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Gender and Sexuality
Gender-Based Violence in South Africa: A Crisis of Masculinity?
The ‘crisis of masculinity’ thesis focuses solely on changing gender relations in post-apartheid South Africa, and is inadequate for explaining the high level of gender-based violence.
Developmental States and Gender-Equity
The Developmental State is usually regarded as one of the most successful models for economic growth. But that model’s success is built upon gender inequalities that hinder progress for women.
Aid Conditionality and Sexual Rights in the Third World
The current human rights framework, while tackling sexual rights, fails to take local contexts into account, thus increasing discrimination and limiting the impact of local activists.
Would More Female Leadership Lead to Less Global Conflict?
An increased focus on communication and reconciliation over individualism could have the potential to bring a more peaceful orientation to foreign policy issues.
How Significant is Feminism’s Contribution to IR?
Feminist theorists aim to expose gender biases in IR theories, transforming our understanding of central concepts, and reconstructing gender-neutral outlooks of international politics.
The Feminist Perspectives on Power
Feminist theories highlight how traditional concepts of power concentrate on masculine notions of power as domination and disregard power emerging from the margins of society.
Gender Security as a Category of International Politics
The gendered approach uncovers information through non-traditional sources, and can tell theorists more about a conflict or national sentiment than regular statistics and game theory.
A Gendered Approach to Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution
The need for a gendered approach to peacebuilding has been acknowledged, but the link between rhetoric and policy implementation remains questionable.