POLS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Post-Structuralism, Postpositivism, Antipositivism
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Feminist understandings in ir theory fall under interpretivism (also called post-positivism) Latin america views on ir from different cultural, political, ethnic and social positions. What is gender? associated what is means to be masculine or feminine: feminist scholars argue that gender is a primary way in which we signify. In other words, there are gender hierarchies image. How does it differ from the other perspectives at which we have looked: many ir feminists focus on the emancipatory goal of achieving equality for women via the elimination of unequal gender relations. Feminists differ is what they see as the solution to gendered inequalities depending on which approach they take. In ir, as in political science, power is usually defined as power-over, specifically, the ability to get someone to do what you want. Does it make sense to view the patriarchal state as the.