Gender Matters in Global Politics
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-71521-8 (ISBN)
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Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Gender Matters in Global Politics is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates studying feminism & international relations, gender and global politics and similar courses. It provides students with an accessible but in-depth account of the most significant theories, methodologies, debates and issues.
This textbook is written by an international line-up of established and emerging scholars from a range of theoretical perspectives, and brings together cutting-edge feminist scholarship in a variety of issue areas.
Key features and benefits of the book:
Introduces students to the wide variety of feminist and gender theory and explains the relevance to contemporary global politics
Explains the insights of feminist theory for a range of other disciplines including international relations, international political economy and security studies
Addresses a large number of key contemporary issues such as human rights, trafficking, rape as a tool of war, peacekeeping and state-building, terrorism and environmental politics
Features detailed pedagogical tools and resources – seminar exercises, text boxes, photographs, suggestions for further reading, web resources and a glossary of key terms
New chapters on - Environmental politics and ecology; War; Terrorism and political violence; Land, food and water; International legal institutions; Peacebuilding institutions and post-conflict reconstruction; Citizenship; Art, aesthetics and emotionality; and New social media and global resistance.
This text enables students to develop a sophisticated understanding of the work that gender does in policies and practices of global politics.
Laura J. Shepherd is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School, University of New South Wales, Australia. She teaches and researches in the areas of gender politics, international relations and critical security studies.
Part 1: Theory/Practice 1. Feminist International Relations: making sense... 2. Ontologies, epistemologies, methodologies 3. Sex or gender? Bodies in global poliltics and why gender matters 4. Postcolonial theories and challenges to 'first world-ism' Part 2: Ethics and Subjectivity 5. Ethics 6. Environmental politics and ecology 7. Body politics: gender, gender, sexuality and human rights 8. Trafficking in human beings Part 3: Violence and Security 9. War 10. Militarism 11. Terrorism and poliltics violence 12. The 'war on terrorism' 13. Genocide and mass violence 14. Sexual violence in war Part 4: Political Economy 15. Internatinoal/global political economy 16. Production, employment and consumption 17. Land. water and food 18. Development institutions and neliberal globalisation Part 5: International Institutions 19. Mainstreaming gender in international institutions 20. International criminal law 21. Peacekeeping 22. Peacebuilding Part 6: Identities, Orders, Borders 23. Migration 24. Religion 25. Nationalism 26. Citizenship, nationality and gender 27. Transnational activism Part 7: Information, Communication, Technology 28. Art, aesthetics and emotionality 29. Popular culture and the politics of the visual 30. Sex, gender, and cyberspace 31. New social media and global resistance
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.7.2014 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 64 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and white; 34 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 174 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 997 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-71521-0 / 0415715210 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-71521-8 / 9780415715218 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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