Towards Heartfelt Positivity as a New Approach for (Feminist) IR
Feminist IR is preoccupied with the study of suffering, exploitation and vulnerabilities. A new approach should draw upon posthumanism to include joy, amusement and heartfelt positivity.
What Does the Pussy Riot Case Tell Us about the Status of Women’s Human Rights In Russia?
In a context where feminism is demonised for transgressing a series of socially ingrained values, there is little prospect for the Pussy Riot case to be used to enhance women’s rights in Russia.
In Search of Righting Wrongs: Women and the Transitional Justice Process in Tunisia
The inclusion of women, especially Islamists as the largest group of victims, is important for the overall success of transitional justice and to ensure that women’s rights will not be eroded in Tunisia.
Feminists Theorize International Political Economy
Feminist IPE has long been characterized by critical, theoretically rich, and methodogically radical grounded research and theorization, and this is a key source of its most important analytic insights.
Feminism and the Current Debates on Women in Combat
There is no one answer to whether the opening up of direct ground-combat positions to women is a good or bad thing from a feminist perspective. Responses to the issue from gender scholars are diverse.
The Delhi Rape Case: Rethinking Feminism and Violence Against Women
Western feminism needs the support of Indian feminists to reconsider its third wave obsession with diversity and to rethink its politics and scholarship around violence against women.
Political Activism, Legal Discourses and Sexual Violence in India
Demands for legal changes are often an immediate response to issues such as the Delhi rape case. Yet, moderate successes are often useless if attitudes regarding women’s sexuality remain unchanged.
The Silenced Women of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The CEFAM class on gender is a new addition to the course this year. To illustrate the silencing of women in international discourse, the civil war in Congo was used as a central case.
The Indian Woman’s Reality
India thronged to the streets recently in protest, after a young woman was brutally gang raped and subsequently died. But what the masses and policy-makers have failed to understand are the deeper cultural problems, allowing such crimes to happen.
Cypriot Women’s Struggles for Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325
Cyprus’ problems go beyond ethnicized politics into the fabric of its social order. A gender equality perspective can liberate men and women to build a healthier, just and democratic society.
