Rethinking the Man Question Sex, Gender and Violence in International Relations

by Parpart, Jane; Zalewski, Marysia

• ISBN13: 9781842779798
• ISBN10: 1842779796
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-15
• Publisher: ZED BOOKS

Summary

The book is a follow-up to the influential volume,The 'Man' Question in International Relations. This new edition aims to integrate masculinity studies and feminist theorizing by analyzing white male privilege within international relations, the role of masculinity within the theory and practice of war and masculinity in an increasingly militarized world. It looks at how the theories and practice of masculinity affect international issues. Using a global approach it covers contemporary and cutting-edge issues and themes, including chapters on the cyborg soldier, post-traumatic stress and the hyper-masculine Muslim male.

Author Biography

Jane L. Parpart is visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and the Gender Institute, and Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University. Marysia Zalewski is Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Aberdeen.

Table of Contents

Foreward

Poem: At the Sex Frontier

Introduction: Re-thinking the Wo/man Question in International Relations: an overview

Betraying Boundaries: Re-thinking the Wo/man Question in International Relations

Cognitive Shortcuts: Masculinity Discourses in Theories of Contemporary International Politics

Interrogating White Male Privilege in International Relations

The Machine in the Man: metaphor, masculinity and militarization

Bodies of Technology: Cyborg Soldiers and Militarized Masculinity

Militarized Masculinity and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

National Myths and the Creation of Heroes: a Narrative Performance in post-conflict Kosovo

Masculiniy/ties, Gender and Violence in the Making of Zimbabwe

Contesting the Masculine State: War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa

Porno-Nationalism and the Male Subject: An ethnography of Hindu Nationalist Imagination in India

Afterword

Foreward

Poem: At the Sex Frontier

Introduction: Re-thinking the Wo/man Question in International Relations: an overview

Betraying Boundaries: Re-thinking the Wo/man Question in International Relations

Cognitive Shortcuts: Masculinity Discourses in Theories of Contemporary International Politics

Interrogating White Male Privilege in International Relations

The Machine in the Man: metaphor, masculinity and militarization

Bodies of Technology: Cyborg Soldiers and Militarized Masculinity

Militarized Masculinity and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

National Myths and the Creation of Heroes: a Narrative Performance in post-conflict Kosovo

Masculiniy/ties, Gender and Violence in the Making of Zimbabwe

Contesting the Masculine State: War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa

Porno-Nationalism and the Male Subject: An ethnography of Hindu Nationalist Imagination in India

Afterword

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