EMPATHETIC COOPERATION - A FEMINIST METHOD FOR IR

Arguing that 'women' are homeless in the canons of IR knowledge, the a uthor asks whether it is possible to rescript IR to be more gender inc lusive without wedding us perilously to a women's international relati ons or relinquishing all possibilities of 'women's' agency. After expl oring the tensions and mutuality between standpoint feminism and femin ist post-modernism, the author offers 'empathetic cooperation' as a fe minist method capable of bringing different theoretical perspectives i nto dialogue and, more generally, of navigating the 'politics of borde rlands'. Examples of such a politics are then examined from the vantag e point of this new methodology.