ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to draw attention to current discussions taking place over the past, present, and future of feminist International Relations (IR). These discussions, which have occurred in a number of different forums over the past several years, center on a shift that has taken place in feminist IR scholarship over time. Whereas much of the early feminist IR scholarship that emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s sought to apply a gender lens to issues traditionally associated with war, peace, and security as well as issues related to the global political economy, by the early 2000s. It is argued; these two areas of research were increasingly de-linked and separated into distinct feminist security studies (FSS) and feminist international political economy (FIPE) literatures. The chapter is intended to be provocative and to challenge a number of assumptions about IR; it should be understood as a productive engagement about the future of feminist thought inside and outside of IR.
