The Contemporary Reader of Feminist International Relations

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Feminism is for tout le monde

Catherine Goetze and Khushi Singh Rathore

PART I. Listen and Learn

2. Daring to take women seriously

Cynthia Enloe

3. What can Settler Feminisms and Feminist IR (Un)Learn from Indigenous Feminism?

Anne Sisson Runyan

4. Global White Supremacy in a Time of Genocide

Sherene H. Razack

5. Confronting the Patriarchy: My journey toward feminist IR

J. Ann Tickner

6. How does queer theory/queering advance our understanding of state/nations and structural inequalities? And why does this matter to feminist IR?

Spike V. Peterson

7. Looking for a fight on the gender of diplomacy

Ann Towns

PART II. The Relational in Feminist IR: Intersections and Configurations

8. A Decolonial Feminist Non-Manifesto

Sara C. Motta and Kumari Abeydeera

9. Third World Feminism

Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat

10. Our Caste Problem

Meghana Nayak, with Shalini Basu and Aryaa Moudgal

11. Entangled worlds: The intimate, uncomfortable relationship between feminist IR scholarship and feminist action

Catherine Eschle

12. Feminist grassroots organizing in international relation

Itziar Mujika Chao

13. On creativity and feminist community

Cristina Masters and Marysia Zalewski

PART III. Gender Politics as World Ordering Politics

14. Women’s security and the WPS agenda

Laura J. Shepherd

15. UN Security Council Resolution 1325

Fotini Bellou

16. Worlding Women and International Law

Aoife O’Donoghue

17. Gender in global climate governance

Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir and Annica Kronsell

18. Thinking about the gender of diplomacy

Ann Towns

19. Making sense of international LGBTI rights promotion

Emil Edenborg

20. Politicised Homophobia: Sexual Moralism, National Identity, and Foreign Policy

Dean Cooper-Cunningham

PART IV. Gendering and bordering difference

21. Gender, Borders, and Refugee Governance

Lucy Hall and Natalie Welfens

22. Marriage Migration – a patchwork of embodied identity and security politics

Elena Barabansteva

23. Guest Worker Programs in the Asia Pacific: Why depletion is a persistent feature in the global economy

Serena Eleonora Ford and Maria Tanyag

24. Women, Violence and Encampment: Understanding Gender-Based Violence against Rohingya Women in Refugee Camps

Sudha Rawat

25. Nostalgia and solidarity entanglements: Iranian women in Spain narrating resistance

Sheida Besozzi

26. Exile

Aida A. Hozić and Stephanie A. Denardo

PART V. Gender, violence and peace

27. Are women more peaceful?

Laura Sjoberg

28. Women Combatants in Civil Wars

Alexis Henshaw

29. Women’s Agentic Responses to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence                        

Ann-Kathrin Kreft

30. Male survivors of sexual violence

Philipp Schulz

31. Women and peacebuilding in authoritarian and hybrid regimes

Elisabeth Olivius

32. Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in the Middle East: A Tool of State Repression

Anwar Mhajne

33. Unstitching and restitching gender relations in the reincorporation process of FARC ex-combatants in Colombia

Beatriz E. Arias López, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Berena Torres Marín

PART VI. Worlding the politics of care

34. The ethics of care in International Relations

Maggie FitzGerald

35. Sadako Ogata, Human Security and Ethics of Care

Ayako Kobayashi

36. The Politics of Care: Mapping Emancipatory Futures in/beyond Institutions

Dipali Anumol, Sinduja Raja and Q Mannivan

37. Family matters in world politics

Catherine Goetze

Index

Biography

Catherine Goetze is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Tasmania. She has widely published on the sociology of peacebuilding, migration, the role of families in international politics and on feminist theories of the state in international politics.

Khushi Singh Rathore received her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University and is Associate Editor of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy. Her doctoral thesis is entitled ‘Women in Early Years of India's Foreign Policy: Evaluating the Role of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’.