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1
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Simply, what is feminist IR?

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studies and theories that are critical of masculinism and gender hierarchy

2
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What does feminist IR challenge?

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disciplinary narrowness and the role of gender within IR

3
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Is feminism just about women?

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no

4
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Feminism interrogates the power to ______________

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specify insiders-outsiders, movement agendas, and even the progressiveness of theory and practice that claim to be feminist

5
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Feminism looks at the masculine parts of ________

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militarism

6
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What kind of model of human nature does IR rely on?

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atomistic, self-serving acquisitive, competitive

this is seen in rational choice

7
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According to feminism what is IR based on/what norm/default?

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elite males in a modern european concert

this norm is seen as a default and was supposed to describe human nature everywhere

8
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T or F: the IR norm of masculinism is not flawed

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F

It’s problematic

9
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What things does Peterson believe are “masculinist constructs”? And why?

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sovereignty, national security, and military strength

believes they are not components of the international system that are neutral and rooted in human nature

10
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Who is the feminist scholar we studied?

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Peterson

11
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What are some questions that critique IR?

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Where do women fit into the stag hunt?

  • traditional version of the stag hunt doesn’t describe everyone
  • a domestic counter-part to stag hunt involves women, where women are impacted
  • “domestic arrangements” in state behaviour/human behaviour

How are women affected by war and military spending?
-civilian population, allocation of budget for war allocates less resources to key concerns for women

How do women fit into the global political economy?

  • domestic events are a part of IR, they affect decision-making
  • just because it is more hidden does not mean it’s not significant
12
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How do women “bear the burden of poverty”?

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they work formally, informally (black market/illegal or paralegal work), and domestically (usually unpaid and not considered)

13
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Describe what it means that women are “cheapened and flexible”

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they perform most cheap labour, working in factories/sweatshops in global south and in manufacturing

14
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what does the neo-liberal model cut?

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welfare, safety nets

elimination of subsidies (education, housing, healthcare)

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What does Cynthia Enloe’s book Bananas, Beaches, and Bases discuss?

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  • women’s unequal interactions with military power, colonial control, and the global economy
  • different ways women’s lives intersects with global phenomena

Ex:

  • local women’s employment became configured around overseas US military bases
  • sex trade

-feminist IR interacts unconventionally with IR

16
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What do rationalism and positivism claim to do, and what does this claim give rise to?

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  • inherently claim to be able to tell the “one true story”

- giving a falsely universalizing” perspective

17
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How does feminism interact with IR?

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  • many IR scholars have welcomed feminist IR as an addition to the main body
  • but “adding women” also exposes how IR theories “presupposes male experience and viewpoint”
  • “excluding women/femininity is a fundamental structuring principle of conventional thought, discourse, and theorizing”(peterson)
  • true feminist scholarship is transformative, disruptive
18
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What does gender as an analytical category show?

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how women and ‘femininity’ have been systematically cast to the side

19
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What does studying ‘gender’ allow for?

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  • studying femininity in contrast to masculinity as its socially constructed opposite
  • examining historical and power-laden “hierarchy of masculine-feminine as interdependent constructs”
20
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Describe the idea of feminizing the other

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  • links multiple oppressions
  • can show marginalization of not only ‘women’ but also nature, racialized minorities, effeminate men, and colonized ‘others’
21
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structural and cultural violence create __________

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societal norms of violence

22
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What societal norms of violence and structural and cultural violence entail?

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  • specifically targeting groups because of intolerance (ex. against women)
  • –these views align with the DPT
23
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norms of intolerance and inequality should lead to ________

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greater instances of violence

24
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though there are many forms of inequality, gender is a ___________

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“cross-cultural foundation of social inequality” (Caprioli)

25
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define exploitation in the context of gender and structural violence

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gender role lead to different possibilities for personal development

  • look at illiteracy rates
  • -in poorer countries, women are less literate; if resources are limited, boys will go to school
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define penetration in the context of gender and structural violence

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structural violence is maintained through socialization, stereotyping, and a constant threat of violence

27
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define fragmentation in the context of gender and structural violence

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women have fewer job opportunities outside the home

28
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define marginalization in the context of gender and structural violence

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these dynamics serve to enforce women’s “secondariness”

29
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nationalist movements invariably emphasize ________

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masculinized visions of glory(military victory)

-even women head of state doesn’t stop this from happening

30
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militarism is inherently ______

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patriarchal

-male hierarchy/chain of command

31
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more pluralistic and equal societies tend to also be more ______, which suggests _______

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gender-equal

suggests a causal relationship (even if it’s small)

32
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Does gender inequality just affect women?

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no, it has negative repercussions at the societal level

33
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higher fertility rates, lower education and economic opportunity are correlated with _________. This has a predictive quality: _________

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  • with higher levels of intrastate violence

- higher levels of gender inequality can predict future conflict

34
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studying society through a gendered lens shows us _____ , which shows that feminism transcends IR, and feminism in IR transcends the ___________

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shows us structural issues

transcends the typical understanding of gender