... , and the subsequent predominance of males in military and diplomatic roles throughout this time. J. Ann Tickner (1991:27) proposes that feminist scholars typically and stereotypically use a gendered perspective, or look solely throughgendered lenses? when it comes to International Relations. Such scholars suggest International Relations is a purelymasculine? field whereinternational politics is a man's world, ... dichotomies (V. Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan 1995:5), thus creating further prejudices throughout society, even to the extent that language (i.e. the underlying cultur...

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... to encourage migrants to Australia. The romanticised stereotypes of the "typical" Australian have often left out most Australians, especially women. It can be seen that Australia's national identity is indeed gendered and women have had to overcome major acts of adversity to get where they are today. When men have been sent to fight our wars in the past, women have ... an "imagined community"? Australia's national identity has been constructed by historians, journalist and politicians through time and has been dominated by the English and Irish derived ethnic group with a common languag...

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