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Cynthia Sylvester, a renowned scholar of political science, focuses on the historical development of feminist efforts in integrating gender and gender relations into the study of international relations (Sylvester, 2010; 2002; 1994a, 1994b). For the most part, Sylvester explores the “three debates” in the context of feminist theorizing with particular emphasis on empirical and post-modernist stances of knowledge construction. Accordingly, Sylvester puts forward three kinds of epistemologies as: i) empiricism and liberalism; ii) standpoint and
radical-cultural politics; and iii) social feminist practice and postmodern scepticism (Sylvester, 1994a).