POLS-306 Public Policy and Marginalized Groups
This course examines the impact and influence of women on public policy from the inside, as formal actors in government and partisan institutions, and from the outside, via civic organizations as both non-citizens and citizens. The course uses a comparative approach to explore systematically the ways in which women have navigated, sometimes successfully, intersectional realities of class, race, gender identity and ideological orientation to influence public policy. The first half of the course concentrates on women in politics and the second examines specific policy areas, such as reproductive choice and equity issues. Normally offered alternate years.