ABSTRACT
All academic approaches make three sets of decisions: about ontology, that is the question of what exists, what should be studied, and what the basic nature of that which is studied is; about epistemology, that is, the question of what we can know and how to achieve this knowledge; and methodology, that, is the concrete steps and techniques that allow one to carry out an analysis. Because ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies have fundamental implications for how research agendas are put together, what is considered important to study and how studies are conducted, it is crucial to examine the way in which they have been adopted by feminists working in the fi eld of International Relations (IR).
