ABSTRACT

The reflexivity is echoed in autobiographical accounts offered by Anne Sisson Runyan's self-reflections on "the methods question" in feminist international relations (IR)/ international political economy (IPE). This chapter attempted to situate some of the work in relation to the feminist IR/IPE methods that are articulated and codified. Look back to early work through the prism of recent articulations of feminist methods, finds engaging in many of the practices are catalogued. Influenced by Harding's argument in favour of post-positivist orientations toward both a feminist 'standpoint' and 'post-modern' approaches, is a check on essentializing and universalizing claims about feminism. The chapter also viewed the decision is a methodological one with both practical and political implications. Seeing the task as a broad feminist re-writing of IR and IPE that would be accessible to students new to the study of world politics. The basic critical 'method' in IPE constantly vulnerable to rethinking, reworking and reimagining the search for global justice.