ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an account of how lenses work and why they matter in a general sense. It provides an extended discussion on what constitutes the power of gender and how it constitutes a meta-lens that structures world politics lenses. The chapter turns to feminist world politics lenses that challenge gendered inequalities and the power of gender as a meta-lens, or hegemonic worldview. It considers how gendered divisions of power, violence, and labor and resources are crosscut by ethnicity/race, class, sexuality, and nation-based inequalities. The chapter also considers how the systemic reproduction of these interlocking inequalities generates global crises of representation, insecurity, and sustainability. It argues that international relations inquiry and the understandings of and priorities in world politics promoted by its dominant perspectives have not been immune to the power of gender as a meta-lens. There are many lenses through which world politics has been viewed in history and in the contemporary context.
