1st Edition

Feminist International Relations 'Exquisite Corpse'

By Marysia Zalewski Copyright 2013
    192 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    192 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book offers a contemporary intervention in the field of feminism/international relations. Partly inspired by Surrealism, the book is written in a series of vignettes and draws on a variety of approaches inviting readers in to inhabit the text. It is a politically engaged book, though one which does not direct readers in conventional ways, visiting global politics, the classroom, poetry, institutional violence, cartoons, feminist violence, films, violent white men, angry black women, blood and ‘English’ puddings. Working imaginatively with epistemology and methodology, and embedding theory throughout the text, the book can be considered part of the current genre of scholarship which attends to complexity, uncertainty, disruption, affect and the creative possibilities of randomness.

    Feminist International Relations: Exquisite Corpse will be of interest to students and scholars of International Politics, Gender and Feminist Studies, International Studies, Political Theory, Globalization Studies and further afield.

    1. Prelude 2. Exquisite Corpse 3. An Ordinary Man 4. Betraying Boundaries 5. Stepping through the dark 6. Taking a Detour 7. The measure of violence 8. Avaricious Institutions 9. How the Answers Got Their Questions 10. The trail of blood 11. Answers and Questions (Why does Freud giggle when the women leave the room?) 12. The feminist body arrives 13. Intimate permissions 14. And feminism is … 15. And feminism is … 16. And feminism is … 17. Making Feminism Palatable 18. Theory 19. Crossing disciplines 20. Transformation 21. The morning after 22. Feminism’s Time 23. Do you like women? 24. Sick and mad 25. The dead body 26. I am 27. Knowing gender 28. Looking Awry 29. What would Valerie Solanos think? 30. Violence 31. Going through the day 32. Securing men 33. IR without men 34. Rape 35. The code 36. Where is rape? 37. Why can’t a woman be more like a man? 38. An Ordinary Man 39. Woman’s place 40. When foreign policy makers and feminist academics meet 41. Two women 42. The hours 43. Acceptably Black 44. Invisible Whiteness 45. White 46. Taking time to care 47. Exquisite Corpse

    Biography

    Marysia Zalewski is Professor and Head of School of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

    "This is a brilliant book. It is important, evocative, disturbing, fascinating and engaging. It ranges widely over the disciplines and draws on literary and media approaches to excellent effect, while always in conversation with feminism/IR… It will be among the most quoted, contested and influential of feminist and IR books, and be read well beyond those boundaries." - Jan Jindy Pettman, Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Australia.