Collective Consciousness and Gender 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781137544131,9781137544148,1137544139,1137544147

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• ISBN-10: 1137544147
• ISBN-13: 9781137544148
• Author: Alexandra Walker

This book explores collective consciousness and how it is applied to the pursuit of gender justice in international law. It discusses how the collective mode of behaviour and identity can lead to unconscious role-playing based on the social norms, expectations or archetypes of a group. Alexandra Walker contends that throughout history, men have been constructed as archetypal dominators and women as victims. In casting women in this way, we have downplayed their pre-existing, innate capacities for strength, leadership and power. In casting men as archetypal dominators, we have downplayed their capacities for nurturing, care and empathy. The author investigates the widespread implications of this unconscious role-playing, arguing that even in countries in which women have many of the same legal rights as men, gender justice and equality have been too simplistically framed as ‘feminism’ and ‘women’s rights’ and that giving women the rights of men has not created gender balance. This book highlights the masculine and feminine traits belonging to all individuals and calls on international law to reflect this gender continuum.

Table contents:

1. I Versus We: Introduction to Collective Consciousness
Part I. Collective Consciousness in Theory
2. Entanglement: The Interaction Between Individual and Collective Consciousness
3. Collective Consciousness Theory in Sociology
4. Collective Consciousness in Psychology
5. The Field Hypothesis: Quantum Phenomena and Mind/Matter Interaction
6. The Collective Self Framework
7. The Collective Unconscious: How Collective Consciousness Is Distorted
8. How Collective Consciousness Works
Part II. Collective Consciousness in Practice: Gender in International Law
9. Case Study Part One: The Collective Consciousness of Gender
10. Case Study Part Two: Unconscious Gender Role-Playing
11. Case Study Part Three: Raising Consciousness—Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Armed Conflict
12. Case Study Part Four: Different Perspectives on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
13. Case Study Part Five: Empowering the Masculine and the Feminine in International Law
14. Final Observations

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