Do we need feminist theory in International Relations? If so why?
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Feminists and their critical position against main theories of world politics
- Understanding the feminist theory's main assumptions
- A post positivist theory
- The feminist theory and the issue of peace and justice
- Common assumptions and claims related to the will of making women visible in the public space
- A third version of feminist theory
- Range of feminist approaches of the discipline of IR
- The appearance of feminist theories in the realm of IR
- The main critics of the feminists against mainstream understandings of IR
- Conclusion
- Refrences
Abstract
Feminism is a critical social and political movement who first emerged at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth with women's claims of equal rights in society and in the political sphere, with the right of vote. But now, since approximately the end of the 1980's, feminist theories have begun to appear in the realm of international relations underlying the fact that 'IR is one of the most masculinists of disciplines in its personnel and its understanding of states, wars and markets' . Therefore, they focus not only on the position of women but also on the notion of gender arguing that today's perception of worlds politic is distorted by a 'gender-lens' which perpetuates a system were men are advantaged.
But can these feminist approaches be relevant in the study of world politics? Do they provide effective explanations on current international relation's key issues and notions such are state, war or peace?
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