Feminist International Relations: 'Exquisite Corpse' (Interventions) - Hardcover

Zalewski, Marysia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415449219 ISBN 13: 9780415449212

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Feminism and the Transformation of International Relations Examines whether feminism has succeeded in transforming International Relations by assessing what feminist theories offer to study of international politics and exploring feminism's relationship with the study of International Relations. Full description

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"This is a brilliant book. It is important, evocative, disturbing, fascinating and engaging. It ranges widely over the disciplines and draws on literary and media approaches to excellent effect, while always in conversation with feminism/IR... It will be among the most quoted, contested and influential of feminist and IR books, and be read well beyond those boundaries." - Jan Jindy Pettman, Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Australia.

Synopsis:

Since its exuberant re-emergence in the 1960s and 1970s, feminism has explicitly claimed to be corrective and transformative and with the exponential growth in feminist scholarship, its success has been anticipated and expected. However, given the ongoing significant and frequently violent impact of international practices associated with gender for both men and women, the promise of feminism remains elusive. This book examines whether feminism has succeeded in transforming International Relations. Marysia Zalewski assesses what feminist theories offer to the disciplinary study of international politics and explores feminism's relationship with the mainstream study of International Relations, particularly the quest to find a middle ground which would satisfy the institutional needs of the discipline of IR and those of feminism.This book provides a critical review of the ways in which feminism aimed to deliver on its inaugural transformative promises in the field of International Relations.

It evaluates the impact of the succession of critical challenges from masculinity studies, poststructuralism, critical race theory and queer theory to feminist scholarship in International Relations. It analyses how feminist work has impacted on the institutional study of international politics. It questions about the potential for feminist transformation remain consistently important to scholars who engage with international politics, whether feminist or not. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of International Politics, International Studies, Globalization Studies, Gender Studies and Political Theory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0415449219
• ISBN 13: 9780415449212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192