POL208Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam, Essentialism, International Studies Association
1 Mar 2016
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It is relatively commonplace: there are many clearly documented cases in which sexual assault has been used as a policy against certain communities or groups. Examples include ww2 korean sex slaves, rape of. Bosnian women by serbs during the yugoslav civil war for women to facea sexual assault of varying kinds in conflict zones. 3 different perspectives in feminist ir essentialist, liberal feminist, critical theory. Feminists/postmodern feminists: essentialists, essentialists belive that at a fundamental level, men and women are different. Women: the key difference is a biological difference are seen as having different, more compassionate characteristics than men. Women: essentialists argue that because only women can give birth and make live, they are the us and europe evolved to be more compassioante. There has to be another: what does vary is how people are socialized; socialization varies from culture to culture, liberals say that things would not chance if women were in positions of power.
