Feminist International Relations
An Unfinished Journey

Examines the history of feminists' efforts to include gender in the study of international relations.

Christine Sylvester (Author)

9780521796279, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 20 December 2001

368 pages
22.7 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.54 kg

'… a tantalizing read that teases the reader into critical reflection about feminist theory and IR theory as much through its style as through its substantive claims. Most of all, it provokes the reader through its refusal to assert any definitive conclusion about what feminism brings to IR or IR to feminism. The book is more than an intellectual autobiography (though it certainly is that) - it also a serious contribution to the ongoing dialogue between feminist and IR theory.' Ethics and International Affairs

In this book, Christine Sylvester examines the history of feminists' efforts to include gender relations in the study of international relations. Tracing the author's own 'journey' through the subject, as well as the work of other leading feminist scholars, the book examines theories, methods, people and locations which have been neglected by conventional scholarship. It will be of interest to scholars and students of international relations, women's and gender studies, and postcolonial studies.

Part I. Introductions: Part II. Sightings: 1. Handmaids' tales of Washington power: the abject and the real Kennedy White House
2. Reginas in international relations: occlusions, cooperations, and Zimbabwean cooperatives
3. The white paper trailing
4. Picturing the Cold War
an eyegraft/art graft
5. Four international Dianas: Andy's tribute
Part III. Sitings: 6. The emperors theories and transformations
looking at the field through feminist lenses
7. Feminists and realists view autonomy and obligation in international relations
8. Some dangers in merging feminist and peace projects
9. Gendered development imaginaries: shall we dance Pygmalion?
10. Emphatic cooperation: a feminist method for IR
Part IV. Citings: 11. Feminist arts of international relations
12. Internations of feminism and international relations.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS], Gender studies: women [JFSJ1], Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ]