This presentation looks at the richness and variety of IR feminist thought. It examines how and why feminism has become increasingly relevant in international relations scholarship from the end of the Cold War period onwards. Moreover, it looks at how feminist theories use gender as a socially constructed category to critique the categories and hierarchies that exist in global politics. There is also a range of feminist approaches - liberal, constructivist, critical theory, post-structuralist and post-colonial - that are touched upon.
