POLI 550: Women, Equality, Representation (Rev. 1) Report a Broken Link

This graduate course is designed to introduce students to key concepts in feminist thought and central currents in feminist history and to examine representation of women in mass media and electoral politics.

Unit 1

Supplementary Readings


Grey, Sandra.

“Does Size Matter? Critical Mass and New Zealand’s Women MPs.” Parliamentary Affairs 55 (2002): 19-29.

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This article is available on Carmen Lawrence's web site.
Sawer, Marian, Manon Tremblay, and Linda Trimble, eds. Representing Women in Parliament: A Comparative Study. London: Routledge (forthcoming: 2007).
Young, Iris Marion. Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990.
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Unit 8


Required Readings
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Unit 10


Required Readings
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