Toplumsal cinsiyet bilinçli analiz güvenlik anlayışımıza nasıl katkıda bulunur?

This thesis discusses the possible contribution of a gender-aware analysis toour understanding of security. Within the discipline of International Relations, thereis a great diversity in the range of perspectives on analyzing security. They havedifferent answers to what is being secured, what is being secured against and whoprovides for security. In Security Studies, empirically based positivist perspectives,explicitly or implicitly specify what the referent of their studies is. It can be thesystem, state, society, and individuals. On the other hand, in feminist theory, it is allabout rethinking concepts, rethinking models. It may appear that gender can havelittle to contribute to the study of security. However, this is not the case. The genderawareness in the study of security challenges the basic understanding of security.Structures and practices that are taken as given by traditional approaches within apatriarchal discourse serve only to obscure the inequalities and insecurities. In thisthesis, through adding gender as a category of analysis, it is attempted to illustratethe gendered constructions of conflict, militarism and militarisation. Without makinginvisible visible, our understanding of security can only be partial.Keywords: Gender, Security, Conflict, Militarism, Militarisationiii