What is the "feminisation of politics"? How profoundly does it challenge the very forms and ways we do power?

What is the Feminisation of Politics?

Is it simply more women in politics?

is there more to this revolutionary logic than meets the eye?

Hear (above) from:

and others in this interactive discussion.

This Zoom talk was held on the 30th of Jan 2020 as a part of the Flatpack 2021 summit on rebuilding democracy together. More on the Flatpack 2021 campaign here.

More from Laura Roth on the feminisation of politics:

The feminisation of politics, beyond its concern for increasing presence of women in decision-making spaces and implementing public policies to promote gender equality, is about changing the way politics is done.

This dimension of feminisation aims to shatter masculine patterns that reward behaviour such as competition, urgency, hierarchy and homogeneity, which are less common in – or appealing to – women.

Instead, a feminised politics seeks to emphasise the importance of the small, the relational, the everyday, challenging the artificial division between the personal and the political. This is how we can change the underlying dynamics of the system and construct emancipatory alternatives.

Given that current power structures can only be reconfigured through everyday practices, it could well be that municipal politics is a better sphere of action than working at national or European scale.

Acting at a trans-local, even global, level is of great importance, but it is our view that the feminization of politics should start locally, because that’s where the foundation of any multi-level approach can be laid. The question of the role of municipalism in the feminization of politics is a question we will leave for another time.

See also Indra Adnan’s early version of her chapter on feminisation and politics - a full version in her forthcoming book The Politics of Waking Up

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