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Course Content |
| Week 1 |
What is feminist research? Is it “still” relevant?
Hesse-Biber, Sharlene N. (2014). A Re-Invitation to Feminist Research. In Feminist Research Practice: A Primer (Second, pp. 1–13). SAGE Publication.
Ackerly, B. A., & True, J. (2020). A Feminist Research Ethics Explained. In Doing Feminist Research in Politi-cal and Social Science (Second, pp. 19–35). Bloomsbury Publishing. |
| Week 2 |
When Gender meets International Relations
Enloe, C. (2014). Gender makes the World Go Round: Where are the Women? In Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (Second, pp. 1–35). University of California Press.
Masters, C., & Zalewski, M. (2022). Feminist International Relations. In L. J. Shepherd, & C. Hamilton (Eds.), Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Politics. Routledge.
Griffiths, M., Roach, S. C., & Solomon, M. S. (2009). Feminism. In Fifty Key Thinkers in International Rela-tions (Second, pp. 279–302). Routledge. https://ir101.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/griffiths-1999-fifty-key-thinkers-in-international-relations.pdf |
| Week 3 |
Waves of Feminism (Presentation Week)
Kroløkke, C., & Sørensen, A. S. (2005). Three Waves of Feminism: From Suffrage to Grrls. In Gender Com-munications Theories and Analyses (pp. 1–23). Sage Publication.
Munro, E. (2013). Feminism: A Fourth Wave? Political Insight, 4(2), 22–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-9066.12021
Roberts, C., & Connell, R. (2016). Feminist theory and the global South. Feminist Theory, 17(2), 135–140. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700116645874
The Task: Presentation on the rise of the fourth wave of feminism |
| Week 4 |
Feminism Critique of traditional IR theory
Tickner, J. A. (1988). Hans Morgenthau’s Principles of Political Realism: A Feminist Reformulation. Millennium, 17(3), 429–440
Sjoberg, L. (2012). Gender, structure, and war: What Waltz couldn’t see. International Theory, 4(1), 1–38. Cambridge Core.
Weber, C. (1994). Good Girls, Little Girls, and Bad Girls: Male Paranoia in Robert Keohane’s Critique of Feminist International Relations. Millennium, 23(2), 337–349 |
| Week 5 |
Gender and the State
Kantola, J. (2007). The Gendered Reproduction of the State in International Relations. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 9(2), 270–283. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856x.2007.00283.x
TRUE, J. (2016). Bringing Back Gendered States Feminist Second Image Theorizing of International Rela-tions. In Revisiting Gendered States: Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations (pp. 33–50). Oxford University Press.
Zheng, W. (2005). “State Feminism”? Gender and Socialist State Formation in Maoist China. Feminist Stud-ies, 31(3), 519–551. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/20459044 |
| Week 6 |
Women and Nation
Yuval-Davis, N. (1997). Theorizing Gender and Nation. In Gender & Nation (p. Chapter 1). Sage Publication.
Chatterjee, P. (2019). Women and nation revisited. In Women Speak Nation. Routledge India.
Anand, D. (2022). Nationalism and Populism. In Gender Matters in Global Politics (p. Chapter 22). Routledge. |
| Week 7 |
ecurity Studies and Feminist Interventions
Sjoberg, L. (2016). What, and Where, is Feminist Security Studies? Journal of Regional Security, 11(2), 143–161. https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/2217-995X/2016/2217-995x1602143S.pdf
Basu, S. (2011). Security as Emancipation: A Feminist Perspective. In A. J. Tickner & L. Sjoberg (Eds.), Fem-inism and International Relations: Conversations about Past, Present and Future. Routledge. |
| Week 8 |
Midterm: Questionnaire/ Survey Preparation, Group Fieldwork and Insights
Design questions or survey around gender and public space, work-life, political views, indigenous communi-ties , to note some and conduct a mini-survey or oral history interview with women in local settings (e.g., market vendors, students, caregivers) |
| Week 9 |
Conflict, Violence and Women (Victims)- Part I
Cockburn, C. (2004). The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace. In W. Giles & J. Hyndman (Eds.), Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones (p. Chapter 2). University of California Press.
Soh, S. C. (2007). The Korean “comfort women” tragedy as structural violence. In G.-W. Shin, S.-W. Park, & D. Yang (Eds.), Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia (pp. 17–35). Routledge.
Menon, R., & Bhasin, K. (1998). Honourably Dead: Permissible Violence Against Women. In Borders & Boundaries: WOMEN IN INDIAS PARTITION (pp. 31–64). Rutgers University Press. |
| Week 10 |
Conflict, Violence and Women (Perpetrators)- Part 2
Ramachandran, S. (2005). Dying to be Equal: Militants. In F. Faizal, & S. Rajagopalan (Eds.), Women, Secu-rity, South Asia: A Clearing in the Thicket (pp. 154–176). Sage Publications.
Parashar, S. (2011). Gender, Jihad, and Jingoism 1: Women as Perpetrators, Planners, and Patrons of Mili-tancy in Kashmir. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 34(4), 295–317. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2011.551719
Deka, D. (2019). ‘Between underground and over ground: Narratives on the identity of women insurgents in Assam.’ Asian Ethnicity, 20(4), 469–485. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2019.1596737 |
| Week 11 |
Women as Agents ? : Peacebuilding, Leaders and International Institutions (Presenta-tion Week)
Shepherd, L. J. (2017). Women in UN Peacebuilding Discourse. In Gender, UN Peacebuilding, and the Politics of Space: Locating Legitimacy (pp. 104–128). Oxford University Press.
