POL 4180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Postpositivism, Historical Sociology, Gender Analysis
18 Nov 2016
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Feminist experience in international relations: (cid:498)although critical engagement is rare, evidence of awkward silences and miscommunications can be found in the oral questions and comments ir-trained feminists frequently encounter when presenting their work to )r audiences (cid:499) (tickner) 76) identifies three major related ideas that feminist analysis in ir has developed: (cid:498)the state and market, in theory and practice, are gendered by masculinist assumptions and structures(cid:499) (cid:498)the dominant conceptualization of political and economic agency in male-dominated terms ignores both women"s realities and their active contributions to political and economic life(cid:499) Entering the discipline in the late 1980s, feminism has, for the most part, resisted these positivist approaches, preferring post-positivist orientations. Given the centrality of methodological issues, i believe that this is one of the most important reasons why feminism remains on the margines of the discipline and why feminist. Ir has generated so much resistance from the mainstream.
