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“The Feminist approach to international politics is biased.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 10 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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Feminist IR, built from the late 1980s by Cynthia Enloe, J. Ann Tickner and V. Spike Peterson, argues that the discipline's core concepts (the state, sovereignty, security, power) are gendered. The charge of bias comes from mainstream scholars and, more sharply, from within feminism. It holds in part, but it mistakes an open standpoint for…

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