Posted: January 4th, 2016

Can feminism be considered a mainstream theory of International Relations?

Topic: Can feminism be considered a mainstream theory of International Relations?

My conclusion: feminism still cannot be considered a mainstream theory of IR, however gender analysis can be incorporated into constructivism that would provide us a better IR theory.

Introduction
・Why does feminism cannot be considered a mainstream IR?

Background-definition of gender and feminism

Feminist approaches to IR and how gender relates to the study of international politics

Mainstream IR (traditional IR) perspective about feminism:
ex) Robert Keohane, Adam jones..etc
・Analysis of mainstream IR
Criticism of mainstream IR

Feminist perspective (feminism contributes to mainstream IR):
ex) Tickner, Weber, Steans…etc
・Analysis of feminism
Criticism of feminism

Solution: gender analysis can be incorporated into mainstream constructivism
Why? How?
・Analysis

Conclusion

Bibliography
Carpenter, C, (2003), Gender and International Relations, International Studies Review, Vol 5 (2) 297-300
Carpenter, C, (2002), Gender Theory in World Politics: Contributions of a Nonfeminist Standpoint?, International Studies Review, Vol 4 No.3, pp153-165
Carver, T, (2003), Gender and International Relations, International Studies Review, Vol 5(2), 288-291
Jones, A (1996), Does Gender make the world go round? Feminist critiques of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Vol 22 (4), 405-429