Do you reckon international relations shaped by gender? ?
I know feminists go on about how everything is a ‘man’s world’ etc etc but do you think politics are dominated by ideas of masculinity too? In what ways?
No that was said by the late James Brown,R.I.P. If you would think war is the province of men then diplomacy must be the province of women. Years ago beauty, guile, deceit, compromise were thought to be attributes of women. while bravery, courage and godlike were thought as for men. Today we know those lines are blurred by real people making success and failures in political situations. All governments have been served by both women and men. The late Prime Minister Margaret Thacther once told then Pres.Ronald Reagan “to have some backbone” in making decisions. Remember to have an education and child welfare department could only have come from the work and courage of woman, yes.
International Human Rights & Feminist Critique — Rey Ty
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