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Gender and global politics in the Asia-Pacific
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Gender and global politics in the Asia-Pacific

Author: Bina D'Costa; Katrina Lee-Koo
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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This book demonstrates the integral nature of gendered issues and feminist frameworks for a comprehensive understanding of contemporary IR bringing together the work of feminist scholars, teachers and  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Bina D'Costa; Katrina Lee-Koo
ISBN: 0230611605 9780230611603
OCLC Number: 226357087
Description: xviii, 266 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Preface : how Jindy Pettman redrew my mental map / Cynthia Enloe --
Critical feminist international relations in the Asia-Pacific / Bina D'Costa and Katrina Lee-Koo --
"Worlding women" in international law / Hilary Charlesworth --
Gendered economies in the Asia-Pacific / V. Spike Peterson --
The "kitsch" of war : misappropriating Sun Tzu for an American imperial hypermasculinity / Ching-Chane Hwang and L.H.M. Ling --
When the UN "succeeds" : the case of Cambodia / Sandra Whitworth --
Feminizing global governance / Shirin M. Rai --
Confessions of a failed feminist IR scholar : feminist methodologies in practice in Peshawar / Anne McNevin --
One woman's everyday resistance : an empowering yet cautionary tale from Vietnam / Kim Huynh --
Women's engagement with Islam in South and Southeast Asia / Shakira Hussein --
Gender mainstreaming in a post-conflict state : toward democratic peace in Timor-Leste? / Nina Hall and Jacqui True --
Shifting terrains of transnational engagement : women's organizing in Fiji / Nicole George --
Reclaiming Pacific Island regionalism : does neoliberalism have to reign? / Claire Slatter and Yvonne Underhill-Sem --
A feminist politics of region? : reflecting and revisioning IR from Asia and the Pacific / Jindy Pettman --
Afterword / J. Ann Tickner.
Responsibility: edited by Bina D'Costa and Katrina Lee-Koo.
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"This volume is an exciting tribute to the intellectual contribution of Jan Jindy Pettman who has been a path-breaker in feminist international relations theory. It brings together many of the key

"This is an excellent example of the contemporary range of international feminist scholarship. An inspired and inspirational book - it would be a valuable addition to both feminist IR reading lists as well as mainstream ones. Reading gender through and in global politics, this book tells us a great deal about the powerful, intricate and intimate workings of contemporary global politics."--Marysia Zalewski, Reader in Gender Studies, University of Aberdeen Read more...

 
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