%0 Journal Article
%T Feminist Experiences of ¡®Studying Up¡¯: Encounters with International Institutions
%A Christine Cheng
%A Georgina Holmes
%A Katharine A. M. Wright
%A Maria Martin de Almagro
%A Matthew Hurley
%A Roberta Guerrina
%A Soumita Basu
%J Millennium
%@ 1477-9021
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0305829818806429
%X This article makes the case for feminist IR to build knowledge of international institutions. It emerges from a roundtable titled ¡®Challenges and Opportunities for Feminist IR: Researching Gendered Institutions¡¯ which took place at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in Baltimore in 2017. Here, we engage in self-reflexivity, drawing on our conversation to consider what it means for feminist scholars to ¡®study up¡¯. We argue that feminist IR conceptions of narratives and the everyday make a valuable contribution to feminist institutionalist understandings of the formal and informal. We also draw attention to the value of postcolonial approaches and multi-site analyses of international institutions for creating a counter-narrative to hegemonic accounts emerging from both the institutions themselves, and scholars studying them without a critical feminist perspective. In so doing, we draw attention to the salience of considering not just what we study as feminist International Relations scholars but how we study it
%K gender
%K international institutions
%K Feminist International Relations
%K postcolonialism
%K g¨¦nero
%K instituciones internacionales
%K relaciones internacionales feministas
%K genre
%K institutions internationales
%K relations internationales f¨¦ministes
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0305829818806429