Feminism in International Relations

1. General Discussion
Your views

2. Who is best?
Man or Women

3. Who deserves Public life?
Man or Women

4. What you say ?
Women are subordinate to
men.

5. What you say?
Man = Women

6. Does Women Deserve
These rights?
Education, Social, Political,
Economical and Legal

7. What is your topic of the
day?

8. Feminism

9. Definition
“Feminism is fundamentally rooted in an
analysis of the global subordination of
women which can occur economically,
politically and socially and is dedicated to its
elimination”. (Beylis.p.191)

10. Feminists have being
trying to understand
what women are saying
and doing, rather than
relying on what men are
saying and doing.

11. Focus of South
Women
If you don’t have access
to clean water or daily
meals, what does formal
legal equality really
means?

12. Historical Background
World Conference on Women 1975
 World Plan of Action
 Declaration of Mexico
 Title IX

13. Historical Background
Abolitionist Movement
 Suffragist Movement

14. First-wave of
feminist movement
(1890’s to 1960)
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A
Vindication of the Rights
of Woman is regarded
as the earliest and the
foundation work of
feminist movement

15. First-wave of
feminist movement
The focus of the first
phrase of the
movement is on
acquisition of rights that
was reserved for men,
such as the right to
work and most
importantly, the right to
vote
1932 Soviet poster
for International
Women’s Day

16. Second-wave
Feminist Movement
(1960s-1990s)
Carol Hanisch’s essay “The Personal is
Political” is the representation of
second-wave feminism.
“Women’s Liberation” is the slogan of the
second-wave movement

17. •Second-wave feminism
also drew attention to the
issues of domestic
violence,and women's
shelters, and brought
about changes in custody
laws and divorce law.
Second-wave

18. Marxist Approach
towards Women
Neither States nor
household distribute
resources and
opportunities equally btw
men and women
Paid-Unpaid Labour

19. Equilibrium in terms of
representation
Women have long been absent from
institutions of states and global
governance. Representation of women
is one of the ways that the UN
measures the degree of inequality
within and across states.

20. UN Progress Report
Global Earning of Women was 24%
US Women’s Earning was 78% of Every
Dollar
African American’s Earning was 64% of
every Dollar
Latinas women earned 56%
The worldwide earning of women was
75% of unpaid labour in the home
In 2015 eleven women remained head of
state while 60% remained illiterate.

21. Let’s discuss
Realist Approach vs
Feminist Approach

22. Three types of
Feminism
 Liberal Feminism
 Radical Feminism
 Critical Feminism

23. Liberal Feminism
Liberal Feminist theorist advocate that the rights and
presentation conventionally granted to men be extended
to women.
 It focuses on the change of institutions to increase
women representation at national and international
governance.
While it also demand changes in laws and allow
women’s participation.
Inequality and discrimination among women are the
root cause of violence. There exist gender inequality
which can be ended when women get the same rights as
men, through legal, political, educational and other
reforms within the existing system.

24. Radical Feminism
 Men are responsible for benefits from
exploitation of women
 They held Patriarchy responsible
 Radical Feminist demand the over throw of
Patriarchy rather than reformatory changes
within the system
 They try to develop sisterhood

25. Critical Feminism
 Patriarchy is the social cause
 Economic disparity is the mean cause
 They support Marxist theories, Oppose
Capitalism
 the Cause of gender inequality is Paid and
Unpaid labour
 Devaluation of women’s work
 to change the society as whole
 Improve condition of individuals