Gender

Question 1

Why does gender link to human security?

Answer 1

• freedom from want (economic and social well being)

Question 2

what is the difference between problem solving knowledge and emancipation?

Answer 2

• problem solving knowledge like realism is conservative (wants to know what exists at present)
• emancipatory knowledge focus on power and domination to liberate humanity
  (e. g. ISIS, rich / poor, gender, race)

Question 3

What is the gist of gender in IR?

Answer 3

• no women, no peace (never occupied an important space)

Question 4

how could you justify that women are less inclined to war?

Answer 4

• public approval ratings in UK for Afghanistan war were lowest among women and for drone strikes
• women often been involved in peace movements

Question 5

How can you counter argument for women in war?

Answer 5

• 21st century = women now utilised

- e.g. US marine corps for females 15% of military are women

Question 6

what did Loraine code say about patriarchy?

Answer 6

• ‘it is right and proper for men to command and women to obey’

Question 7

Eric M Blanchard said what about women wanting to gain office>

Answer 7

• Generally helps to have military experience but women cant get this

Question 8

What two types of feminism did Code distinguish between?

Answer 8

• standpoint feminism and radical feminism

- standpoint is the gendered construction of knowledge

Question 9

Who said that feminism can never be a single voice because it comes in many forms?

Answer 9

• Diana Thornburn

Question 10

Which to theorists said that theory and IR itself was biased and male centred?

Answer 10

• Tickner and Griffith

Question 11

what did Enloe write? It’s a question

Answer 11

• where are the women?

Question 12

what does radical feminism say?

Answer 12

• radical feminism states that women have not been neglected but that their achievements are not recognised enough in terms of contributions to IR

Question 13

what did tessler and warriner find about the correlation between women and war?

Answer 13

• those who wanted equality were less inclined to war

Question 14

why does feminism stem from a critique of realism?

Answer 14

• they say realism emphasises state role too much

Question 15

What is the feminist critique of liberalism? What does Jacqui true say?

Answer 15

• economic inequalities of free trade
• Jacqui True says that globally women are disadvantaged only having 1% of property globally but making up 60% of work force
• Can there really be equality when leaders are themselves from patriarchy?

Question 16

why does hilary Charlesworth critique formal international norms like the Beijing declaration?

Answer 16

• She says that there is no definition of gender and an inability to secure benchmarks to asses success/progress

Question 17

who argues that feminism should not be a separate theory in IR when you consider its relationship with realism and liberalism?

Answer 17

• Ruiz