Feminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Part I Introduction......Page 15
1 Looking backwards and forwards at International Relations around feminism......Page 17
Enter feminism......Page 22
Feminist journeying......Page 29
Women and War......Page 32
Not a soldier......Page 33
To war fields......Page 37
Bananas, Beaches, and Bases......Page 43
Nationalism, ethnicity, and the military – and then women......Page 44
Happy hunting......Page 47
Gender in International Relations......Page 54
Gender, women, and feminism......Page 55
Becoming economically secure......Page 57
Echoes in the chambers......Page 62
Part II Sightings......Page 65
3 Handmaids’ tales of Washington power: the abject and the real Kennedy White House......Page 67
Feminists consider bodies, sex, gender, power......Page 71
Who is minding the corpo-real White House?......Page 75
Minders who are not handmaids......Page 77
Sighting the handmaids......Page 80
Kennedy’s difficult decisions......Page 83
Rational decision making......Page 85
Organizational decision making......Page 90
Bureaucratic politics......Page 93
Figures seeping......Page 97
4 Reginas in international relations: occlusions, cooperations, and Zimbabwean cooperatives......Page 99
Reginas and regimes: sites of occlusion......Page 101
Neo-realist minimalists......Page 102
Less minimalist, neoliberal institutionalism......Page 103
Less minimalist multilateralism......Page 105
Gendered cooperations?......Page 107
Cooperations in Zimbabwe?......Page 111
Local meanings of cooperation......Page 116
The outside and inside meet......Page 117
And so?......Page 118
5 The White Paper trailing......Page 120
Security among friends? Confession I......Page 123
(Post)colonial dilemmas: Confessions II......Page 127
Insecuring defense......Page 132
6 Picturing the Cold War: an eye graft/art graft......Page 136
Art and politics: the avant-garde......Page 141
The avant-garde goes “primitive”......Page 146
The avant-garde Cold War......Page 152
Unblinding......Page 159
7 Four international Dianas: Andy’s tribute......Page 161
I. Beautiful pink Diana......Page 163
II. Silver Diana......Page 165
III. Red Di......Page 166
IV. The Diana negative......Page 168
Part III Sitings......Page 171
8 The emperors’ theories and transformations: looking at the field through feminist lenses......Page 173
Neorealism and its precursors......Page 176
World-systems......Page 178
Feminist theorizing......Page 180
Feminist empiricism......Page 181
The single-society bias......Page 182
The bias of impersonal actors and processes......Page 184
The feminist empiricist contribution......Page 185
Feminist standpoint......Page 186
Reconstructing gender-structuring processes......Page 187
The feminist standpoint contribution......Page 190
Feminist postmodernism......Page 191
Smashing the stereotypes......Page 192
Transformations?......Page 193
9 Feminists and realists view autonomy and obligation in international relations......Page 196
Feminist issues of autonomy and obligation......Page 199
Autonomy and obligation in international relations theory......Page 204
Women in the interstices of realist autonomy and obligation......Page 210
Another recasting......Page 216
A chorus of concluding objections......Page 218
10 Some dangers in merging feminist and peace projects......Page 221
A case for merging feminist and peace projects......Page 224
Another way to look at the merger......Page 227
Feminist standpoint perspectives......Page 228
A plethora of standpoints......Page 230
Considering women warrior standpoints......Page 231
Women warrior contingencies of personal biography......Page 232
Women warriors and national contingencies......Page 234
Concludings......Page 237
11 Gendered development imaginaries: shall we dance, Pygmalion?......Page 238
Help......Page 241
Silveira House helps......Page 245
Siting more women in help......Page 247
Partnership for Productivity: Pygmalionesque gender help......Page 249
Imagining Development: the Zimbabwe Women’s Bureau......Page 252
Literature implicating development and gender......Page 254
12 Empathetic cooperation: a feminist method for IR......Page 256
Unempathetic denials of women in IR......Page 261
Empathetic cooperation and feminism......Page 265
Good mothers and good soldiers......Page 272
Walking “home”......Page 274
Good families get international funding?......Page 275
Getting going......Page 277
Part IV Citings......Page 279
13 Feminist arts of International Relations......Page 281
The avant-garde and progress......Page 283
Feminists prime canvases......Page 285
Feminist outlinings......Page 289
Getting into the landscapes......Page 290
Feminist inlining......Page 292
Blurring the lines......Page 293
In(out)lining......Page 295
Traveling to feminist arts......Page 296
Outlining the power......Page 298
A mermaidenly moment......Page 299
14 Internations of feminism and International Relations......Page 301
“Nations” of feminism and International Relations......Page 304
Boundaries and “nations”......Page 307
IR exceeded......Page 311
Feminism exceeded......Page 315
World-traveling the universals......Page 317
World-traveling to internations through fiction......Page 321
Hallucinating Foucault......Page 323
Behind the scenes at the museum......Page 325
The Information......Page 326
What does it mean?......Page 327
References......Page 331
Index......Page 360