4th Edition
Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium
Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium argues that the power of gender works to help keep gender, race, class, sexual, and national divisions in place despite increasing attention to gender issues in the study and practice of world politics. Accessible and student-friendly for both undergraduate and graduate courses, authors Anne Sisson Runyan and V. Spike Peterson analyze gendered divisions of power and resources that contribute to the worldwide crises of representation, violence, and sustainability. They emphasize how hard-won attention to gender equality in world affairs can be co-opted when gender is used to justify or mystify unjust forms of global governance, international security, and global political economy.In the new and updated fourth edition, Runyan and Peterson examine the challenges of forging transnational solidarities to de-gender world politics, scholarship, and practice through renewed politics for greater representation and redistribution. Yet they see promise in coalitional struggles to re-radicalize feminist world political demands to change the downward conditions of women, men, children, and the planet. Updated to include framing questions at the opening of each chapter, discussion questions and exercises at the end of each chapter, and updated data on gender statistics and policymaking. Chapters One and Two have also been revised to provide more support to readers with less of a background in gender politics. Case studies and web resources are now also provided.
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: Re-Positionings of Women and Men in World Politics
Global Crises: Re-Masculinizations 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, 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 Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding
(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 De-Gendering World Politics
Biography
Anne Sisson Runyan, University of Cincinnati, USA.
V. Spike Peterson, University of Arizona, USA.
