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Global gender issues in the new millennium [electronic resource] / V. Spike Peterson, Anne Sisson Runyan

Author
Peterson, V. Spike
Published
Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Edition
3rd ed.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 300 pages)
Additional Creators
Runyan, Anne Sisson and Peterson, V. Spike
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Contents
Acknowledgments to the Third Edition -- Acknowledgments to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments to the First Edition -- List of acronyms -- 1. Introduction: Gender And Global Issues. Gender and global crises -- Gender gains: re-positionings of women and men in world politics -- Global crises: re-masculinizations of world politics -- Gender and intersectional analysis in IR -- Mapping the book -- 2. Gendered Lenses On World Politics. How lenses work and why they matter -- World politics lenses -- Politicizing stereotypes, dichotomies, and ideologies -- Feminist inquiry and politicizing gender -- Denaturalizing gender -- Power of gender as a meta-lens -- Intersectional analysis and "feminization as devalorization" -- Feminist IR lenses -- Global gendered, racialized, and sexualized divisions of power, violence, and labor and resources -- 3. Gender And Global Governance. Feminist approaches to politics -- Women actors in global governance -- Barriers to women's participation in global governance -- Institutionalizing global gender equality -- Neoliberal governmentality and the new global politics of gender equality -- Women in politics versus feminist politics -- 4. Gender And Global Security. Feminist approaches to security -- Gendered security -- Women, militaries, and political violence -- Men, militaries, and gender violence -- Gendered peacekeeping and peacemaking -- (De)militarizing feminism -- Disarming security -- 5. Gender And Global Political Economy. Feminist approaches to global political economy -- Women and development -- Women and neoliberal globalization -- Gendered financial matters -- Producing consent and crisis -- Gendering today's globalized economy -- Gendered politics of consumption -- Gendered resources -- Gendered divisions of resources -- Toward resisting neoliberalism -- 6. Gendered Resistances. Feminist resistance politics -- Toward de-gendering world politics -- Web resources -- References -- About the authors -- Index.
Summary
"Uses gender analytics to deconstruct the concepts of gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation that, in interlocked ways, order the world in terms of identities, ideologies, structures, and policies"--Provided by publisher.
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ISBN
9780813391618 (electronic bk.)
081339161X (electronic bk.)
9780813343945 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813343941 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Note
Rev. ed. of: Global gender issues. 2nd ed. 1999.
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-281) and index.
Technical Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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