Women and Politics in the Third World

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INTRODUCTION 7 S.Westwood (eds) (1993) ‘Viva’: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America, London: Routledge.
Chapter 1 Analysing women in the politics of the Third World Georgina Waylen This chapter aims to outline some of the issues involved in the analysis of women in Third World politics. It would be impossible for a piece of this type to be comprehensive in its coverage or to outline a definitive approach to the study of women in Third World politics but it does aim to provide some guidelines. Some of the themes covered will be specific to the study of women and politics in the Third World, while others will also be relevant to the study of women and politics more generally. This is based on three important assumptions. First, ‘polities’ does not have the same impact on women as it does on men as is often assumed and therefore this needs to be investigated. Second, the political process often alters gender relations, i.e. relations between men and women, and this needs to be explored. Third, women often participate as political subjects in political activity in different ways from men, which raises questions about the distinctiveness of ‘women’s political activity’—should it be classified and analysed as a separate entity? Addressing these questions has important implications for the study of politics as it has been conventionally constructed. 1 When looking for guidance in this endeavour, problems emerge with the conventional literature. Compared to some other social sciences such as sociology and anthropology and the humanities such as literary studies and history, orthodox political science has been slow to incorporate a gendered perspective into its approach (Silverberg 1990). The discipline of politics finds this hard to do. The traditional subject matter of the discipline—‘high polities’—treaties, wars, power politics as it is played out in the top echelons of the public sphere, not to mention the institutional politics of parties, executives and legislatures, is typically male dominated. In any discussion of gender relations and politics, the public/private split is a crucial notion which has both informed orthodox accounts and inspired feminist critiques. While much of this literature has been written in a Western context, and despite its often universal tone, about the First World, the influence that many of the ideas and concepts have had on political activity and its analysis in the Third World means that it is important to consider them here. Stretching back to contract theorists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and beyond, most of the political theory which underlies Western liberal democracy
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