POL351H1S L0101
Gender, Politics, and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective
Themes
This course examines the role that politics, policies and institutions play in constructing gender and gender relations. It also explores how political actors have challenged gendered roles to create political change in formal and informal settings through institutions and social movements. We will aim to understand the ways that human rights regimes, economic structures, cultures and access to resources can affect gender disparities around the world as well as explore policy solutions to gendered inequality. This course will tackle these topics from a comparative perspective since gender inequities and rights vary across national contexts by drawing on cases from North America, Europe and the Global South. This course will also pay particular attention to the complexities and multidimensional ways that intersectionality affects gender.
Texts
Course readings will be available for download from UofT's library and/or posted on Quercus.
Format and Requirements
This course will be evaluated based on: class participation (15%); required reading reflections (15%); a critical article review (15%); an essay proposal and draft bibliography (20%); and a final essay (35%).
Prerequisites
1.0 credit in POL/ JPA/ JPF/ JPI/ JPR/ JPS/ JRA courses