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International system constituted by constructed gender hierarchies

These contribute to gender subordination and in order to reveal gender hierarchies, feminist often examine IR at the micro-level to understand how lives are affected and affect global politics

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C. Feminist theory
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Feminist theory
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International system constituted by constructed gender hierarchies
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‘Added’ women where previously invisible in the study or IR
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Feminist theory came to IR in the 1980 and 1990s (it is not of IR)
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Focus = exploitation of women & gendered relations of power
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Gender = essential category of analysis to understand exclusion
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Gender as mode of analysis exposed much IR as patriarchal
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Shares much with critical theory & focus on theorising from bottom-up
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