•where are the women in ‘green jobs’?  

•How do men and women differently experience the effects of a changing climate? (Joanna Flavell)
Neoliberalism: liberalizing trade and capital flows
•Who benefits from neoliberalism? 
•Who misses out because of neoliberalism? 

•Can be as methodologically as simple as asking ‘where are the women in this story’

•Often has surprising results.  Making women visible empirically has indispensable results.  

•But, simply adding women often leaves problems in-tact.  

•Can’t address feminised labour. 

•Can’t address the structural privileging of men and masculinities.  

•Can’t address the depoliticization of women’s subordination in the workplace and in the household. (Joanna Flavell)

•how does masculinity shape our response to the climate crisis?  

•What kinds of knowledge are valued or de-valued in this process?

•Gives a more nuanced picture.  

•Understanding analytical gender allows us to question processes that valorise the masculine with de-valorising that deemed feminine.  

•It allows us to talk about gender in a way that does not mean ‘by all men, or only men’ or ‘by all women, or only women’. 

•Questions characteristics associated with masculinity and femininity

•reason, the economic man, the breadwinner, works in the public sphere 

•gentleness, empathy, humility, and sensitivity, works in the private sphere. (Joanna Flavell)

‘what is at stake here is not the distinctions between men/women, and human/nature, but rather their dualistic construction’ (Plumwood, 1993, p. 33). 

(Joanna Flavell)

•Critical feminism: social interpretation of biological differences – social practices, identities and institutions

•Poststructural feminism: gender as the effect of discourses of power, the discourse is constitutive of the difference between men and women

•Postcolonial feminism: feminist discourses of the global north are of preeminent concern for women from there, not necessarily all women

•Thus, the state regulated that men were rulers and women were to be ruled through a constant state of legal and social violence. Consequently, the state could not be said to be a neutral concept or institution, but is a ‘main organizer of the power relations of gender’ in both its formal expression and effects (Peterson 1992: 9).

[Baylis, John/Smith, Steve/Owens, Patricia. The Globalization of World Politics]

[Baylis, John/Smith, Steve/Owens, Patricia. The Globalization of World Politics]

•Critical feminism: social interpretation of biological differences – social practices, identities and institutions (realize that the feminine gender identity is socially constructed, not natural)

•Poststructural feminism: gender as the effect of discourses of power, the discourse is constitutive of the difference between men and women (the power discourse creates gender)

•Postcolonial feminism: feminist discourses of the global north are of preeminent concern for women from there, not necessarily all women (gender can be used for neocolonialism, a war to free the women)