Books in the Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations series

J. Ann Tickner is ranked among the most influential scholars of international relations. As one of the founders of the field of feminist international relations, she is also among the most pioneering. A Feminist Voyage through International Relations provides a compendium of Tickner's work as a feminist IR scholar, from the late 1980s through to present day.

The Women, Peace and Security agenda has developed over the past two decades, anchored in-but far exceeding-a series of resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council that address gender and the governance of peace and conflict. This book presents an analysis of the emergence of the WPS agenda as a knowable policy object, applying narrative and discourse theory to a dataset of publicly available documents published over the past two decades, and original interviewswith people working on and around the WPS agenda at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Despite reforms that have realized major improvements, gender power imbalances within and through peacekeeping missions continue to pose major challenges. Sabrina Karim and Kyle Beardsley explore how increasing the representation of women, particularly through an "equal opportunity" framework, will help peacekeeping operations become more of a vehicle for gender equality globally.

Windows of Opportunity depicts how women's advocacy groups seize peace processes to reconfigure their role in the state. It provides an overview of women's rights found in 195 peace agreements signed between 1975 and 2011 as well as an in-depth analysis of three case studies: Burundi, Macedonia, and Northern Ireland.

By considering representations and narratives of maternity, this volume shows how practices of global politics shape and are shaped by the gendered norms and institutions that underpin motherhood. The chapters in this book consider the meaning of motherhood, particularly during times of war versus peace; the connections between motherhood and nationhood (and reproduction of the state); and care work and maternal labor, particularly as performed by transnationalworkers. Ultimately, this book demonstrates the complex interconnections between the individual, the state, and the global through the lens of maternality.

This book explores the reflections of women in the global North whose "doing good" work is aimed at improving conditions for other women. Drawing on interviews with women NGO workers in seven different European countries about their experiences and perspectives on working on gendered issues affecting women in the global South, this book looks at the ways in which the work they do is embedded in power structures and inequalities.

This American Moment looks at the anxieties that plague American politics, including those that deny the importance of Black Lives Matter and support the subordination of women, particularly as they relate to the election and continued support of President Trump. The book proposes feminist Christian realism, an update on Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian realism, as a way to re-engage the importance of love and relationships in politics.

Two decades ago, V. Spike Peterson published a book titled Gendered States in which she asked, what difference does gender make in international relations and the construction of the sovereign state system? This book aims to connect the earlier debates of Peterson's book with the gendered state today, one that exists within a globalized and increasingly securitized world. Including scholars from International Relations, Postcolonial Studies, and DevelopmentStudies, this volume examines the various ways in which gender explains the construction and interplay of modern states in international relations and global politics.

Rape Loot Pillage offers a new framework for understanding conflict-related sexual violence based on feminist international political economy. By looking at patterns of contemporary conflict this book proposes a new typology of wartime sexual violence that ties the 'value' of this violence to the politico-economic objectives of the perpetrators in different conflict contexts.

How are sovereignty and sexuality entangled in contemporary international politics? By analyzing figurations of "the homosexual" as "the underdeveloped," "the un-developable," "the unwanted im/migrant," "the terrorist," "the gay rights holder," "the gay patriot," and Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst's "bearded lady,".

Gender-based asylum is a strategy that allows those who have experienced gender persecution to find safe haven in the United States. However, it matters not just that but how we respond to this form of violence and persecution.

The Beauty Trade is an analysis of the globalization of beauty products, practices, and ideas, as seen through the lives of youth in Mexico. Far from frivolous, the beauty economy is key to youth's social and economic development.

Intelligent Compassion traces changes in the ideas and policies of the longest-living international women's organization between 1945 and 1975. Focusing on disarmament, decolonization and the Middle East, it finds answers to IR questions about the possibility of emancipatory agency in the theoretical practices of women peace activists.

This book explores the post-national defense and its gender implications. It explores how the United Nations Security Council resolution to increase the participation of women in peace negotiations, humanitarian planning, peacekeeping operations, post-conflict peacebuilding and governance has influenced the organization and policy practices of the post-national defense.

In this book, Erin Kamler brings together feminist international research with the writing, composing, and production of an original musical designed to critique the discourse about the trafficking of women in Thailand. Through this study, Kamler illuminates a theory and praxis that she calls Dramatization as Research, or DAR. Ultimately, Kamler shows how the arts can be used as a feminist communication intervention and a vehicle for understanding the culturaldimension of human rights.

This examination of the European Union and efforts to combat violence against women provides an empirical feminist analysis of the transnational strategies and processes that connect global and grassroots advocacy efforts. It looks beyond policy rhetoric to examine the extent to which this important human rights issue is being addressed.

While feminist economists and movements such as Occupy Wall Street have pointed to the distributional inequalities that are an effect of financial deregulation, scholars haven't really grappled with the representational inequalities inherent in the way we view the politics of the market. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by doing precisely this.

While feminist economists and movements such as Occupy Wall Street have pointed to the distributional inequalities that are an effect of financial deregulation, scholars haven't really grappled with the representational inequalities inherent in the way we view the politics of the market. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by doing precisely this.

Based on an analysis of more than 300 print advertisements as well as television commercials and recruiting websites, this book explores how the U.S. military branches have deployed gender and, in particular, ideas about masculinity to sell military service to potential recruits during the all-volunteer force.

Cosmopolitan Sex Workers examines the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who choose to migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia.

The definitive volume on gender and the ICC, this book makes substantial contributions to the fields of feminist international relations, feminist institutionalism, and historical institutionalism.