Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium

by Peterson, V. Spike; Runyan, Anne Sisson

• ISBN13: 9780813343945
• ISBN10: 0813343941
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-14
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium introduces students to the gendered divisions of world politics today and reveals the power of gender as a meta-lens that keeps gender, race, class, sexual, and national divisions in place, despite limited advances of some women and men on the world political stage. In this completely new edition, the authors apply intersectional analysis to global governance, militarization, global economic restructuring, and environmental degradation. The authors focus on an apparent contradiction-the higher level of attention to gender and women's human rights in a time of fierce militarization, economic inequality, and ecological crisis-and address how the power of gender can be deconstructed to rethink gendered identities, ideologies, structures, and policies. The book emphasizes how using gender to justify or mystify unjust global practices can co-opt hard-won attention to gender equality but also sees promise in struggles to re-radicalize feminist world political demands to improve the conditions of all people and the planet. It also examines the challenges of de-gendering world politics through renewed politics of representation and redistribution. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Anne Sisson Runyan is a professor in and former head of the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments to the Third Edition	p. xi
Acknowledgments to the Second Edition	p. xv
Acknowledgments to the First Edition	p. xix
List of Acronyms	p. xxi
Introduction: Gender and Global Issues	p. 1
Gender and Global Crises	p. 2
Gender Gains: Re-Positionings of Women and Men in World Politics	p. 8
Global Crises: Re-Masculinizations of World Politics	p. 18
Gender and Intersectional Analysis in IR	p. 24
Mapping the Book	p. 28
Gendered Lenses on World Politics	p. 37
How Lenses Work and Why they Matter	p. 38
World Politics Lenses	p. 41
Politicizing Stereotypes, Dichotomies, and Ideologies	p. 47
Feminist Inquiry and Politicizing Gender	p. 59
Denaturalizing Gender	p. 60
The "Power of Gender" as a Meta-lens	p. 65
Intersectional Analysis and "Feminization as Devalorization"	p. 76
Feminist IR Lenses	p. 79
Global Gendered, Racialized, and Sexualized Divisions of Power, Violence, and Labor and Resources	p. 86
Gender and Global Governance	p. 103
Feminist Approaches to Politics	p. 106
Women Actors in Global Governance	p. 107
Barriers to Women's Participation in Global Governance	p. 114
Institutionalizing Global Gender Equality	p. 124
Neoliberal Governmentality and the New Global Politics of Gender Equality	p. 135
Women in Politics Versus Feminist Politics	p. 137
Gender and Global Security	p. 143
Feminist Approaches to Security	p. 145
Gendered Security	p. 148
Women, Militaries, and Political Violence	p. 152
Men, Militaries, and Gender Violence	p. 162
Gendered Peacekeeping and Peacemaking	p. 172
(De) Militarizing Feminism	p. 176
Disarming Security	p. 180
Gender and Global Political Economy	p. 183
Feminist Approaches to Global Political Economy	p. 185
Women and Development	p. 190
Women and Neoliberal Globalization	p. 192
Producing Consent and Crisis	p. 196
Gendering Today's Globalized Economy	p. 200
Gendered Politics of Consumption	p. 214
Gendered Resources	p. 215
Gendered Divisions of Resources	p. 217
Toward Resisting Neoliberalism	p. 226
Gendered Resistances	p. 231
Feminist Resistance Politics	p. 231
Toward De-Gendering World Politics	p. 245
Web Resources	p. 263
References	p. 267
About the Authors	p. 283
Index	p. 285
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