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Program of Political Science and International Relations (English)

POLI467

POLITICS, WOMEN AND MEDIA

Course Code
POLI467
Semester
-
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
5
Course TypeElective Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study-
Semester-
ECTS5
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. have the knowledge and skills to analyze print and visual media with a gender perspective.
  2. be able to establish connections between the different programs in print and visual media and the developments taking place in the political practice with regard to gender.
  3. be able to have experience as interns in media organizations, public relations units of different institutions, civil society organizations, state institutions, international bodies that work in the field of women-men equality.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsNo recommended optional programme components.
Course DescriptionThis course provides a historical account of the birth, spread and the evolution of women?s suffrage and emancipation movements across time and space. The course discusses why and how women movements are one of the most important social movements of contentious politics to decrease categorical social inequalities and hierarchies. This course discusses how movements for the emancipation of women have been important actors in the development of conceptions and practices of democracy.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Course introduction: What is "woman question" and women's liberation movement, and why should we care about them?
2nd Week Conceptualizing "Woman Question", Women's Liberation Movements and Women in Politics
3rd Week The Social Sources of Inequality and Women Oppression: Women's Exploitation in History
4th Week Changing Social Structures: Class, Gender and Industrialization
5th Week The Woman Question, Democracy, Anti-Democratic Reaction and Campaigns for Social Change
6th Week The Politics of Gender: The History of Women's Suffrage and Emancipation
7th Week Midterm Exam
8th Week The Rise of Women's Movement
9th Week Gender and Social Movements in the 1960s
10th Week Women Movements in Neoliberal Globalization Period
11th Week Women and the Domestic Sphere
12th Week Conservative and Postmodern Feminism: the Backsliding of Woman's Emancipation
13th Week Tradition and Woman
14th Week Social Movements and Media
Recommended or Required ReadingAfary, J. (1997) 'The war against feminism in the name of the almighty: making sense of gender and Muslim fundamentalism', New Left Review, No. 224.
Alan J. Spector, "Decade of Turbulence: Social Movements and Rebellion in the 1960s", In Berberoglu B. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 151-172.
Afary, J. (1997) 'The war against feminism in the name of the almighty: making sense of gender and Muslim fundamentalism', New Left Review, No. 224.
Barbara Epstein, "The Decline of the Women?s Movement", In Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper Eds., The social movements reader: cases and concepts, 2015, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., pp-347-353.
Chris Harman, "The rise of class societies", pp.3-16; "Women?s oppression", pp.29-31, A People?s History of the World, Bookmarks, 2002.
Corey Robin, The reactionary mind: conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump, Oxford University Press, 2018, p. 3-37.
Friedrich Engels, "Stages of Prehistoric Culture", "The Family", The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Penguin Classics, 2010 [1884].
Geoff Eley, "Feminism: Regendering the Left", Forging democracy, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp.366-383.
Geoff Eley, "The Politics of Gender: Women and the Left", Forging democracy, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 185-200.
Geoff Eley, "Socialism, Democracy, and the People", Forging democracy, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 17-32.
Harriet Bradley, "Changing Social Structures: Class and Gender", In Stuart Hall et al., Eds., Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, pp.123-147.
Heather McKee Hurwitz and Alison Dahl Crossley, "Gender and Social Movements", In David A. Snow et al. Eds.,The Wiley Blackwell companion to social movements, 2019.
Helen Crowley, "Women and the Domestic Sphere", In Stuart Hall et al., Eds., Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, pp.343-362.
Jo Freeman, "The Women's Movement", In Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper Eds., The social movements reader: cases and concepts, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2015, pp.13-23.
Ligaya Lindio-McGovern, "Neoliberal Globalization and Transnational Women's Movements in the Early Twenty-First Century", pp.353-372.
Mojab, S. (2001). Theorizing the Politics of 'Islamic Feminism.' Feminist Review, 69(1), 124?146.
Pamela Paxton and Melanie M. Hughes, "Introduction to Women in Politics", Pamela Paxton and Melanie M. Hughes, Women, politics, and power: a global perspective, Sage, 2014, pp.1-30.
Todd Wolfson and Peter Funke, "Contemporary social movements and media: The emergent nomadic political logic and its nervous system", pp. 76-93.
Optional Readings: Eisenstein, Zillah (1999). "Constructing a Theory of Capitalist Patriarchy and Socialist Feminism", Critical Sociology, 25(2?3), pp. 196?217.
Erdem Denk, 50 Bin Yıllık Dünya Düzeni: Toplumlar ve Hukukları, Kalkedon, 2021, s. 9-61.
Himani Bannerji, "Towards a Critique of Subaltern Studies and the 'Resolution of the Women Question'", The ideological condition: selected essays on history, race and gender, Brill, 2020, p.150-194.
Lauren Langman and Tova Benski, "Global Justice Movements: Past, Present, and Future", In Berberoglu B. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp-301-320.
Pamela Paxton and Melanie M. Hughes, "Women Struggle for the Vote", Women, politics, and power: a global perspective, Sage, 2014, pp.31-65.
Sandra Whitworth, "Feminist Theories and International Relations", Feminism and International Relations, Palgrave, 1997, pp. 11-38.
Sara Carpenter, "Democracy", Shahrzad Mojab Ed., Marxism and Feminism, Zed Books, 2015, pp.125-141.
Stuart Hall, "The Question of Cultural Identity", In Stuart Hall et al., Eds., Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, pp.596-632.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 30
Assignment 1 10
Attendance 1 10
Total(%) 50
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam 1 1 1
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work 14 4 56
Preparation for Final exam 1 25 25
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 20 20
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 1 1
Homework 1 7 7
Total Work Load152
Total Work Load / 30 (h)5.06
ECTS Credit of the Course5
Language of InstructionEnglish
Work Placement(s)No

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