Open AccessWhere Are The Women? A Contemporary Feminist IR Critique Of Security In World Politics
Author(s) -
Saima Siddiqui
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
pakistan journal of gender studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-8886
pISSN - 2072-0394
DOI - 10.46568/pjgs.v7i1.271
Subject(s) - gender studies , masculinity , ideology , feminist philosophy , international relations , sociology , politics , feminism , realism , hegemony , subject (documents) , construct (python library) , feminist theory , international relations theory , subjectivity , political science , epistemology , law , philosophy , library science , computer science , programming language
The international relations (IR) discourse has been a subject of feminist critique for over two decades. One of the key concerns for this assessment is marginalisation women and gender perspectives in security studies. Many feminists have argued that world politics remain a masculine domain where fewer women are visible at the decision making positions. The association of masculinity and security has allowed feminist scholars to identify possible impediments for this inadequacy. This article explores the “gendered” nature of international relations from a contemporary feminist perspective by means of critiquing the realist theory in international relations. For this purpose, the article is going to examine hegemonic masculinity and how it links with theoretical ideology and practice of realism to socially construct the dominant masculine and weak feminine gender hierarchies in world politics.