ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLER TEORİLERİ II

Liberal feminism advocates for equality between the sexes through social and political reforms, and legal means; they argue that only with the attainment of equal rights between men and women, feminism can reach its objective. The correct answer is C.

Marxist feminism asserts that the oppressed status of women can be attributed to the unequal treatment at both the workplace and in the house. The correct answer is B.

Radical feminism refers to the necessity of changing and strengthening the role of women in the production system of the society in the process of establishing a new societal order in which gender-based division of labor is defied to the highest degree. The correct answer is C.

Postmodern feminism rejects the assertions of liberal feminist approach and attempts to deconstruct realist interpretations of IR in order to uncover the concealed yet existent influences of gender. The correct answer is C.

Postcolonial feminism has developed as a response to feminism focusing solely on the experiences of women in Western cultures. The correct answer is E.

In contrast to the other feminist typologies, cultural feminism overlooks developments in political sphere and focuses on cultural sphere instead. The correct answer is D.

The publication of Millennium as the first journal in the subfield of feminism in 1988, with a special issue on women and international relations, symbolizes the attempts of feminist IR scholars to change the genderblind tendency of IR studies. The correct answer is D.

Cyntia Enloe is one of the most prominent feminist scholars, best known for her work on gender and the role of women. Her work Bananas, Beaches and Bases (1989) is considered as one of the upmost works on feminist international relations. The correct answer is B.

In her work Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security, Tickner applies various feminist perspectives to international politics and calls to mind the constructive criticisms of mainstream IR theories such as realism, liberalism and Marxism. The correct answer is A.

Sylvester puts forward three kinds of epistemologies: i) empiricism and liberalism; ii) standpoint and radical-cultural politics, and iii) social feminist practice and postmodern skepticism. The correct answer is B.

Feminism problematizes the gender relations within the research framework. The correct answer is A.

The roots of modern feminism go back to Mary Wollstonecraft’s work titled A Vindication of the Rights of Women published in 1792, in which the author argued that women should leave the private sphere and take an active part in the public sphere instead. Wollstonecraft’s work principally regarded as a reaction to Rousseau’s work Emile in which he legitimizes different sets of educational and behavioral standards for girls and boys. The answer is B.

Patriarchy is a system in which females are subordinate to men in terms of power and status. The answer is C.

“Masculinity” signifies the qualities or attributes regarded as typical characteristics of men and menly behaviors, “femininity” involves distinctive characteristics or behaviors associated with women. The answer is D.

Radical feminists support the idea of dismissing the patriarchal societal structure and suggest the establishment of a matriarchal order in which women would not have a secondary legal status. The answer is E.

Cultural feminism stresses that the male supremacist culture is the main problem of courses of actions defining women by men. The answer is A.

The epistemological categories of feminism involve empirical feminism, analytical feminism, and normative feminism. The answer is B.

Cyntia Enloe is one of the most prominent feminist scholars, best known for her work on gender and the role of women. Her work Bananas, Beaches and Bases (1989) is considered as one of the upmost works on feminist international relations. The answer is A.

J. Ann Tickner retreated the six principles of political realism outlined by Hans J. Morgenthau. The answer is E.

Liberal feminists argue that only with the attainment of equal rights between men and women, feminism can reach its objective. The answer is A.