Kimberley Hutchings on Feminism

Feminist

• significance of gender

• how the world is organized into gender and how it is organized into a heirachy

IA and Feminist

• gender mattered to diplomacy, war, global economic relations

• feminist scholars studied how gender mattered in relation to war

  • jean elshtain writes women and war, looks in way practice in war is gendered (labor)

• Diplomacy, depends on gendered relation ( like how women work on the social side)

Realism

• feminism challegnes realism

  • feminism, importance of gender as a structuring system

  • Significance of non-state actors

  • State isnt the only signficant actor in international relations ( signficance of non-stae actors, men and women)

  • similar liberal and constructivist, making the world a better place

Contructivism

• feminism is a contructivist approach

• gender is sociallly contructured category, comes out of systems of meaning, can be decontructed

• Tensions

  • some constructivism, gender is a causual variable

Feminism anaylis sees human trafficking and sexual violence an issue

• wasn’t seen as important to war

• before

  • sexual violence, seen as something that just happened

  • feminism: link sexual violence and how does it play in war

Gender Lense—Feminism

• intersectioanlity

Limitations

• accuse feminism of only being interested in women

• focus on to much micro level rather than macro

• doesnt do enough to generalize or law like, not enough of quantitive