Feminism on Power & State
• Feminist theory increasingly influential
• Not a unified, comprehensive theory; provides a lens to examine international relations
• feminist or gender scholarship is NOT JUST about women… deeper (epistemological roots)… socially constructed masculinity & femininity - - and how ideas about what these things structure or influence the ways we can behave, the ways we can think – what gets counted as important and what gets seen as trivial or unimportant.
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Feminists often contend that traditional theories conceptualise power as power over others.
Morgenthau's picture of international relations, divorced from feminine notions of the personal, emotional and private.
Enloe highlights an issue with the state-centric concept of power. First, she notes that power “only exists within a relationship.
Power is interpreted as state-centric, masculinised and understood as domination or power over others. According to the feminist perspective, this formulation of power is misleading as it ignores the oppressed other and the power relations required to keep them there, and means that traditional theories disregard the many strands of power emerging from shifting gender, class and ethnic relations in the margins of society that can impact upon international relations alongside the central power of the state.
Traditional theories’ reliance upon these conceptions of power therefore amounts to an inaccurate and
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According to the Ocean Encyclopedia, “Feminism is both an intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice for women and an end to gender inequality, sexism, in all forms.” There are many different kinds of sexism in the world that have been a cause of conflict, disagreement, controversy, and numerous other problems. Feminists disagree about what sexism consists in, and what exactly ought to be done about it; what they generally disagree is about what it means to be a women or…
thought that this particular conflict would lead to revolution because there was an unbalanced relationship between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat and conflict was inherent in the economic system. Marxists claim that the bourgeoisie also had power in other institutions and they nurture the society because they manage the mass media, the legal system and it’s their ideas that control the school curriculum. Through the socialisation process, the values and attitudes of the ruling class are passed…
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