Gendering World Politics

by J.Ann Tickner

Expanding on the issues she originally explored in her classic work, Gender in International Relations, J. Ann Tickner focuses her distinctively feminist approach on new issues of the international relations agenda since the end of the Cold War, such as ethnic conflict and other new security issues, globalizations, democratization, and human rights. As in her previous work, these topics are placed in the context of brief reviews of more traditional approaches to the same issues. She also looks at the considerable feminist work that has been published on these topics since the previous book came out.

Tickner highlights the misunderstandings that exist between mainstream and feminist approaches, and explores how these debates developed in the new environment of post–Cold War international relations.

Acclaim for Tickner's Gender in International Relations :

"For all who seek new ways to think about and understand world politics"

― Political Science Quarterly

"Tickner... rethinks from a feminist point of view virtually every conventional category used by theorists and practictioners of international relations."―Susan Moller Okin, Stanford University

Genres: International Relations, Feminism, Politics, Grad School, Academic, Nonfiction

262 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2001

Reviews

[Meli · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book for a graduate school IR theories class, though it is something I would have picked up as pleasure reading outside of school requirements. Below is the book review I wrote for my assignment:

tl;dr: fantastic book, highly recommend. The writing style can get a bit tedious and repetitive but the short length of the book avoids that from happening just so. Great review of the evolution of IR, feminist, and feminist IR lit with some interaction with the different schools of thought. Book used to demonstrate why gender matters in IR to address a phenomenon in which feminism has become an "approach" in IR (rather than a standard) and to address the gap between feminist IR and mainstream IR.

[Leajk · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read it for my political science class. It's fairly slim and an easy read but I unfortunately didn't learn too much from it. There more rethorics than actual data or stories.