Queer Feminist International Relations: Uneasy Alliances, Productive Tensions
This article examines the ‘uneasy alliance’ between Feminist IR and Queer IR. The article focuses on three areas of tension and continuity between the fields: (1) sexuality, sexual deviance and gender variance; (2) the roles of liberalism in gendered, sexualized and racialized violence; and (3) bina...
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| Language: | English |
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Rasim Özgür Dönmez
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Alternatif Politika |
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| Online Access: | http://alternatifpolitika.com/site/cilt/9/sayi/3/3-Darcy-Leigh-Queer-Feminist-International-Relations.pdf |
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| Summary: | This article examines the ‘uneasy alliance’ between Feminist IR and Queer IR. The article focuses on three areas of tension and continuity between the fields: (1) sexuality, sexual deviance and gender variance; (2) the roles of liberalism in gendered, sexualized and racialized violence; and (3) binaries relating to sex, gender and sexuality. The article argues that it is around tensions between Queer and Feminist IR that a Queer Feminist IR can be productively articulated. In particular, a Queer Feminist IR should: centre women and femmes as well as sexuality and gender variance; disrupt of binaries and fixed identities without losing the political leverage that sometimes comes with them; and acknowledge entanglements with the institutions Feminist and Queer IR seek to transform while also resisting being neutralized by assimilation. |
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| ISSN: | 1309-0593 |