1st Edition

Gender and Crisis in Global Politics

Edited By Laura Sjoberg Copyright 2017
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

The global political arena is (again) in a time of crisis. Different sources pay attention to different crises: the Global Financial Crisis, the Debt Crisis, the Crisis of ISIL/Daesh in Iraq and Syria, the Crisis of Israel and Palestine, and the Iran Nuclear Crisis have gotten significant attention in media coverage of global politics. But those are not the only crises that scholars and... Read more

1. Gender and Crisis in Global Politics: Introduction
Laura Sjoberg, Heidi Hudson and Cynthia Weber

2. Revisiting IR in a Time of Crisis: Learning from Indigenous Knowledge
J. Ann Tickner

3. Winning the Battle but Losing the War on Violence: A Feminist Perspective on the Declining Global Violence Thesis
Jacqui True

4. Power of the First Hour: Is There a Transnational Breastfeeding Crisis?
Amanda D. Watson and Corinne L. Mason

5. Crisis Narratives and Masculinist Protection: Gendering the Original Stockholm Syndrome
Cecilia Åse

6. "Tapping" Women for Post-Crisis Capitalism: Evidence from the 2012 World Development Report
Sydney Calkin

7. Northern Crises: Women’s Relationships and Resistances to Resource Extractions
Deborah Stienstra

Biography

Laura Sjoberg is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. Her work has been published in more than three dozen journals in Political Science, Law, International Relations, Gender Studies, and Geography. She is author or editor of ten books, including, most recently, Gender, War, and Conflict (Polity, 2014) and Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores (with Caron Gentry, 2015). Her current projects include an edited volume on quantitative methods in critical and constructivist IR, Interpretive Quantification (with J. Samuel Barkin, forthcoming), and a book on women’s perpetration of conflict sexual violence, Impossible Women, Impossible Crimes.