Gender and sovereignty : feminism, the state, and international relations / John Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, John, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sovereignty.

Patriarchy.

State, The.

Feminist theory--Political aspects.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

xi, 228 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

This invaluable collection compares the relatively unsuccessful economic development of Subsaharan Africa with that of the successful Asian economies, especially the Asian "tigers." It covers three main areas of comparison: the lessons for Africa from the Asian experience; secondly, the comparisons of various aspects of economic development in Africa and Asia; and finally, convergence: how far the laggard economies are catching up with, or diverging away from, each other.

Contents:

Feminism, emancipation and humanity 4

Feminism, IR and sovereignty 5

Momentum concepts 6

Patriarchy, sovereignty and realism 9

Anti-statist theory and the problem of power and authority 10

Coercion, government and a relational view of sovereignty 12

Part I Feminism and Gender

1 Sovereignty and the Problem of Reconstruction 19

Reconstruction and critique 19

Momentum and static concepts 23

Sovereignty and the state 26

2 What Is Feminism? 31

The thorny question of gender 32

Distinguishing sex from gender 34

The diversity problem 42

3 Gender and Emancipation 51

Emancipation as the antidote to patriarchy 52

Feminist empiricism as a contradiction in terms 54

Standpoint and postmodern theory 58

Reconstructing emancipation 63

Part II Gender and the State

4 Defining the State 73

The complexity argument 74

A cautious defence of Max Weber 79

The contradictory character of the state 83

5 Sovereignty, Patriarchy and the Problem of Origins 91

Sovereignty and the 'postmodern state' 91

MacKinnon and the specificity problem 94

Naturalism, origins and the Lerner issue 97

Patriarchy as a system of force 100

Patriarchy and the problem of compliance 104

6 Gender, Realism and International Relations 111

Realism and contention 111

Force, formalism and sovereignty as a physical reality 114

Bringing women into IR 117

War and security as the naturalization of violence 119

Sovereignty and the transition to post-patriarchy 124

7 Patriarchy and Anti-Statist Theory 129

Liberalism and the static logic of naturalism 130

Naturalism in anarchist thought 132

The spectre haunting Marxism 136

Gender and communism 140

Part III Reconstructing Sovereignty

8 Power and Authority 147

Elshtain and the feminization of power 147

The negativity within positive power 149

'New feminism' and the need to unify the concept of power 153

Jones and the concept of compassionate authority 156

Moving beyond sovereignty and domination 158

9 Coercion and Government 165

Hirschmann and the non-consensual 166

Reworking the concept of coercion 170

Differentiating government from the state 176

10 A Relational View of Sovereignty 185

Relationships, rights and the individual 186

Self versus state sovereignty 189

Prostitution and relationships 192

Sovereignty, ecology and nature 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-221) and index.

ISBN:

033375140X

0333790294

OCLC:

44425558