ABSTRACT

In the past few decades feminist scholars in IR have dealt at length with a wide variety of issues, including war, militarization, and security (e.g., Ehlstain 1987, Enloe 1989, 1993, 2000, Hansen 2000, Tickner 1992, 2001, Cooke and Woollacott 1993, Sjoberg 2006). However, nuclear proliferation and nuclear weapons have received only little explicit attention. One possible reason for this gradual disappearance is the shift in global political imaginaries after the Cold War, in which ‘nuclear weapons began to recede from the front-and-center position in public consciousness’ (Cohn 2006: 94).