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Global Gender Issues

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When 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 non-state 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, labour, 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 reorganising gender relations and international relations as we begin to embrace difference, demand equality, and develop new standards of power and progress.

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Call Number

305.42 Pet g

Publisher

Boulder : Westview Press., 1993

Collation

xiv + 202 pp.; 14,5 x 20,5 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-8133-1310-4

Classification

305.42

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text

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Edition

Print 10th.

Subject(s)

Gender Studies
International Relations

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V. Spike Peterson & Anne Sisson Runyan

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