• First, second, and third-wave feminism
• Intersectionality
• Gender, patriarchy, and capitalism

Essay Question

• Why do gender gaps in political attitudes and voting change over time? (PPE 2018)
• To what extent are gender differences derived from differences between the sexes?
• ’The question for feminist theory is not why men exercise power over women but why women let them.’ Discuss.

Reading List

• Campbell, Rosie and Rosalind Shorrocks. 2023. “The Evolution of the Gender Gap?”, British Social Attitudes 40.
• Catharine A. MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, 1989, Chs 1, 7–8, 11–12.
• Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, 1884.
• Gillion, D., Ladd, J., & Meredith, M. 2020. “Party Polarisation, Ideological Sorting and the Emergence of the US Partisan Gender Gap”, British Journal of Political Science.
• Goldin, C. D. (2023) Career & family : women’s century-long journey toward equity. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Goffman, E. (1979). Gender advertisements (Communications and culture). London: Macmillan.
• Kimberlé Crenshaw, ‘Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color’, Stanford Law Review 43, 1991.
• Kuipers, Giselinde, Van der Laan, Elise, & Arfini, Elisa A. G. (2017). Gender models: Changing representations and intersecting roles in Dutch and Italian fashion magazines, 1982-2011. Journal of Gender Studies, 26(6), 632-648.