Feminist International Relations and Wartime Rape. Feminist Writings´ Contribution to Women´s Rights

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Politics - General and Theories of International Politics, grade: 2, Aston University, language: English, abstract: The goal of this essay is to examine feminist contributions to international relations theory in the context of wartime rape. In the first part of this essay, the author will discuss what feminist IR theory can be and what it means in this piece. In order to evaluate feminist contributions, it is necessary to lay out some groundwork. Therefore she will then go on to outline the gendered violence that happened during the Bosnian war and will also explain some of the moral-theory that dominates certain IR theories, because questions of humanity are questions of morals. Concluding this essay, the author take a look at international legislature concerning this topic, seeing how surprisingly enough, it is very close to some schools of IR theory specifically Realism. Before doing so, she will then put feminist IR theory in relation to mainstream IR theory against the background of wartime rape in Bosnia, although she touches upon this throughout this piece.