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Gender = essential category of analysis to understand exclusion

Unless we recognise gender as a category of analysis, we cannot understand how gender relations of inequality act to exclude women from the business of foreign policymaking and ensure that they are located disproportionately at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale in all societies

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Themes & Theories in International Relations
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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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Gender = essential category of analysis to understand exclusion
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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 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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