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Global Gender IssuesSecond Editionby V Spike Peterson, Anne Sisson Runyan Dec 29, 1998
DescriptionWhen we look at world politics through a different set of lenses—ones that reveal how the power of gender blinds us to the presence of women in international affairs—we begin to see what lies below the surface of the interstate power exchanges called international relations. Some women wield traditional international power as heads of state. There are also women in positions of less visible state and nonstate power, many of whom seek a more equal and just global order. And there are billions of women who bear, feed, clothe, and care for the world—whether as mothers, farmers, textile workers, electronics assemblers—yet have no formal political power. Global Gender Issues connects the inequalities between women and men with the “world politics” of power, security, economy, and ecology. Through history, visual imagery, theoretical analysis, and other narrative techniques, V. Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan alert us to gendered differences of power, violence, labor, and resources. In doing so, they suggest linkages between and among so-called women’s issues and such world political matters as wars of secession, arms proliferation, global economic recession, and environmental degradation. At the same time, the authors hold out for us a clearly articulated, undogmatic hope for redefining and reorganizing gender relations and international relations as we begin to embrace difference, demand equality, and develop new standards of power and progress. Reviews“Using their wonderful mix of humor, theory, and graphic evidence, Peterson and Runyan show just how the international has become personal. Going further, they reveal exactly why it matters that we (all of us, teachers and students together) acquire the special skills needed to dig deeply into this global political gendering process. My hunch is that students will carry the lessons from this book into all of their other classes.” “A highly readable textbook for undergraduates that describes both women’s roles in world politics and the impact of world politics on women’s roles.… Highly thought-provoking and informative.” “Peterson and Runyan’s gender lenses will help many students and not a few professors to see the inequalities of world politics in provocative new ways. Feminist reconceptualizations of politics, power, autonomy and violence are clearly explained and used critically to illuminate contemporary military, labor, resource use and environmental exploitation practices.… an excellent supplementary text for multiparadigmatic introductions to world politics.” Selling TerritoryWorld |
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