Feminism: Historical Development
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Feminism: Historical Development 1
- Feminism theories entered the discipline of IR in the late 1980s and early 1990s (often referred to as third debate or fourth debate)
Early IR Feminists
- Early IR feminists: how its theories might be reformulated and how its understanding of global politics might be improved if attention were paid to women’s experiences.
- Feminists claimed that the differential impact of the state system and the global economy on the lives of women and men could be fully understood only when introducing gender analysis
- IR feminists critically re-examined some of the key concepts such as sovereignty, the state, and security.
- IR feminists have also sought to draw attention to women’s invisibility and gender subordination in international politics and the global economy.
Second generation IR feminist
- Second generation IR feminist: feminist have sought to demonstrate how vital women are to states’ foreign policies and to the functioning of the global economy.
- Women’s lives offer us a perspective outside the state-centric focus