Feminism

Fixing Gender in International Politics

Marysia Zalewski • Aug 18 2010 • Articles

There a palpable sense of both exuberance and excitement in recent developments in gender and international politics. Though I use the word gender, this still tends to end up meaning women; I wonder why this is, especially as scholarly texts distinctly and convincingly explain that gender is not just about women. And though this is surely true, the idea doesn’t seem to stick, or at least stick where we want it to.

Gender Quotas and Women’s Political Empowerment

Mona Lena Krook • Jun 18 2010 • Articles

Despite growth, women continue to constitute only 19% of all parliamentarians worldwide. Quotas are a diverse set of measures that can reach the political agenda for both feminist and non-feminist reasons, leading to diverse effects on the election and empowerment of women. Whilst necessary, more systematic research is needed in order to determine their impact on women as a group.

Global Householding: the Good, the Bad, and the Uncomfortable

V. Spike Peterson • Mar 30 2010 • Articles

Households are an enduring feature of human history. They are the building blocks of social formations in every era and at all scales: from small communities to the global economy. Feminists have produced an extensive body of research on households. But like domestic labor within households, this work rarely appears in mainstream accounts of economics, politics, or international relations (IR).

Gender Matters in International Relations

Laura J. Shepherd • Feb 20 2010 • Articles

Whether the issue at hand is security, global governance, nuclear proliferation, peacebuilding or international law, feminist scholars have written extensively about (how) gender matters in global politics and, further, argued that paying analytical attention to gender allows us a range of insights that ‘gender-blind’ approaches do not access.

Beyond Gender? A New Minister for a Transformative Post-Lisbon Agenda

Àngels Trias i Valls • Feb 10 2010 • Articles

Contemporary social discourses are relegating the need to keep fighting for gender equality, mistakenly thinking that perhaps ‘addressing’ gender is the same as ‘normalising’ gender politics. It is against this landscape that Lady Catherine Ashton becomes the first High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

A Fledgling Movement: Women and the Iranian election

Haideh Moghissi • Jun 27 2009 • Articles

This round of Iran’s pre-election politics was marked by the full-force entry of the Iranian women’s movement onto the political scene with a well-thought-out strategy that has mobilized many change-seeking individuals and groups within civil society.

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