Revisiting Gendered States: Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations
Swati Parashar, J. Ann Tickner, and Jacqui True
Abstract
State sovereignty and autonomy in the twenty-first century are both under challenge and continually reasserted in diverse ways through gender, sexuality, and race-making. This paradox makes it pertinent to revisit the idea of states as gendered political entities. Bringing together scholars from international relations and postcolonial and development studies, this volume collectively theorizes the modern state and its intricate relationship to security, identity politics, and gender. Drawing on postcolonial and critical feminist approaches, together with empirical case studies, contributors e ... More
State sovereignty and autonomy in the twenty-first century are both under challenge and continually reasserted in diverse ways through gender, sexuality, and race-making. This paradox makes it pertinent to revisit the idea of states as gendered political entities. Bringing together scholars from international relations and postcolonial and development studies, this volume collectively theorizes the modern state and its intricate relationship to security, identity politics, and gender. Drawing on postcolonial and critical feminist approaches, together with empirical case studies, contributors engage with the ontological foundations of the modern state and its capacity to adapt to the global and local contestations of its identity, histories, and purpose. They examine the various ways in which gender explains the construction and interplay of states in global politics today; and how states, be they neoliberal, postcolonial, or religious (or all three together), impact the everyday lives and security of their citizens. Such a rich array of feminist analyses of multiple kinds of states provides crucial insight into gender injustices in relatively stable states, but also into the political, economic, social, and cultural inequalities that produce violent conflicts threatening the sovereignty of some states and even leading to the creation of new states.
Keywords:
gender,
feminism,
state,
security,
postcolonial,
international relations,
gendered state,
emotions,
queer politics,
manly state
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190644031 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2018 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190644031.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Swati Parashar, editor
Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, Monash University
J. Ann Tickner, editor
Professor Emerita, School of International Relations, University of Southern California
Jacqui True, editor
Professor of Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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