, (7)1: 95-113.
Daly, Mary. (2002), “Care as a Good for Social Policy.” Journal of Social Policy, 31 (2): 251-70.
Htun, Mala, and Laurel Weldon. (2012). “The civic origins of progressive policy change: Combating violence against women in global perspective 1975–2005”. American Political Science Review, 106(3), 548-569.
Lombardo, Emanuela. (2003). “EU Gender Policy: Trapped in the Wollstonecraft Dilemma?.” European Journal of Women's Studies 10(2): 159-180.
Verloo, Mieke, and David Paternotte. (2018). "The feminist project under threat in Europe." Politics and Governance 6, No. 3: 1-5.
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Course Notes
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Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Vintage Books, 2011.
Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract, Stanford University Press, 1988.
Rosemarie Tong & Tina Fernandes Botts, Feminist Thought A More Comprehensive Introduction, Routledge,
2024.
Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of
Color”, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 43. No. 6., 1991, pp. 1241-1299.
Ian Christopher Fletcher, et. al. (Editors), Women’s Suffrage in British Empire Citizenship, Nation and Race,
Routledge, 2002.
Anne Phillips, The Politics of Presence, Clarendon Press, 1995.
Ronald Inglehart & Pippa Norris, Rising Tide Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the World,
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Catharine A. MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, Harvard University Press, 1989.
Fiona Mackay, et. al., “New Institutionalism Through a Gender Lens: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism?”,
International Political Science Review, 31(5), 2010, pp. 573-588.
Nancy Frazer, Cannibal Capitalism How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What
We Can Do About It, Verso, 2022.
Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, University of
California Press, 2000.
Cynthia Enloe, Maneuvers The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives, University of California
Press, 2000.
Maddy Coy, Violence Against Women in the US Theory, Research and Policy, Routledge, 2024.
Raewyn W. Connell, Masculinities, Routledge, 2005.
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