ABSTRACT
Feminism is a political movement for change, and feminist theories are theories of change. Accordingly, feminist engagements with inter national organ iza tions and global govern ance center on efforts to combat gender discrimination, fight various forms of subordination and oppression of women, and problematize entrenched heteronormativity —i.e. the tendency to treat the male-female binary as a natural given. Both feminist activism and feminist theory are thus inherently political. Aware of the deep gender biases in scholarship carrying the mantle of objectivity, feminist researchers recognize that all knowledge is interested and strive for a “dynamic objectivity” that makes knowledge interests explicit.1
