Feminism and International Relations

Download or read book Feminism and International Relations written by Sandra Whitworth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critique of the discipline of international relations from a feminist perspective. The critique is developed, first theoretically. Then the author examines both feminist theories and theories of international relations with a view to developing an approach to world politics which incorporates an analysis of gender, and gender relations. The critique is secondly developed through the application of the notion of gender to the activities of two international institutions, the International Parenthood Federation and the International Labour Organisation.