You Just Don T Understand By Anne Tickner Summary

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“The woman’s mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities”(Adams,2013.).In her essay ,“You Just Don’t Understand :Troubled Engagement Between Feminists And IR Theorists”, author Anne Tickner,offers an in-depth analysis on issues facing feminists in the world of IR.Anne suggests different approaches that will facilitate a better relationship and understanding issues affecting feminists in IR. Tickner, uses a liberal ideology to approach issues affecting feminists in IR.Tickner in attempting to create feminist issues in IR.Tickner focused on two major issues that has caused …show more content…

As Tickner suggests that, IR theorist should begin to reevaluate how social construction has affected the perception of women in IR.Furthermore,Tickner suggests that the evidence of a masculine hegemony has impacted how women are perceived in IR.Again Tickner suggests that, the implication of lack of understanding among IR theorist could potentially affect the role of feminists in IR.As liberalist theorists whose goal is to attempt to blur the line between what the role of a male or female should be Tickner attempts to use …show more content…

Similarly as the author suggests that masculine ideology is imbedded in IR.Femminists liberalists argue that unequal gender relation are important for sustaining the military activites,Feminist liberalists challenge this idea that the role of women is indeed relevant in military forces. Feminist liberalists belief that women can also play positive role in military forces countering the misogynist training of male soldiers to kill. As most feminists liberals takes gender which embodies relationships of power in equality as its central category for analysis.Tickner suggests that women are stereotypes of social norms produced in a csociety.Tickner suggests that women are seen as weak and needing protection and therefore they are weak an unable to make the right decisions, this assumptions.Tickner believes is a construction

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