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Gender Matters In Global Politics : A Feminist Introduction To International Relations
Paperback Edition: 2
Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Gender Matters in Global Politics is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates studying feminism & international relations, gender and global politics and similar courses. It provides students with an accessible but in-depth account of the most significant
theories, methodologies, debates and issues.
Introduces students to the wide variety of feminist and gender theory and explains the relevance to contemporary global politics
Explains the insights of feminist theory for a range of other disciplines including international relations, international political economy and security studies
Addresses a large number of key contemporary issues such as human rights, trafficking, rape as a tool of war, peacekeeping and state-building, terrorism and environmental politics
Features detailed pedagogical tools and resources – seminar exercises, text boxes, photographs, suggestions for further reading, web resources and a glossary of key terms
New chapters on - Environmental politics and ecology; War; Terrorism and political violence; Land, food and water; International legal institutions; Peacebuilding institutions and post-conflict reconstruction; Citizenship; Art, aesthetics and emotionality; and New social media and global resistance.
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This textbook is written by an international line-up of established and emerging scholars from a range of theoretical perspectives, and brings together cutting-edge feminist scholarship in a variety of issue areas.
Key features and benefits of the book:
This text enables students to develop a sophisticated understanding of the work that gender does in policies and practices of global politics.
Pages : 480
Publisher : Routledge
Publication date : 2014-07
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, Sociology, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Gender Studies: Women