Abstract
For most of its history, both the practice and the theory of international politics have been dominated by men and masculinity. In the 1980s, (mostly women) scholars of international politics began to ask where women are, both among world leaders and in International Relations (IR) classrooms, journals, and books. They found that it is not that women are absent from global politics—quite the opposite, they are often crucial to even the everyday operations of interstate relations—it is just that they are often invisible. In response, beginning in the 1980s, the subfield of feminist work in IR has grown to ask and address a wide variety of questions about sex and gender in global politics and IR as a discipline.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Oxford Companion to International Relations |
Editors | Joel Krieger |
Place of Publication | Oxford |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 300-304 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780199738878 |
Publication status | Published - 22 Apr 2014 |
Keywords
- feminist theory
- gender studies
- feminist IR