Feminist security studies is a subdiscipline of security studies that draws attention to gendered dimensions of security.[1]
Feminist security studies (FSS) is the study of the various forms and implications of security through a gendered lens.[2] As a sub-discipline of international relations (IR) and security studies, FSS aims to understand and analyse how issues such as militarisation, war, gender, race, economics and power politics intersect in states and globally.
Building on established themes within security studies such as war, conflict, organised violence and peace, FSS examines how social constructions of gender has an impact on how these themes operate institutionally and structurally.[3] As an area of enquiry, FSS places significant focus on how gender plays a role in shaping decisions, ideas and theories in security studies, in particular the role and expectations of men and women.[4] FSS analysis of above themes and issues can be categorised both as micro- such as understanding the impact of gender in securitisation perceptions on a daily basis, and macro- recognising the structural and societal constructions that have led to security studies being a masculinised field.[5] FSS gained institutionalised and academic recognition as the field of security studies received greater interest during the Cold War.[6] Academics such as Cynthia Enloe studied and critiqued the field of international relations for the lack of intersectionality with issues such as gender despite the impact it has.[7]
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:8was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Enloe, Cynthia (1 January 2004). "III 'Gender' is not enough: the need for a feminist consciousness". International Affairs. 80 (1): 95–97. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2346.2004.00370.x. ISSN 0020-5850.