Volume 3 | Issue 4
Volume 3 | Issue 4
Volume 3 | Issue 4
Volume 3 | Issue 4
Volume 3 | Issue 4
Women had an important status in the Islamic religion, but their rights were not the same in other societies. Throughout human history, women have suffered from the oppression practiced against them. As a result, feminist movements emerged in Western societies demanding their rights. So, feminism is the theory that advocates for the political, economic, and social equality between sexes, and as a political movement, it seeks to achieve women's rights and interests, and to eliminate the sexism that women suffer from. Three main trends in feminist theory can be distinguished: First- The Individualist Liberal Feminist Movement: It calls for the liberation of women based on the principle of identical equality between men and women, and the principle of absolute freedom for women, granting them all their rights, most importantly the right to vote, education, and economic independence. Second- The Marxist Feminist Movement: It views society as being built from the relationships that people form during their work. It focused on class contradictions and it believed that the ideal solution lies in the success of socialist revolutions and the elimination of the class system. Third- The Radical Feminist Movement: Radicalism emphasizes the patriarchal roots of inequality between men and women. It views patriarchy primarily as rights, privileges, and power separated by sex. It tends to question political action within the current system, focusing instead on cultural change that undermines patriarchal authority. Feminist theory also has contributions to international relations. When feminism emerged in Western democratic systems, it was a political movement inspired by the belief in equality between men and women. However, while it focused in its early stages on recognizing gender equality, it later transformed into a cognitive model for understanding the field of international politics from a gender perspective. The philosophy of gender is based on the idea that the divisions and roles assigned to men and women, as well as the differences between them, and even the perceptions and ideas related to how the male views himself and the female, and how the female views herself and the male, etc… All are made by society and its culture. That is, all of it is artificial and therefore can be changed. Feminists used gender analysis to uncover the bias in core concepts of international relations, such as power and security, and argued that this bias not only shaped its theoretical applications but also had specific consequences on the practice of international relations. The goal of feminist theory is to integrate women into politics by removing the exploitation they face from patriarchal authority, whether it is the authority of the father or the husband, establishing a place for them as both theorists or even decision-makers, and providing an alternative to international politics, which has been gendered in favour of men. From an epistemological standpoint, it has brought alternatives by reformulating new hypotheses for international relations, particularly through its critique of classical realist theory, viewing it as a gendered, unclear theory that relies on power, in contrast to feminist theory, which relies on a peaceful view of international relations based on cooperation.