Can't add women and stir

(Marysia, Well, What is the feminist Perspective on Bosnia?, International Affairs Vol 71 No 2, April)

It is not enough rhetorically or theoretically to ‘add women and stir’. In order to think seriously about women, gender and human rights, international relations scholars need to question just how much nations, states and societies naturalize and depend on beliefs about gender differences which all too frequently become reified as disadvantage. This in turn poses a serious challenge to prevailing conceptions of authority and sovereignty in international relations itself.32 States’ claims to self-determination and non-intervention are easily manipulated in order to ‘hide and avoid dealing with the abuses of women within their borders’.33 State security often has little meaning when the struggle for bodily integrity is a daily challenge. (348)