1st Edition

Worlding Women A Feminist International Politics

By Jan Jindy Pettman Copyright 1996
288 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

In Worlding Women Jan Jindy Pettman asks 'Where are the women in international relations'? She develops a broad picture of women in colonial and post-colonial relations; racialized, ethnic and national identity conflicts; in wars, liberation movements and peace movements; and in the international political economy. Bringing contemporary feminist theory together with women's experiences of the... Read more
Summary of Contents:
Part 1: The Gendered Politics of Identities
4 chapters discuss women, gender and the state, colonisation, racism, nationalisms, and postmigratory/postcolonial identities
Part 2: The Gendered Politics of Peace and War
3 chapters discuss men, masculinities and war; women, peace and war
Part 3: The International Sexual Division of Labour
(2 chapters)

Biography

Jan Jindy Pettman

'Pettman's book is an comprehensive, insightful, humane survey of the field that should be IR; there is no better place to start as a student.'

Chilla Bulbeck, University of Adelaide