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Likewise, Zillah Eisenstein, editor of Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism (1978), writes that MacKinnon's "analysis of male power and the state appears overly determined and homogenous", ignoring that "liberal feminism has uncovered its own limitations via its own critiques of women of color, radical feminism, and so on."
Laura Elizabeth Sjoberg (born February 19, 1979) [3] [4] is an American feminist scholar of international relations and international security.Her work specializes in gendered interpretations of just war theory, feminist security studies, and women's violence in global politics.
State feminism is when the government or the state adopts policies that are beneficial to women's rights and the improvement of women's lives. [4] Scholars of state feminism look at the effectiveness of various government programs, and how they improve women's rights and their status in their localities. [5]
Gender and politics is an interdisciplinary field, drawing not just from political science and gender studies but also related fields such as feminist political thought, and peoples' gendered treatment is commonly seen as intersectionally linked to their entire social identity.
Feminism is a broad term given to works of those scholars who have sought to bring gender concerns into the academic study of international politics and who have used feminist theory and sometimes queer theory to better understand global politics and international relations as a whole.
In 2002–4, she carried out a Nuffield funded research project on tensions between sexual and cultural equality in the British courts. [5] [6]She later worked with Sawitri Saharso, Vrije Universiteit (Free University), Amsterdam, on a cross European collaboration (also funded by Nuffield) that has explored issues of gender and culture in their specifically European context.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) The Creation of Patriarchy (1986) Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989) Gender Trouble (1990) Sexual Personae (1990) Black Feminist Thought (1990) Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1993) Whipping Girl (2007) The Promise of Happiness (2010)
Feminist political theory is a recently emerging field in political science focusing on gender and feminist themes within the state, institutions and policies. It questions the "modern political theory, dominated by universalistic liberalist thought, which claims indifference to gender or other identity differences and has therefore taken its ...