Lene Hansen is an
international relations
International relations (IR, and also referred to as international studies, international politics, or international affairs) is an academic discipline. In a broader sense, the study of IR, in addition to multilateral relations, concerns al ...
scholar who is a full professor at the
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University.
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. Hansen is most well known within academia for her critique of the absence of gender within the thinking of the
Copenhagen School of security studies. Her article "The Little Mermaid's Silent Security Dilemma and the Absence of Gender in the Copenhagen School" is most commonly referenced for that argument. The Feminist scholar
Christine Sylvester
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* ''Christine'' (1958 film), based on Schnitzler's play ''Liebelei''
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describes Hansen as the 'leading European feminist doing
Critical Security Studies
Critical security studies (CSS) is an academic discipline within security studies which draws on critical theory to revise and, at times, reject the narrow focus of mainstream approaches to security. Similarly to the case of critical internation ...
'.
[Sylvester, C. (2007), 'Anatomy of a footnote', ''Security Dialogue'', 38: 555]
References
Copenhagen School (security studies)
Danish feminists
21st-century Danish politicians
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Year of birth missing (living people)
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