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The previous two chapters examined the possible avenues through which an international relations theory which is sensitive to gender might be constructed. The strengths and weaknesses of both feminist theory and international relations theory have been examined, and it has been argued that, while often limited, there are some spaces within each which would permit such an analysis. The purpose of this chapter is to describe more fully the feminist IR theory proposed here and to locate the study of gender and international relations within the more specific study of international organisation.
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These terms have been taken from Jane Jenson, ‘Paradigms and Political Discourse: Protective Legislation in France and the United States Before 1914’, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 22 (2), June 1989, pp. 235–58.
‘Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory’, in Linda J. Nicholson (ed.), Feminism/Postmodernism (New York: Routledge, 1990), p. 44.
See also Mark Neufeld, ‘Interpretation and the “Science” of International Relations’, Review of International Studies, 19, 1993, p. 44.
For this example, I am grateful to Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (London: Pandora, 1989), chapter. 8.
Philip Abrams, Historical Sociology (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1982), p. xiii.
Joan W. Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), p. 43.
Harold K. Jacobson, Networks of Interdependence: International Organizations and the Global Political System 2nd ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), pp. 4–5 and chapter one.
See also Lyman Cromwell White, International Non-Governmental Organizations: Their Purposes, Methods and Accomplishments (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1951), pp. 3–4
Werner J. Feld and Robert S. Jordan, International Organizations: A Comparative Approach (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983), chapter 1.
Robert W. Cox, ‘Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method’, Millennium, 12(2), Summer 1983, p. 172.
R.W. Cox, ‘The Crisis of World Order and the Problem of International Organization in the 1980s’, International Journal, 35(2), Spring 1980, p. 375.
Ibid., p. 380. See also Mark Neufeld, ‘Interpretation and the “Science” of International Relations’, Review of International Studies, 19, 1993, pp. 54–6.
See Robert W. Cox, ‘Ideologies and the New International Economic Order’, International Organization, 33, 1979.
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Whitworth, S. (1994). Gender and International Organisation. In: Feminism and International Relations. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23572-8_4
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