PLSC 361 - Women and Politics

2022-2023 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
Sex (like class, race, ethnic identity, religion, or nationality) is treated as a fundamental factor, crucial to political analysis. Explores the politics of male-female relations in individual and social dimensions and in geographically and historically comparative perspective. Examines the political behavior of women in the context of formal, political institutions. Also analyzes the impact of male-dominated structures and culture upon women’s consciousness and actions. In short, represents an aspect of the politics of inequality and the mechanisms of dominance and dependence.

Offered: Not on a Regular Basis