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Comment on this article   Feminist International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy (IPE) perspectives offer four major contributions to globalization scholarship. First, feminist perspectives bring into relief the experiences and agency of women and other marginalized subjects within processes of globalization. Second, they highlight the gendered aspects of the processes of globalization. Third, they offer critical insights into non-gender-sensitive globalization discourses and scholarship. Finally, they propose new ways of conceiving of globalization and its effects that make visible women, women's agency, and gendered relations of power. The feminist literature on globalization, however, is neither monolithic nor unified. Indeed, feminist IR scholarship on globalization is extensively interdisciplinary. The very definition of key concepts such as globalization, gender, and feminism are not static within the literature. On the contrary, the understanding of these terms and the evolution of their conceptual meanings are central to the development of the literature on globalization through feminist lenses. “Globalization” in the feminist literature has been defined variously, from a process of global economic liberalization that began in the 1970s to a multidimensional process of intensification of political, social and cultural relations across borders ( Held ... log in or subscribe to read full text