Power and The State

"Issues of sexuality are at the heart of the whole workings of power in modern society. The state, broadly defined, clearly has a crucial role to play here. Through its role in determining legislation and the legal process it constitutes the categories of the permissible and the impermissible, the pure and the obscene." (Section Eight, B) 

     Talk of women's power within the public, or the state had really bummed me out in class. To think that men receive jobs that women typically won't receive or get payed as much had me speechless. Though there's been an obvious improvement throughout the decade because more and more women are getting an education, I find that the U.S state seems to be just another corrupt patriarchy where the general public would care to see women play a more private role at home. Which is why instantly then I thought of Hillary Clinton. 
I read this article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/16/hillary-clinton-feminist-foreign-policy.

     I find it great that Hillary Clinton has a voice as a U.S Secretary of State, and the more I think about it I would have loved to see where she could have brought women's rights and this country as a whole if she had been elected president. Mentioning women up to about 450 times within five months of being in office, she states: "Transformation of the role of women is the last great impediment to universal progress." She finds that women's issues are essential to the achievement of every goal of US foreign policy. Links have been drawn between gender inequality and political extremism including war. Women are crucial on issues such as food, health, education and democracy.

     Some question if Hillary Clinton can spread her feminist ideas across the globe even though gender inequality still exists within the U.S, and without foreigners labeling her as being just imperialistic. But I believe if people were aware of the fundamentals of feminism in general, and it's want to bring equality to everyone, and allow the ideas to cultivate into our society, Hillary Clinton would have a massive impact to the development of world peace, if she has not already.