Knocking Down Walls in Political Science: In Defense of an Expansionist Feminist Agenda

In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 411-426

Abstract

AbstractThis article offers one possible answer to the question "What is the future of feminist political science?" by outlining and defending an expansionist agenda that is centred on challenging the male-female binary that has been upheld and replicated in the discipline to date. Such an approach draws heavily on the insights of intersectional analyses, transgender, queer and gender-fluid articulations of identity and requires that the field of political science investigate the varied and complex gendered experiences of "men." Overall, this article argues that such as expansionist agenda is key to responding to the interrelated challenges presented by the perceived "crisis" of feminism and the ongoing "masculinity" of the discipline of political science.