Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory Lynne Rienner Pub, 1992 While IR theorists are increasingly critical of neorealist assumptions about the state and the international system, few have explored the gendered construction of the state and its implications for IR. Recognizing this, the authors of this collection explore how core concepts of political and IR theory - the state, sovereignty, power - are reframed through feminist lenses. Taking seriously the ...             Gendering World Politics J. Ann. Tickner Columbia University Press, 2001 -- International Affairs             Global Gender Issues: Second Edition (Dilemmas in World Politics) V. Spike Peterson, Anne Sisson Runyan Westview Press, 1998 When we look at world politics through a different set of lenses—ones that reveal how the power of gender blinds us to the presence of women in international affairs—we begin to see what lies below the surface of the interstate power exchanges called international relations. Some women wield traditional international power as heads of state. There are also women in positions of less ...             Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives3 reviews Cynthia Enloe University of California Press, 2000 Important feminist study on militarisation Cynthia Enloe adds to her series of writings looking at the effects of militarisation on women's lives - from the laundresses, camp followers, comfort women and sex workers to feminist military personnel and those who fight the home front. Like Jan Jindy Pettman's "Worlding Women - a feminist ...             Gender in International Relations2 reviews J. Ann. Tickner Columbia University Press, 1992 Great Intro to Feminist IR theory. + Rethinking War, Peace and International Relations Tickner is required reading in many an IR course because of this book. Her style is accessible (ok for upperclassmen, not just grad students) and her organization is clear. In about 250 pages, Tickner takes the reader through a quick survey of the major issues in International Relations from a ...             Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics [Updated Edition]7 reviews Cynthia Enloe University of California Press, 2001 Fascinating + Terrific Read + The Other Side of International Politics + Women and Global Politics             War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa4 reviews Joshua S. Goldstein Cambridge University Press, 2003 The Feminist Male Maker + Excellent Overview of Gender Issues Goldstein's approach should grab male readers especially interested in understanding how gender shapes the war system, for he comes at it from an interdisciplinary angle that attempts to thoroughly cover the popular explanations for gender roles in war and then challenge them with the most up to ...             Feminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey (Cambridge Studies in International Relations) Christine Sylvester Cambridge University Press, 2002 Christine Sylvester examines the history of feminists' efforts to include gender relations in the study of international relations. Tracing the author's own "journey" through the subject, as well as the work of the other leading feminist scholars, the book examines theories, methods, people and locations which have been neglected by conventional scholarship. It will be of interest to scholars ...             Women and War2 reviews Jean Bethke Elshtain University Of Chicago Press, 1995 A fresh view + An important and urgent introduction From the Homeric warrior to Rambo, from the Spartan mother to the Greenham Common Women, Western paradigms of war have shaped public action and forged male and female identity. In the beginning, politics was war, and war has always been a quintessentially male activity. War, in fact, has always ...             War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa4 reviews Joshua S. Goldstein Cambridge University Press, 2003 The Feminist Male Maker + Excellent Overview of Gender Issues Goldstein's approach should grab male readers especially interested in understanding how gender shapes the war system, for he comes at it from an interdisciplinary angle that attempts to thoroughly cover the popular explanations for gender roles in war and then challenge them with the most up to ...             Women and War2 reviews Jean Bethke Elshtain University Of Chicago Press, 1995 A fresh view + An important and urgent introduction From the Homeric warrior to Rambo, from the Spartan mother to the Greenham Common Women, Western paradigms of war have shaped public action and forged male and female identity. In the beginning, politics was war, and war has always been a quintessentially male activity. War, in fact, has always ...             Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives3 reviews Cynthia Enloe University of California Press, 2000 Important feminist study on militarisation Cynthia Enloe adds to her series of writings looking at the effects of militarisation on women's lives - from the laundresses, camp followers, comfort women and sex workers to feminist military personnel and those who fight the home front. Like Jan Jindy Pettman's "Worlding Women - a feminist ...             Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory Lynne Rienner Pub, 1992 While IR theorists are increasingly critical of neorealist assumptions about the state and the international system, few have explored the gendered construction of the state and its implications for IR. Recognizing this, the authors of this collection explore how core concepts of political and IR theory - the state, sovereignty, power - are reframed through feminist lenses. Taking seriously the ...             Gendering World Politics J. Ann. Tickner Columbia University Press, 2001 -- International Affairs             Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics [Updated Edition]7 reviews Cynthia Enloe University of California Press, 2001 Fascinating + Terrific Read + The Other Side of International Politics + Women and Global Politics             Feminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey (Cambridge Studies in International Relations) Christine Sylvester Cambridge University Press, 2002 Christine Sylvester examines the history of feminists' efforts to include gender relations in the study of international relations. Tracing the author's own "journey" through the subject, as well as the work of the other leading feminist scholars, the book examines theories, methods, people and locations which have been neglected by conventional scholarship. It will be of interest to scholars ...             Gender in International Relations2 reviews J. Ann. Tickner Columbia University Press, 1992 Great Intro to Feminist IR theory. + Rethinking War, Peace and International Relations Tickner is required reading in many an IR course because of this book. Her style is accessible (ok for upperclassmen, not just grad students) and her organization is clear. In about 250 pages, Tickner takes the reader through a quick survey of the major issues in International Relations from a ...             Global Gender Issues: Second Edition (Dilemmas in World Politics) V. Spike Peterson, Anne Sisson Runyan Westview Press, 1998 When we look at world politics through a different set of lenses—ones that reveal how the power of gender blinds us to the presence of women in international affairs—we begin to see what lies below the surface of the interstate power exchanges called international relations. Some women wield traditional international power as heads of state. There are also women in positions of less ...