Gender and Politics I & II

I.                   Politics and gender

a.     Underexplored issues

b.    Why care about gender?

c.     Gender vs. Sex

II.                Gender and the progressive left

a.     Capital-Labour relationships

b.    Class struggle and ‘reproduction’

c.     ‘Unproductive’ reproductive labour

d.    Gendered labour

III.             Three streams of complexity

a.     Feminisation of labour

                                                              i.      EPZs and the ‘attributes of women’

                                                            ii.      Homework

b.    Gendered division of labour

                                                              i.      Women as ‘non-workers’

                                                            ii.      The ‘private’ sphere and its complexity

c.     The double burden and the triple shift

                                                              i.      Public work and the caregiving assumption.

                                                            ii.      Inequality and the triple shift

IV.            Significance: ‘women’, politics and democracy

a.     The complexities of collective action

b.    Rights vs. Solidarity?