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Gender, international relations and the case of the ILO*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

Sandra Whitworth
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Much of the work that has been done by feminist International Relations (IR) theorists thus far has been to critique the existing discipline for its obvious inattention to questions of women and gender. It is time now to turn to more substantive work and explore not only the ways in which gender is absent from the study of international relations, but to document also the ways in which gender informs the various institutions and practices of international relations. To this end, feminist analyses of political economy, militarism, state-building, diplomacy and so on have begun to emerge. The present study is part of this project and seeks to develop an account of gender and international organizations and then apply it to an illustrative study of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

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Review of International Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , October 1994 , pp. 389 - 405
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1994

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