Volume XXXII – Number 1
Spike Peterson
Abstract: This article explores how gender-sensitive work opens new thinking spaces when theorizing politics/power, states, and globalization. It also explores how gender-based approaches benefits debates discussing traditionalism versus behaviorism and realism versus liberalism inter-paradigm debates. Women have been excluded from the public sphere of power due to circumstances such as the definition of the term “citizen,” masculine bias, and lack of knowledge. However, when looking at various feminist studies, one can understand that “adding women” to the sphere will not only benefit them but also to the general approach to analyzing IR theory and social theories.
Keywords: International Relation theory, Feminist Studies, Dichotomies, Sphere of power, Citizen, Masculine bias, Gender-based approach, Traditionalism, Behaviorism, Realism, Liberalism.
