PLSI-3466 Gender Politics and Political Theory

Analyzes key canonical texts in feminist political theory, gender theory, and masculinity studies, as well recent work in these fields, while also exploring representations of gender politics in "everyday life." Studies how socially-constructed norms and idealized images of gender shape the ideologies, laws, and institutions - as well as the spaces and places - of politics. Explores how gender politics play out in the construction and constitution of concepts that are the building blocks of politics, while also assessing how they can be resisted and re-envisioned to realize greater equality, inclusion, and representation.