what does an analisys from the feminist point of view add to security studies?

NAME : XXXXXX

TUTOR : XXXXXX

TITLE : CONTRIBUTION OF FEMINISM

SECURITY STUDIES COURSE : XXXXXX

INSTITUTION : XXXXXX 2009

Contributions of Feminism to Security studies

Introduction

The contribution of feminists to security studies have been described as four separate categories where the International Relation feminists query the hypothetical xistence and peripheral nature of women in international security politics , interrogate the extent to which women are secured by state protection in times of war and peace , critique the ever ever-existence assumption that gendered security practices address women only and contest the discourses

wherein women are linked unreflectively with peace . Feminists have conceptualized the core concepts like security , the state , violence , war and peace while at the same time uncovering new hardheaded knowledge about sexual violence in war , gendered participation in armed conflict as well as the masculinity of militarization (Carpenter , 2002 : 300 . International Relation feminists have studied specific empirical situations to deduce explanatory as well as ethical theories of International Relation . They have traversed the crisis in Bosnia , African peace keeping operations civil military relations in South Korea and the wars in Iraq

Though some of the emerging exemplar of human security as well as Copenhagen school stress the significance of individuals within the security issues they still fail to recognize

that not all individuals face those issues the same . Feminists have decided to make women noticeable as subjects in international security (Edkins Epstein , 1997 : 120 . They portray attention to the invisibility of female and gender subordination within the theory and practice of security politics...