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The course offers an introduction to political economy from a gender perspective, focusing on key gender differences in economic, social, and political outcomes. To this end, the course introduces the feminist economics principles, and compares its fundamentals with other economic perspectives, namely neoclassical and heterodox approaches. The course critically examines analytical categories in socio-economic literature and expands gender as an analytical category together with other intersections based on demographics contextualized in the Global North and Global South.
The course provides a historical perspective of the evolution of women in the labour market and household production, the role of social reproduction in macroeconomic and microeconomics contexts. The course will also review the principles of gender and development literature and focus on the role of globalization in change the role of women in society. Non-binary gender conceptualizations will be explored, and LGTBQ+ political economy will be introduced and studied. The role of policies and the state in women and men livelihoods, and gender differences in outcomes and power relations will be also at the core topics of the course. Gender differences in political behaviour and their interplays with gendered labour market outcomes will be studied.
The course ultimately promotes a critical thinking of gender differences in the society, with a special focus on the economy, but also on other societal realms. Students will be provided a strong theoretical and empirical background and research tools in feminist studies. |
