Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium

Editor/Author Sisson Runyan, Anne and Peterson, V. Spike
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Westview Press

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ISBN: 978-0-81-334916-9
Category: Social Sciences - Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Image Count: 8
Book Status: Available
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An introduction to how gendered divisions of world politics contributes to crises of representation, violence, and sustainability despite increasing attention to gender issues in world politics.

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Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments to the Fourth Edition
  • Acknowledgments to the Third Edition
  • Acknowledgments to the Second Edition
  • Acknowledgments to the First Edition
  • Acronyms
  • 1 Introduction: Gender and Global Issues
  • The Intersectional Study of Gender
  • Gender as a Lens on World Politics
  • Gender and Global Issues
  • Gender and Global Crises
  • Gender Gains: Repositionings of Women and Men in World Politics
  • Global Crises: Remasculinizations of World Politics
  • Mapping the Book
  • 2 Gendered Lenses on World Politics
  • How Lenses Work and Why They Matter
  • The Power of Gender
  • The Power of Gender as a Meta-Lens in World Politics
  • Feminist World Politics Lenses
  • Global Gendered Divisions of Power, Violence, 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 Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peace-Building
  • (De)Militarizing Feminism
  • Disarming Security
  • 5 Gender and Global Political Economy
  • Feminist Approaches to Global Political Economy
  • Women, Gender, and Development
  • Anatomies of Neoliberal Globalization
  • Women, Gender, and Neoliberal Globalization
  • Gendered Financialization
  • Gendered Resources
  • Gendered Divisions of Resources
  • Toward Resisting Neoliberalism
  • 6 Gendered Resistances
  • Feminist Resistance Politics
  • Toward Degendering World Politics
  • Suggested Activities for Research and Discussion
  • Web and Video Resources
  • References
  • About the Authors