Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0415715210 ISBN 13: 9780415715218

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2014

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

Excellent for teaching International Relations --and not just courses that are dedicated to gender or feminist IR. Nicely updated, the broad range of topics provides numerous entry points to the puzzles of our time and to the gender relations that mediate international relations. Christine Sylvester, University of Connecticut and Gothenburg University.

L'autore:

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0415715210
• ISBN 13: 9780415715218
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 480
• Redattore: Shepherd Laura J.