Women increasingly feature in nuclear diplomacy, both as participants and as subject matter. Research institutes report a steady increase in women's representation in large multilateral disarmament forums. Diplomats emphasize the importance of women in statements and working papers. The recent conversation on women in nuclear diplomacy forms part of a wider discourse on women in the nuclear weapons field. This article studies portrayals of women in the discourse. It identifies three narratives as prominent themes: women are missing, women are change-makers and women are victims. The narratives can generate support for political projects for gender equality and nuclear disarmament. However, they also create an ideal image of women as peaceful that bears negative connotations for perceptions of women's political agency. The article makes three contributions to feminist literature in International Relations. First, it brings the debate on the value of strategic essentialism to the nuclear case. Second, it proposes a new research agenda on women in the nuclear field to complexify the image of women as peaceful. Lastly, the article identifies tensions between feminisms in the nuclear field and suggests viewing these tensions as an indication that feminism is an ongoing conversation shaped by contention and solidarity. The practical significance of the article concerns the way in which the use of narratives about women can reinforce gender stereotypes. Practitioners might want to consider this implication when drawing on the narratives in their advocacy for women's inclusion and nuclear disarmament.

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 更多的女性，更少的核武器？


女性越来越多地作为参与者和主题参与核外交。研究机构报告称，妇女在大型多边裁军论坛中的代表人数稳步增加。外交官在声明和工作文件中强调女性的重要性。最近关于核外交中女性的对话构成了关于核武器领域女性的更广泛讨论的一部分。本文研究了话语中对女性的描绘。它确定了三个叙事作为突出主题：女性缺失、女性是变革者以及女性是受害者。这些叙事可以为性别平等和核裁军的政治项目赢得支持。然而，它们也创造了一种理想的女性形象，即和平的形象，这对女性的政治能动性的看法具有负面含义。本文对《国际关系》中的女权主义文学做出了三项贡献。首先，它引发了关于战略本质主义对核案例价值的辩论。其次，它提出了一项关于核领域女性的新研究议程，以使女性和平的形象复杂化。最后，文章确定了核领域女权主义之间的紧张关系，并建议将这些紧张关系视为女权主义是由争论和团结塑造的持续对话的标志。这篇文章的现实意义涉及使用关于女性的叙述如何强化性别刻板印象。从业者在倡导妇女包容和核裁军时，可能要考虑这种含义。