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1 Feminism and International Relations: Tensions and Compatibilities 1 Feminism and International Relations: Tensions and Compatibilities
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2 When Global Actors Use Gender 2 When Global Actors Use Gender
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3 If not International Institutions, Who? 3 If not International Institutions, Who?
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4 Conclusions 4 Conclusions
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23 Feminism
Get accessSandra Whitworth is a professor of political science and is also appointed to the graduate program in gender, feminism, and women’s studies at York University in Toronto. She served for six years as home-base editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Her publications include Feminism and International Relations (1994); Men, Militarism and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis (2004); and International Relations, with Joshua Goldstein and Jon C. Pevehouse (2013). She has written various articles and book chapters on issues such as gender in Canadian foreign policy and human rights and was invited (with coauthor Dyan Mazurana) to produce the 2002 UN Secretary-General Study Women, Peace and Security.
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Published:02 September 2009
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Abstract
This article examines some of the principle tensions, but also compatibilities, between the study of international relations and feminism. It also reviews briefly some of the main points of debate and controversy within feminist thinking, and the ways in which feminist insights have been taken up by global actors in world politics, such as the United Nations. Much of the discussion of feminism and international relations has usefully focused on the ways in which mainstream accounts of international relations ignore its impact on gender and/or make invisible the kinds of contributions that feminist analyses can bring to processes of international relations. The article goes in a somewhat different direction by examining the ways in which ‘gender’ does circulate globally, and the ways in which gender has obtained something of a worldwide currency, especially in (but not limited to) questions of peace, violence, and conflict.
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