Citation

Squires J, Weldes J. Br. J. Polit. Int. Relat. 2007; 9(2): 185-203.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Political Studies Association, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-856X.2007.00289.x

PMID

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Abstract

In this introduction, we situate ‘gender and international relations in Britain’. We discuss our understandings of gender, I/international R/relations and GIR. In the second section we discuss the relationship of feminist to gendered IR, arguing that while intimately related, they are nonetheless not synonymous. We turn in the third section to a critical discussion of feminist IR's tendency to see itself as marginal to mainstream IR, a move that contributes to the marginalisation it laments. In the fourth section we compare the development of GIR with gender in Politics, which has been less concerned from the outset with issues of marginality. In the final section we argue that GIR has come into its own, introducing the articles in this issue as instances of self-assured gendered analyses of ‘things international’.