POLS411 Gender and International Relations

6 ECTS - 3-0 Duration (T+A)- 7. Semester- 3 National Credit
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Unit FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PR. (ENGLISH)
Code POLS411
Name Gender and International Relations
Term 2018-2019 Academic Year
Semester 7. Semester
Duration (T+A) 3-0 (T-A) (17 Week)
ECTS 6 ECTS
National Credit 3 National Credit
Teaching Language İngilizce
Level Lisans Dersi
Type Normal
Label E Elective
Mode of study Yüz Yüze Öğretim
Catalog Information Coordinator Doç. Dr. MARELLA BODUR ÜN
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Course Goal / Objective

This course offers an introduction to a way of analyzing international relations that takes gender seriously as an analytical category. It intends to introduce students to feminist approaches to the study of global politics. It looks look at where women are in international practice and its theorization, and what it means to bring gender into the frame of international relations and its study. It aims to examine the implications for IR theory of taking feminism seriously, to illustrate what feminist approaches contribute to our understanding of issues in global politics.

Course Content

This course offers an introduction to a way of analyzing international relations that takes gender seriously as an analytical category. It aims to understand how gender matters in many facets of international relations such as war and peace, security, foreign policy, international economy, development, nationalism and identity and globalization.

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Course Learning Outcomes

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LO01 Examine and critique international relations and global processes from a gender perspective.
LO02 Identify and explore different strands of feminist IR theory
LO03 Demonstrate their knowledge of contributions of feminist IR scholarship on substantive issue areas in IR (such as war, peace, and security; international political economy and development; global governance and social movements etc)


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Week Plan

Week Topic Preparation Methods
1 Introduction A. Tickner ve Laura Sjoberg, Feminism, Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, Steve Smith (der.), International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 2nd ed, Oxford UP, 2010
2 Why Study Gender and International Relations Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, 1989, pp.1-18.
3 Sex, Gender and Global Politics V. Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan, Gender as a Lens on World Politics, in Peterson and Runyan, Global Gender Issues, Westview, 1993.
4 Feminist Encounters with IR I Marysia Zalewski, Feminist Theory and International Relations in M. Bowker and R. Brown (eds.) From Cold War to Collapse, 1993. Gillian Youngs, Feminist International Relations: a contradiction in terms, International Affairs 80,1: 75-87.
5 Feminist Encounters with IR II A.Tickner, You Just Dont Understand: Troubled Engagements between Feminists and IR Theorists, International Studies Quarterly 41, 4: 611-632. R.Keohane, Beyond Dichotomy: Conversations between IR and Feminist Theory, ISQ 42, 1: 193-198.
6 Feminist Perspectives on War, Peace and Security I V.S.Peterson, Security and Sovereign States: What Is at Stake in Taking Feminism Seriously, Peterson, ed., Gendered States, chp.1. Iris Young, The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current Security State, Signs, 29(1), 2003
7 Feminist Perspectives on War, Peace and Security II C.Cohn, Sex and Death in the Relational World of Defense Intellectuals, Signs 12, 4 (1987): 687-718. S.Cheldelin, Gender and Conflict: What Do We Know in Women, War and Violence, 2015.
8 Mid-Term Exam Cynthia Enloe, Base Women in Bananas, Beaches and Bases, 1989. Spike Peterson, Gendered Identities, Ideologies, and Practices in the Context of War and Militarism in Sjoberg and via (eds), Gender, War and Militarism
9 Gender, War and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives II M.Baaz and M.Stern, Why Do Soldiers Rape, International Studies Quarterly 53, 2 (2009), 495-518. Ç.AydınKoyuncu, Chechen Female Suicide Bombers, Alternatif Politika, 3 (2): 179-197.
10 Peacemaking and Peacekeeping: Feminist Perspectives Claire Duncanson, Forces for Good, Narratives of Military Masculinity in Peacekeeping Operations, International Feminist Journal of Politics 11:1 (2009), pp. 63-80.
11 Feminist Perspectives on Human Security Jennifer Lobasz, Beyond Border Security: Feminist Approaches to Human Trafficking, Security Studies 18, 2 (2009), pp.319-344.
12 Gender and Global Political Economy Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women,1996, chps 8, 9. Saskia Sassen, Counter-geographies of Globalization, Feminization of Survival, in Kriemild Saunders (ed.) Feminist Post-Development Thought, chp.4.
13 Gender and Global Governance Shirin Rai, Gendering Global Governance, International Feminist Journal of Politics 6.4 ( 2004) 579-601.
14 Global Women's Activism Myra M.Ferree, Globalization and Feminism: Opportunities and Obstacles for Activism in the Global Arena in Ferree and Tripp (eds), Global Feminism, 2006, C.Eschle and B.Maiguashca, Making Feminist Sense of the Global Justice Movement, chps 1, 2.
15 Review Review
16 Term Exams Exam
17 Term Exams Exam


Student Workload - ECTS

Works Number Time (Hour) Workload (Hour)
Course Related Works
Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) 14 3 42
Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 14 3 42
Assesment Related Works
Homeworks, Projects, Others 1 30 30
Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 0 0 0
Final Exam 1 26 26
Total Workload (Hour) 140
Total Workload / 25 (h) 5,60
ECTS 6 ECTS

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