Feminist IR Theory - Part 1

Columbia University students discussing feminism in International Relations theory

Category:

Education

Tags:

• columbia
• university
• international relations
• theory
• william bairamian
• conceptual foundations
• mohini datt

[MrPunnoosej]

IR is a field that creates job security through difficult terminology. If you remove the difficult terminology, any lay person could easily understand International Relations. This is the sad state of higher education today. IR is not the only field that has this problem.

[vbritsi]

I want to know why this is even being discussed seriously by professionals in the field. If I were a diplomat, the last thing in the world I'd want is for some radical special interest group to stick its nose in international affairs. I would be afraid of causing the U.S. international embarrassment. This outrageous nonsense has to stop. Modern feminism is nothing but a leftist agitation movement for angry women.

[notalepricon]

@flipflop8406 This is still only a part of what feminism as a theory of IR is attempting to accomplish. Feminism is just as much about how the world perceives Women and gender, not only about how women can be included into that world. Why have women been ostracized in the first place? To what extent should we separate sex (biological) and gender (social) in our analysis? How does gendering the various issues in our world effect our understanding of them?

[nutcrakerz]

@vbritsi wrong. You misunderstand feminist theory as feminism in its nazi extremes. Feminist theory is about empowering and voicing the marginalized and exposing the assumptions all other classical theories rest upon, which are essentially derived from 18th century social contract theory - which excluded women in the first place. Social contract theory was based on Reason - a concept introduced based on male experiences.

[flipflop8406]

To vbritsi: Here are the issues of feminism today: equal pay, equal representation in politics, abortion, violence against women, objectification and ideaolization in the media. Does feminism really need to die?

[vbritsi]

It is time for feminism to stop sticking its nose into every little aspect of our lives. Actually, it is time for feminism to die, period.