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Gender and global politics in the Asia-Pacific / edited by Bina D'Costa and Katrina Lee-Koo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009Edition: First editionDescription: xviii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230611605
  • 9780230611603
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.082095 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1236.5.A78 G454 2009
Online resources:
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.
Summary: "This book demonstrates the integral nature of gendered issues and feminist frameworks for a comprehensive understanding of contemporary IR. It uses feminist frameworks and research to both uncover and reflect upon gender and global politics in the contemporary Asia-Pacific. It also brings together, into a coherent and accessible collection, the work of feminist scholars, teachers, and activists in international relations."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-259) and index.

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.

"This book demonstrates the integral nature of gendered issues and feminist frameworks for a comprehensive understanding of contemporary IR. It uses feminist frameworks and research to both uncover and reflect upon gender and global politics in the contemporary Asia-Pacific. It also brings together, into a coherent and accessible collection, the work of feminist scholars, teachers, and activists in international relations."--Publisher description.

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