Feminist Critiques against Traditional Approaches to Security

Feminism security national security hegemonic masculinity

Authors

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): Global Strategis
Jurnal Global & Strategis 9.1 2015
February 22, 2018

Downloads

Feminists claim that national security is a model of masculinity domination,
which hardly disputes. This essay addresses feminists critique on notion of
conventional security and provides feminists own definition. It shows that
feminists adopt comprehensive approach in relation to security. They tend to
define security in a broad term to accomodate contemporary issues. They also
propose neutral concept of security to demonstrate that security is not
exclusively men's business.