Global gender issues in the new millennium / Anne Sisson Runyan, University of Cincinnati, V. Spike Peterson, University of Arizona.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Runyan, Anne Sisson, author.

Peterson, V. Spike, author.

Series:

Dilemmas in world politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity.

Women.

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 328 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Fourth Edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2014]

Summary:

"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. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Chapter One: Introduction: Gender and Global Issues

Gender Gains: Re-Positionings of Women in World Politics Global Crises: Undermining Equality, Peace, Social Justice, and the Planet The Power of Gender: Accounting for the Contradictions Gender and Intersectional Analysis in International Relations Mapping the Book

Chapter Two: Gender Lenses on World Politics

How Lenses Work and Why They Matter Denaturalizing Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality and Nation (based on multiple feminist lenses) The Social Construction of Gender and Gendered Hierarchies (gender in this outline typically refers to masculinities and femininities; whereas when gendered is used, it signals an intersectional analysis of multiple social hierarchies that are always gendered) Gendered Hierarchies in World Politics Global Gendered, Racialized, and Sexualized Divisions of Power, Violence, Labor and Resources

Chapter Three: Global Governance: Gendered Power

Global Governance for What? For Whom? Gendered Constructions of Power and Politics Locating Power: Global/Regional/National/Local Locating Power: Gender/Race/Class/Sexuality/Nation Dislocating Power: Global Gender Politics and Policies Feminist Resistances to Re-Locations of Gendered Power in Global Governance

Chapter Four: Global Security: Gendered Violence

Security for What? For Whom? Gendered Constructions of Violence Securitization: Gendered Militaries, Colonizations, Wars, and Militarized Cultures Insecuritization: Gendered Direct, Structural, and Imperial Violence De-Securitization: Feminist Resistances to Gendered and Gender Violence

Chapter Five: Global Political Economy: Gendered Labor and Resources

Whose Economy? Whose Prosperity? At What Social and Ecological Costs? Gendered Constructions of the Economy, Work, and the Environment Gendered Development Gendered Globalization/Empire Gendered Resource Depletion and Degradation Feminist Resistances to Global Economic Hegemonies

Chapter Six: Ungendering World Politics

Ungendering Power: Decolonizing Governance Ungendering Violence: De-Securitizing Conflict Ungendering Labor and Resources: Resisting Empire Ungendering Resistance to World-Politics-As-Usual: Diversifying Feminist Thought, Social Movements, and Transnational Solidarities .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813349169

0813349168

OCLC:

854956927