INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Feminist Scholarship and Challenges to Conventional International Relations Theory

Feminist Scholarship and Challenges to Conventional International Relations Theory

Introduction

The conventional way of working has changed extensively throughout the world. Initially the concept about the domination of males was well spread throughout the world. However, in the modern times, equal importance has been given to the females who have proved themselves to be equal to their male counterparts throughout the world. In order to better understand about how the role of feminist scholarship in the context of International Relations Theory, an in depth discussion regarding the relevant factors is required.

Discussion

The Role of Females within International Relations, an ever Unsettled Issue

Feminism has always been treated as a big issue when it comes to the acceptance of the importance of females within the major nations of the world. On the platform of International Relations, certain problems and issues are treated as being primary to the requirements of their vital tasks and are referred to as being amongst the mainstream discussions (Tickner, 1992, p. 47).

Moreover, looking at the current activities of the International Relations committees, the fact is becoming visible that slowly and gradually the issue of the introduction of feminist International Relations is becoming more popular.

Ladies are excessively underrepresented in Political Science, however considerably more so in the field of International Relations and particularly at its most noteworthy ranks. Besides, ladies have a tendency to research distinctive points than men and instruct in uniquely distinctive courses from their male counterparts.

Differences in the Feminist Ways of Working

The females in majority of world's societies have been subject to rejection and suppression majorly because the way in which they think and choose to work. Where men are extremely strong in their mental abilities and personalities, females have a stronger power in their emotional stability.

Females think more through their heart while men are using their brains most of the times. This is the only thing that makes females a threat in the eyes of the men of the eastern world with reference to International Relations. The feminist supporters represent the idea that if females are provided an opportunity to contribute within the national and international politics; chances are that the overall stability, intelligence level and competitiveness of the nation would increase (Butler, 1990, p. 85).

However, on the other side of the table, countering nations survive on an extremely set of concepts because they believe that leadership is the right of males and nobody can do it better than them.

Feminist Scholarship: A light in the Darkening World

In order to promote the role of females within the international relationships between countries, different steps have been taken by the supporters of feminism in International Relations. With the passage of time, majority of people have adopted the concept that females could and should stand equal to the males and the power, domination and authority should be shared between both the genders i.e. males and females.

Provision of scholarship to the females is a sign of the fact that females would be finally treated as ...