Gender and Politics

The aim of the course is to gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which gender and gender inequality shape institutions, policies, and political processes, as well as the way states affect gender relations, the political construction of gender, and political mobilization based on gender. Classical and contemporary views on gender and politics will be examined with a focus on three topics within the broad area of the relationship of gender and politics in some depths: women in politics; state social policy, and gender and ideology.