The first feminist challenge to mainstream international relations contends that women’s lives and experiences have been excluded from the study of srebreinca massacre Yugoslavia break up - humanitarian organisations men were most under threat but women were evacuated on priority - whilst constructivists simply question humanitarian victimhood, feminists go further in understanding why that was the case The analysis demonstrates the insights that feminism brings to IR, but also reveals the 1 Diana Thorburn, “Feminism meets international relations,” SAIS Review (Summer-Fall 2000): 1. The difficulties that feminist encounter with each of these issues is demonstrative of the need to eschew rather than clamour for a position within the strictures of mainstream IR. Feminist theories of international relations have thrived over the past decade as evidenced by the many and varied feminist contributions to the international relations field. Feminist versions International Relations and the State: Feminist Challenges to the Mainstream IR literature The sovereign state is the hallmark of the field of IR. • Reveals gender biases/blindness in conventional IR theories and seeks to transform the discipline. Last week, Memorial University’s Political Science department virtually hosted speakers Dr. Leah Sarson (Dalhousie University) and Dr. Maika Sondarjee (University of Ottawa) to discuss their research on the field of International Relations (IR). Feminism, as a movement, started in the beginning of 19th century with an aim to empower women as women had no right to vote. Feminist Theory in International Relations: • Emerged from late 1980s. Challenges of Feminism by constructivism? This phase of feminism is known as the first wave of feminism. Fourthly, it examines how Feminist writing on IR challenges the dichotomies of the Mainstream IR. The seminar, which took place on Friday, October 23rd, consisted of presentations from both speakers and a question period. international/domestic and private, which is the dominant femininity reflected in mainstream IR theory. Thirdly, the study addresses how Feminism exposes the gender biases in central terms such as power, autonomy, rationality, security, and state. 1 Feminism IR theory – the strengths and examples in practice Against this background, feminism IR theory is a critical theory since it focuses on how gender affects IR ideologies. = Gender sometimes taken as a causal variable eg. As with all theories of IR, there are internal debates among postcolonial scholars and in this case also a significant overlap with feminism – especially ‘third wave’ feminism that became prominent in the 1990s. Fifthly, the study examines how the Mainstream has responded to that challenge. It is a ‘complex set of understandings about how power operates, how power is legitimized and how power is perpetuated’ (Enloe, 2007, p.99). The study of IR broadly defined is about state-to-state relations, assuming territorial sovereign states as the most important political actors (Marx 2002 ).
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