Question
This thinker criticized officers’ attempts at “minimizing the seriousness of military endeavors, of denying their deadly consequences” by using sexually suggestive phrases such as “patting the missile.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this feminist IR scholar, who discussed the hypermasculine “technostrategic” language used by military officials in the article “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals.”
ANSWER: Carol Cohn
[10e] Cynthia Enloe highlighted the effects of international politics on sexism in a work of feminist IR titled for these things, Beaches, and Bases. Unstable republics that rely on natural exports are colloquially named for this fruit.
ANSWER: bananas [accept Bananas, Beaches, and Bases; accept banana republics]
[10m] Feminist IR theories are often grouped with post-colonial theories and this theory as “reflective” theories. This framework popularized by Alexander Wendt holds that norms and identities are critical to understanding IR.
ANSWER: constructivism [accept word forms; accept social constructivism]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Defying Suavity | Cambridge | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Simple Vibes | Limp Franceskit | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |