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Queer feminist international relations: uneasy alliances, productive tensions

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posted on 2023-06-09, 08:22 authored by Darcy LeighDarcy Leigh
This article examines the ‘uneasy alliance’ between Feminist IR and Queer IR. The article focusses on three areas of tension and continuity between the fields: (1) sexuality, sexual deviance and gender variance; (2) the roles of liberalism in gendered, sexualized and racialized violence; and (3) binaries relating to sex, gender and sexuality. The article argues that it is around tensions between Queer and Feminist IR that a Queer Feminist IR can be productively articulated. In particular, a Queer Feminist IR should: centre women and femmes as well as sexuality and gender variance; disrupt of binaries and fixed identities without losing the political leverage that sometimes comes with them; and acknowledge entanglements with the institutions Feminist and Queer IR seek to transform while also resisting being neutralized by assimilation.

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Publication status

  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Alternatif Politika

ISSN

1309-0593

Issue

3

Volume

9

Department affiliated with

  • Law Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-10-20

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-11-08

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-10-20

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