This course explores the relationship between gender, culture and politics. It offers a the oretical survey of the role of gender in shaping definitions of the political and practices of citizenship and participation. Through the discussion of concrete examples representing a diversity of cultural, social and political contexts,the course opens up to discussion gendered social and political mobilizations , identity politics, the interaction between the personal and the political, and different forms and spheres of doing politics ranging from the everyday to transnational, face-to face to digital encounters. The course also critically assesses the sociopolitical ramifications of institutional and national gender policies and cultural political perspectives regarding changing gender relations.

This course explores the relationship between gender and politics across three interrelated levels. It offers a survey of key perspectives in gender and politics, aiming to explain how gender shapes the conception of the political as well as major political concepts such as representation, participation, power, governance, and democracy. It also examines the gendered construction of social and political movements through an overview of mobilization at both micro and macro, as well as national and transnational, levels. Finally, the course engages contemporary developments in gender and politics, with particular attention to anti-gender mobilizations and processes of de-democratization.