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Comment on this article   Gendered global political economy scholarship teaches us that “gender” is everywhere and that no “economic” value is socially untied, or “gender neutral.” Feminist and gendered interventions in the discipline of international political economy (IPE) have sought to build different kinds of knowledge about, but also beyond, what is considered conventionally acceptable in IPE scholarship. Showcasing interdisciplinary and various approaches and methods, they trace the constitutive (and also causal) role that gender plays in the diverse forms, functions, and impacts of the global political economy (GPE), while engaging with issues of terminology and methodology as much as economic analysis. An increasing commitment in studies of the GPE to gender analysis as a crucial means of analyzing and understanding all socioeconomic processes has thus thoroughly broadened gender's analytical reach, while also encouraging much-needed consideration of women and men's lived experiences of economic processes. Gendered IPE (whether articulated as explicitly feminist or not) displays a vibrancy and intellectual commitment to diverse understandings and knowledges that make it an essential part of any inquiry into global politics. Gender analyses are most clearly “marked” in/from the “community” of critical IPE scholarship through their commitment to gender not just as a concern ... log in or subscribe to read full text