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| Politics: Politics is the process of making decisions in groups. It is about how people come together to allocate resources, settle disputes, and make choices about how to live together. See also Democracy, Society._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Feminism on Politics - Dictionary of Arguments
Gaus I 285 Politics/Feminism/Mottier: (...) feminist theory has expanded the notions of power and the political. On this point, feminist political theory has operated a double move over the past few decades. First, it has extended the notion of the political to sites of power outside of the formal arena of politics and key insti- tutions of the public sphere such as the state, to include family life and sexuality as sites of gender inequality and construction of gender identities. Gender/Sex: Recent feminist political theory has thus renewed earlier concerns with sexuality and gender. Early feminist theorists such as Kate Millett (1970)(1) and Shulamith Firestone (1970)(2) emphasized the central role of sexuality and reproduction in gender relations of power, thereby extending the boundaries of the political. At the level of practical politics, the politicization of sexuality was correspondingly central to an important part of feminist political claims, such as the issues of contraception, sexual violence, pornography, incest and sexual harassment. Thus, feminist discourse endeavoured to introduce the politics of sex in the political arena - and often succeeded (see Carver and Mottier, 1998(3)). Power: Later feminist theorists have tended to shift the focus to relations of power around the economy and the state. Feminist debate on relations between the public and the private have, as we have seen, tended to move in recent years towards an argument for maintaining some separation between the two spheres. >Power, >Governance, >Society. Poststructuralism: Current trends in the area of biotechnologies and reproductive technologies, combined with the increasing influence of poststructuralist and postmodern theories, have again put sexuality at the centre of feminist analysis and practice. The broadening of the concept of democracy and power to include relations in the private sphere, promoted by many feminist theorists, is amongst the major contributions of gender theory. >Gender. Gaus I 286 State: From the focus on the effects of states on gender relations, current feminist research is (...) increasingly exploring the impact of global arenas such as the global political economy and international relations on gender relations, gender identifications, and gender mobilizations (for example, Elshtain, 1987(4); Enloe, 1989;(5) Peterson, 1992(6); Sylvester, 1994(7); Steans, 1998(8)). The feminist rethinking of the relations between states and the international arena further contributes to the move away from what Christine Sylvester (1993)(9) terms 'Western feminist narcissism' (...). >State. 1. Millett, Kate (1970) Sexual Politics. New York: Doubleday. 2. Firestone, Shulamith (1970) The Dialectic of Sex. New York: Bantam. 3. Carver, Terrell and Véronique Mottier, eds (1998) Politics of Sexuality: Identity, Gender, Citizenship. London: Routledge. 4. Elshtain, Jean Bethke (1987) Women and War. New York: Basic. 5. Enloe, Cynthia (1989) Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Relations. London: Pandora. 6. Peterson, Spike V., ed. (1992) Gendered States: Feminist (Re-) Visions of International Relations Theory. Boulder, CO: L e Reinner. 7. Sylvester, Christine (1994) Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 8. Steans, Jill (1998) Gender and International Relations. Cambridge: Polity. 9. Sylvester, Christine (1993) 'Homeless in international relations? "Women's" place in canomcal texts and feminist reimaginings'. In M. Ringrose and A. J. Lerner, eds, Reimagining the Nation. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 76_97. Véronique Mottier 2004. „Feminism and Gender Theory: The Return of the State“. In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Feminism Gaus I Gerald F. Gaus Chandran Kukathas Handbook of Political Theory London 2004 |
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