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/Womanism/Feminism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Want to take down the patriarchal view. "Unlike other radicals, who point to the structure of the international economic system as determinant of international relations, radical feminists define the problem as overarching patriarchy" (M-EM, 92)
        
        "For example, to the extent males tend to frame problems as dichotomous, gender suggests a hierarchy of associations that often lead states to give unwarranted or counterproductive priority to armed conflict as the core meaning of “security.” Some countries are “feminine” or “childlike,” and therefore in need of guidance or discipline from “masculine” or “grown-up” states (e.g., Britain or Germany)" (M-EM, 94).
- - - - "For radical feminists women are capable to display masculine characteristics and vice-versa. According to Simon de Beauvoir, gender is a system of social hierarchy in which masculine characteristics are more valued than the feminine and gender is a structure that signifies unequal power relationships between males and females" (Kumar, 253).
  - - - She argues that women are naturally inferior to men is not the main reason for their plight rather it is a lack of proper education because men and women were provided different types of education since their childhood and they both had different mental faculties and statuses. Thus, the chief difference between both the sexes was not natural but brought about by differences in their upbringing, and most specifically this difference was maintained by their educational practices.
  - - - "Women's experiences in war, conflict, and diplomacy are either ignored because it is subsumed under 'universal' (or so-called male) experience or are not acknowledged or recognized. As Judith Ann Tickner claims, IR is gendered to ‘marginalize women's voices’, and women have knowledge, perspectives, and experiences that should be brought to include in the study of IR" (Kumar, 247).
        
        "The realist idea that nation-states are selfish and always seek power first is borrowed from a Hobbsian logic of ‘Human Nature" (Kumar, 247).