摘要：International Relations (IR) is highly resistant to feminist research and questioning. It is one of the last of the social sciences to experience a feminist challenge from within; though feminisms are still marginal and contained in most other disciplines, too. Until very recently women were invisible in IR, as if either they were not there — as if the business of IR is, literally, men's business, or as if men and women were affected in the same ways and played the same kinds of roles in IR. Gender was not considered a relevant or useful analytic category in the study of IR, and feminist research was kept pretty well out of IR (and indeed there are whole IR departments and journals where this still appears to be the case). IR, then, is often accused of being the most resistant — and the most masculinist — of the social sciences (and might there be a connection between these two?) I will begin by briefly considering this resistance, and then describe some beginning moments in feminist IR, before going on to explore what happens when we bring women"s experiences and feminist scholarship into the world of IR. I'll do this by picking up on several aspects of my current writing, on nationalism, war and state militaries, and on the international political economy of sex.
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