Justino, P., Mitchell, R., & Müller, C. (2018). Women and Peace Building: Local Perspectives on Opportuni-ties and Barriers. Development and Change, 49(4), 911–929. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12391
Liu, S.-J. S. (2018). Are Female Political Leaders Role Models? Lessons from Asia. Political Research Quarter-ly, 71(2), 255–269. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912917745162
Liu, S.-J. S. (2019). Cracking Gender Stereotypes? Challenges Women Political Leaders Face. Political Insight, 10(1), 12–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041905819838147
Bode, I. (2020). Women or Leaders? Practices of Narrating the United Nations as a Gendered Institution. International Studies Review, 22(3), 347–369. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viz004
Holmes, G., Wright, K. A. M., Basu, S., Hurley, M., Martin de Almagro, M., Guerrina, R., & Cheng, C. (2019). Feminist Experiences of ‘Studying Up’: Encounters with International Institutions. Millennium, 47(2), 210–230. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829818806429
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| Week 12 |
Feminism and International Political Economy
Peterson, V. S. (2006). How (the meaning of) gender matters in political economy. In A. Payne (Ed.), Key Debates in New Political Economy (pp. 79–105). Routledge.
Bastia, T., & Piper, N. (2019). Women migrants in the global economy: A global overview (and regional per-spectives). Gender & Development, 27(1), 15–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2019.1570734
Walters, R. (2022). Varieties of gender wash: Towards a framework for critiquing corporate social responsibil-ity in feminist IPE. Review of International Political Economy, 29(5), 1577–1600. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2021.1935295
Coburn, E. (2019). Trickle-down gender at the International Monetary Fund: The contradictions of “femina economica” in global capitalist governance. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 21(5), 768–788. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2019.1607764
Rai, S. M., & Waylen, G. (Eds.). (2014). NEW FRONTIERS IN FEMINIST POLITICAL ECONOMY. Routledge.
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| Week 13 |
Gender and Political Systems (Presentation Week)
PARTHASARATHY, R., RAO, V., & PALANISWAMY, N. (2019). Deliberative Democracy in an Unequal World: A Text-As-Data Study of South India’s Village Assemblies. American Political Science Review, 113(3), 623–640. Cambridge Core. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055419000182
KAPOOR, M., & RAVI, S. (2014). Women Voters in Indian Democracy: A Silent Revolution. Economic and Political Weekly, 49(12), 63–67. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24479328
ZHOU, Y. (2019). “Being a Good Daughter of the Party”? China Perspectives, 2 (117), 17–28. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26663917
HU, A. (2016). Half the Sky, But Not Yet Equal: China’s Feminist Movement. Harvard International Re-view, 37(3), 15–18. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26445831
Hwang, S., & Wu, W. (2019). Social capital and feminist power: Promoting gender mainstreaming in Taiwan. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 21(5), 724–745. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2019.1606724
Sjoberg, L., & Whooley, J. (2015). The Arab Spring for Women? Representations of Women in Middle East Politics in 2011. Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 36(3), 261–284. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2015.1050902
Catty, D., & Rabo, A. (2020). Formal and Informal Women’s Group in the Middle East. In D. Catty & A. Rabo (Eds.), Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Women’s Groups in the Middle East (pp. 1–22). Routledge |
| Week 14 |
Foreign Policy and Feminist Views
Achilleos-Sarll, C., Haastrup, T., & Thomson, J. (2025). The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Poli-cy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power. Politics & Gender, 21(3), 558–568. Cambridge Core. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X25100433
Aggestam, K., & True, J. (2020). Gendering Foreign Policy: A Comparative Framework for Analysis. Foreign Policy Analysis, 16(2), 143–162. https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orz026
Towns, A. E. (2020). ‘Diplomacy is a feminine art’: Feminised figurations of the diplomat. Review of Inter-national Studies, 46(5), 573–593. Cambridge Core. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210520000315
Obe, J. M. (2017). Women in foreign lands: Women diplomats and host- country cultures. In J. A. Cassidy (Ed.), Gender and Diplomacy (pp. 120–139). Routledge.
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| Week 15 |
Women, Human Rights and International Law
Edwards, A. (2011). Introduction. In Violence against Women under International Human Rights Law (pp. 1–32). Cambridge University Press.
Merry, S. E. (2006). Gender Violence and CEDAW Process. In Human Rights & Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (pp. 72–102). The University of Chicago Press.
Orta, L. C. G. (2025). The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW): From its radical preamble to its contemporary intersectional approach. Women’s History Review, 34(1), 79–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2023.2277490
Singh, S. (2017). Re-thinking the ‘Normative’ in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, 4(2), 219–238. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48602144
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| Week 16 |
Final Assignment (2000-2500)
Further Instructions would be provided in the class |
self-directed
learning |
01.Participation in professional forums, lectures, and corporate sharing sessions related to industry-government-academia-research exchange activities.
02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia.
05.Participation in various workshops organized by different departments of NCHU.
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