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Feminists question prioritisation of security threats

They ask why, when more people die from hunger every year than have been killed in conflict since 1989 are the possible attacks of a state or terrorist group deemed more realistic, important & immediate threats than fundamental threats to security from poverty, HIV/AIDS, environmental destruction?

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Feminists question prioritisation of security threats
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Anti-militarism, conciliation, non-violence = feminised as weak & soft
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Feminists ask who's guaranteed security/ whose lives are being secured
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Feminists highlight particular security threats faced by women
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Historically war & combat = highest aspirations for men
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IR = patriarchal discourse dominated by elite white male practitioners
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Masculinity & militarism are interdependent
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War legitimated by gendered narratives of war & masculinity
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