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Article: Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
- Author:
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Gendered States provides an important critique of international relations theory by problematizing one of the theory's most central and privileged concepts, the state. The book provides critical analysis and deconstruction of the relationship between gender and a number of global issues, including security, sovereignty, and revolution. The contributors uncover the centrality of the too-little-questioned conceptualization of the state to traditional international relations theory and unmask the gendered privileges that states accord select men. Many problems associated with international-relations theory's conceptualization of the state--including how the state oppresses, ...