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Focus = exploitation of women & gendered relations of power

Feminist scholars stress the importance of gender in shaping policies and practices world politics. In addition, because many women exist on the margins of politics, they are concerned with exclusion and marginalisation in international politics more broadly.

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6. A silenced majority?
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C. Feminist theory
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Feminist theory
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Focus = exploitation of women & gendered relations of power
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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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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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International system constituted by constructed gender hierarchies
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Shares much with critical theory & focus on theorising from bottom-up
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