Gender and Crisis in Global Politics

Informationen zum Autor Laura Sjoberg is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. Her work has been published in more than three dozen journals in Political Science, Law, International Relations, Gender Studies, and Geography. She is author or editor of ten books, including, most recently, Gender, War, and Conflict (Polity, 2014) and Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores (with Caron Gentry, 2015). Her current projects include an edited volume on quantitative methods in critical and constructivist IR, Interpretive Quantification (with J. Samuel Barkin, forthcoming), and a book on women’s perpetration of conflict sexual violence, Impossible Women, Impossible Crimes. Zusammenfassung This book considers contemporary crises in global politics theoretically and empirically through feminist lenses, asking what the gendered stakes are in the naming, management, and analysis of crisis. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Gender and Crisis in Global Politics: Introduction 2. Revisiting IR in a Time of Crisis: Learning from Indigenous Knowledge 3. Winning the Battle but Losing the War on Violence: A Feminist Perspective on the Declining Global Violence Thesis 4. Power of the First Hour: Is There a Transnational Breastfeeding Crisis? 5. Crisis Narratives and Masculinist Protection: Gendering the Original Stockholm Syndrome 6. "Tapping" Women for Post-Crisis Capitalism: Evidence from the 2012 World Development Report 7. Northern Crises: Women’s Relationships and Resistances to Resource Extractions

Product details

• Authors: Laura (University of Florida Sjoberg
• Assisted by: Laura Sjoberg (Editor), Sjoberg Laura (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2016
• EAN: 9781138690356
• ISBN: 978-1-138-69035-6
• No. of pages: 138
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, International Relations, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls