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But Now Can See: One Academic's Journey to Feminist Security Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2012

Valerie M. Hudson
Valerie M. Hudson
Affiliation:
Brigham Young University
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This essay expresses my gratitude for the spirit of inclusiveness shown by the first generation of Feminist Security Studies (FSS) scholars. I would like to see FSS remain a large tent, for in constructing boundaries for FSS, we may unintentionally make it smaller than it really is. Indeed, I would like to explore the value of inclusiveness to FSS by undertaking a bit of autobiography. I was a poor candidate to wind up as part of this field; the story of how FSS insights upended my academic life may be instructive as we endeavor to help others in the academy see the connections between gender and security studies that we ourselves see.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , December 2011 , pp. 586 - 590
Copyright
Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2011

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