Gendering World Politics : Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era

Expanding on the issues she originally explored in her classic work, Gender in International Relations, J. Ann Tickner focuses her distinctively feminist approach on new issues of the international relations agenda since the end of the Cold War, such as ethnic conflict and other new security issues, globalizations, democratization, and human rights. As in her previous work, these topics are placed in the context of brief reviews of more traditional approaches to the same issues. She also looks at the considerable feminist work that has been published on these topics since the previous book came out.Tickner highlights the misunderstandings that exist between mainstream and feminist approaches, and explores how these debates developed in the new environment of post--Cold War international relations.Acclaim for Tickner's Gender in International Relations:"For all who seek new ways to think about and understand world politics" -- Political Science Quarterly"Tickner... rethinks from a feminist point of view virtually every conventional category used by theorists and practictioners of international relations." -- Susan Moller Okin, Stanford University Front Cover ......Page 1 Copyright Info ......Page 5 Dedication ......Page 6 TOC ......Page 7 Preface ......Page 8 Introduction: Gendering World Politics ......Page 13 1 - Troubled Encounters: Feminism Meets IR ......Page 21 Feminist Theories ......Page 23 Liberal Feminism ......Page 24 Challenges to Liberal Feminism ......Page 25 Feminist Theories and IR ......Page 32 Debates in IR ......Page 34 Feminist Intersections with IR ......Page 39 2 - Gendered Dimensions of War, Peace, and Security ......Page 48 Realist Perspectives on Security ......Page 49 Beyond the Realist Agenda ......Page 52 Redefining Security......Page 55 Epistemological Debates......Page 56 Feminist Perspectives on Security......Page 59 Casualties of War: Challenging the Myth of Protection......Page 61 National Security: A Gendered Discourse......Page 63 Gendering State and Nation......Page 65 Gendering War ......Page 69 Gendering Peace ......Page 70 Feminist Redefinitions of Security......Page 73 3 - Gender in the Global Economy......Page 77 From Three Paradigms to the Neo/Neo Synthesis......Page 79 The Debate about Economic Globalization ......Page 81 A Resurgent Liberalism ......Page 82 Critical Reactions ......Page 85 Feminist Perspectives on Economic Globalization ......Page 89 Gender in the Debate on Economic Globalization ......Page 91 A Globalized Gendered Division of Labor ......Page 93 Women in Development: Expanding the IR Agenda ......Page 101 4 - Democratization, the State, and the Global Order: Gendered Perspectives......Page 108 Democratization and the Democratic Peace ......Page 110 Democratization: Liberal and Critical Perspectives......Page 112 Does Democracy Foster International Peace?......Page 114 Feminist Perspectives on Democratization ......Page 115 Democratization: A Gendered Concept ......Page 116 Transitions in Russia and East Europe......Page 118 Democratic Transitions in Latin America ......Page 120 Rethinking Democratization with Gendered Lenses ......Page 121 Women in International Organizations......Page 122 Women's Rights as Human Rights ......Page 124 Women in Social Movements and Nongovernmental Organizations......Page 128 Rethinking the State ......Page 132 5 - Conclusions and Beginnings: Some Pathways for IR Feminist Futures......Page 137 Why Do Conversations Frequently Fail?......Page 138 Whose Disciplinary Boundaries? ......Page 142 Putting Gender In When It Is Already There ......Page 146 Subjectivity......Page 147 What Is Knowledge For?......Page 148 Different Questions ......Page 150 Feminist Methodologies ......Page 152 Ethnography ......Page 153 Discourse Analysis ......Page 156 Is There a Future for Feminism in IR? ......Page 158 Introduction ......Page 160 1 - Troubled Encounters: Feminism Meets IR ......Page 161 2 - Gendered Dimensions of War, Peace, and Security......Page 166 3 - Gender in the Global Economy......Page 170 4 - Democratization, the State, and the Global Order: Gendered Perspectives......Page 175 5 - Conclusions and Beginnings: Some Pathways for IR Feminist Futures ......Page 179 Bibliography ......Page 182 Index ......Page 202 Expanding on the issues she originally explored in her classic work, Gender in International Relations, J. Ann Tickner focuses her distinctively feminist approach on new issues of the international relations agenda since the end of the Cold War, such as ethnic conflict and other new security issues, globalizations, democratization, and human rights. As in her previous work, these topics are placed in the context of brief reviews of more traditional approaches to the same issues. She also looks at the considerable feminist work that has been published on these topics since the previous book came out. Tickner highlights the misunderstandings that exist between mainstream and feminist approaches, and explores how these debates developed in the new environment of postCold War international relations. Acclaim for Tickner's Gender in International Relations : "For all who seek new ways to think about and understand world politics" Political Science Quarterly "Tickner... rethinks from a feminist point of view virtually every conventional category used by theorists and practictioners of international relations."Susan Moller Okin, Stanford University This work focuses the author's distinctively feminist approach on the issues of the international relations agenda since the end of the Cold War, such as ethnic conflict and other security issues, globalizations, democratization and human rights J. Ann Tickner. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [171]-190) And Index.