Feminist Cognitive Contribution in the Field of International Relations

Proceedings of ‏The 2nd Global Conference on Women’s Studies

Year: 2021

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Feminist Cognitive Contribution in the Field of International Relations

Lameaa Jabbar Attia

 

ABSTRACT: 

The feminist approach has been able to strongly appear in the field of international relations by its important hypothesis “gender”, which has clarified the dichotomy in the whole world, especially within the field of international relations. Besides ,it was also able to add many notes on the most outstanding concepts of the field as in topics of “peace, security and war” and criticized the hypotheses both realist theory and liberal theory regarding these concepts by highlighting and confirming the marginalization that occurred within these theories concerning with many important topics within the field of international relations, including “gender” as well as the feminist cognitive contribution within the field of international relations.

Keywords: IR Theory; Feminism; Theorizing in IR.