A second generation of feminist research promises a new phase in the
development of feminist International Relations. This emerging body of
scholarship seeks to make gender a central analytic category in studies of
foreign policy, security, global political economy through an exploration
of particular historical and geographic contexts (Moon 1997; Chin
1998; Hooper 2000; Prugl 2000; True 2003; Whitworth 2004; Stern
2005). More cautious and precise in its analytic use of the concept of
gender, and more closely tied to developments in critical international
theory, constructivism, post-Marxist political economy, feminist historical
and anthropological methods, the newest feminist scholarship provides
empirical support for first-generation challenges, while also generating
new theoretical insight on the gendering of global politics, as the rest of
the chapter illustrates