期刊名称：International Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies
印刷版ISSN：2349-6711
电子版ISSN：2349-6959
出版年度：2016
卷号：3
期号：3
页码：174-184
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出版社：Scholar Publications
摘要：In everyday usage, the terms ‘gender’ and ‘sex’ are often used interchangeably. Indeed, one might say that a belief that gender differences are rooted in ‘natural’ or biological difference between men and women, and so are essential differences, is so prevalent that the proposition is still often simply accepted as uncontroversial. Gender studies and feminist ideas had long been accommodated within other branches of the social sciences, prior to the appearance of in International Relations, had not much noticed the relevance of gender in international relations and its related studies. With a focus on the high politics of realpolitik, the traditional western academic discipline of international relations (IR) privileges issues that grow out of men’s experiences. A socialized belief that war and power politics are spheres of activity which men have a special affinity and that their voices in describing and prescribing for this world are therefore likely to be more authentic. The roles traditionally prescribe to women in reproduction, in household works and even in the economy are generally considered irrelevant to the traditional construction of the field. Ignoring women’s experiences contributes not only to their exclusion but also to a process of self-selection those results in an over whelmingly male population both in the foreign policy world and in the academic field of international relations. It has been observed that girls and women who have joined into militaries often aren’t used by the men designing the force’s division of labour a weapon carrying soldiers instead, they were usually deployed as cooks, porters and forced wives of male combatants (Cyntheia Enloe). This paper is an attempt to analyse nature of identified gap of gender insensitivity in the discipline of international relations and its related fields. This analysis shall lay emphasis on the following aspects of IR: 1) Feminism and international relations theory. 2) Feminism and foreign policy. 3) Feminism and peace keeping operations. 4) Feminism and security studies. 5) Feminism and international political economy.
