Feminists highlight particular security threats faced by women

Focus on gender based violence against women. Gender based violence against women takes many forms – from the domestic abuse which takes place in private homes, to the trafficking of women and girls for sexual slavery – and has been termed the most common crime in the world

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