Research Catalog

Title

Global gender issues in the new millennium / V. Spike Peterson, Anne Sisson Runyan.

Author

Peterson, V. Spike

Publication

• Boulder, CO : Westview Press, ©2010.
• ©2010

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Additional Authors

• Runyan, Anne Sisson
• Peterson, V. Spike.

Description

xxiii, 300 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

From the Publisher: Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium connects the inequalities between and among women and men with the world politics of global governance, security, political economy, and ecology. Through historical, theoretical, and empirical analysis, the authors alert us to gendered divisions of power, violence, labor and resources, as well as the power of gender as a meta-lens that keeps gender, race, class, sexual, and national divisions in place, despite some re-positionings of some women and men on the world political stage. In this completely new edition, which reflects significant advances in feminist international relations and transnational feminist scholarship, the authors apply intersectional analysis to global governance, militarization, global economic restructuring, and environmental degradation. They explore how crises of representation, insecurity, and sustainability have widened and deepened-particularly in the post-9/11 period-while at the same time global gender policymaking (quotas, gender mainstreaming, and the advancing of women's human rights) has increased. The authors focus on this apparent contradiction-the higher level of attention to gender and women's human rights in a time of fierce militarization, savage economic inequality, and ecological crisis-but also address how the power of gender, as a meta-lens that orders world politics, can be deconstructed to rethink identities, ideologies, structures, and policies that rest upon gendered processes of imperialism, neoliberalism, racialization, and sexualization. The book emphasizes how hard-won attention to gender equality in world affairs can be co-opted when gender is used to justify or mystify unjust global governance, global security, and global political economy, but at the same time sees promise in coalitional struggles to re-radicalize feminist world political demands to change the downward conditions of women, men, children, and the planet. Thus, the authors also examine the challenges of forging transnational solidarities to de-gender world politics, scholarship, and practice through renewed politics of representation and redistribution.

Series Statement

Dilemmas in world politics

Uniform Title

Dilemmas in world politics.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Women > Political activity
• World politics > 21st century
• Femmes
• Politique
• Egalité des chances
• Women > Political activity
• World politics

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Global gender issues. 2nd ed. 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments to the Third Edition -- Acknowledgments to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments to the First Edition -- List of acronyms -- 1: Introduction: Gender And Global Issues -- Gender and global crises -- Gender gains: re-positionings of women and men in world politics -- Global crises: re-masculinizations of world politics -- Gender and intersectional analysis in IR -- Mapping the book -- 2: Gendered Lenses On World Politics -- How lenses work and why they matter -- World politics lenses -- Politicizing stereotypes, dichotomies, and ideologies -- Feminist inquiry and politicizing gender -- Denaturalizing gender -- Power of gender as a meta-lens -- Intersectional analysis and "feminization as devalorization" -- Feminist IR lenses -- Global gendered, racialized, and sexualized divisions of power, violence, and labor and resources -- 3: Gender And Global Governance -- Feminist approaches to politics -- Women actors in global governance -- Barriers to women's participation in global governance -- Institutionalizing global gender equality -- Neoliberal governmentality and the new global politics of gender equality -- Women in politics versus feminist politics -- 4: Gender And Global Security -- Feminist approaches to security -- Gendered security -- Women, militaries, and political violence -- Men, militaries, and gender violence -- Gendered peacekeeping and peacemaking -- (De)militarizing feminism -- Disarming security -- 5: Gender And Global Political Economy -- Feminist approaches to global political economy -- Women and development -- Women and neoliberal globalization -- Gendered financial matters -- Producing consent and crisis -- Gendering today's globalized economy -- Gendered politics of consumption -- Gendered resources -- Gendered divisions of resources -- Toward resisting neoliberalism -- 6: Gendered Resistances -- Feminist resistance politics -- Toward de-gendering world politics -- Web resources -- References -- About the authors -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780813343945
• 0813343941

LCCN

2009020172

OCLC

• ocn225874916
• 225874916
• SCSB-1522479

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library