Description
This panel examines the current state of research on gender, feminism, and nuclear weapons. Feminist literature offers a range of approaches that can be used to rethink and reshape global nuclear politics. The panel looks at how feminist thought has been applied to nuclear field, assesses the policy implications of existing feminist perspectives and highlights directions for future research on feminism, gender and nuclear weapons. Papers are going to provide answers for three guiding questions:
How has feminism been incorporated into scholarship on nuclear weapons?
How has gender been used in nuclear policy debates and in scholarship on nuclear weapons?
Which feminist traditions are missing in feminist perspectives on nuclear weapons?
