CEVAP:

Feminism is the belief in the social, economic, and political equality of men and women. In its own right, feminism is considered to be a part of the cause of making women more visible. Whilst doing so, feminism provides that women have been absent from decision-making and institutional structures that represent the public sphere indicating that they have been mostly present in
the private sphere (Smith, 2017: 62-63; Tickner and Sjoberg, 2011).

Equally, feminist IR represents not only how international politics influences men and women but also how it is influenced by them. Despite the dissensus among different feminist approaches in IR, all of them accommodate certain central
components that can be regarded as common feminist traits. These involve:

i) the centrality of the concept of “gender” in debates and discussions on feminism;

ii) the problematization of gender relations within research framework;

iii) the formulation of hypothesis that gender relations are not intangible; and

iv) the belief that feminism is a form of commitment to change and/or transition.