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Why a Feminist Theorist Studies Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2009

Brooke Ackerly
Brooke Ackerly
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Vanderbilt University
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What are the injustices of the world? What causes them? How might we mitigate them? Feminism needs empirical inquiry in all subfields to inform our understanding of the world and our normative reflections on it. Feminist theorists do not necessarily need to do it ourselves, but we do need it. Because we need empirical research, we need to be able to evaluate its methodology. In international relations, feminist scholars adopt and develop methods previously developed in other fields for nonfeminist questions. Feminist theorists need to evaluate this adoption and development by feminist IR in order to learn all we can and should from feminist IR scholarship.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Politics & Gender , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , September 2009 , pp. 431 - 436
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2009

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