Analyzing Human Security: A Feminist Perspective

International Relations

Feminism is the school of thought that brings to the fore the gender concerns in the field of international relation. Its main focus is to analyse how gender affects world politics and is also an effect of the world politics. This paper proposes to probe the status of women vis-à-vis human security. It shall deal with the pressing issue of gender security in the light of the definition of human security given by Dr Mahbub Ul Haq in the United Nation Development Programme’s 1994 Human Development Report. The perception towards security received a very unique and new dimension by the concept proposed by Dr Mahbub Ul Haq. He made a human being the epicentre of the concept of security. Dr Mahbub Ul Haq has expanded the concept of human security to seven areas. Paper emphasise the issue of gender security in the background of the expanded definition given by him. The seven areas are as follows-1) Economic security2) food security 3) health security4) environmental security 5) personal security6) community security 7) political security (Human Development Report. 1994,pp.24-33).

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