Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium

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Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium argues that the power of gender works to help keep gender, race, class, sexual, and national divisions in place despite increasing attention to gender issues in the study and practice of world politics. Accessible and student-friendly for both undergraduate and graduate courses, authors Anne Sisson Runyan and V. Spike Peterson analyze gendered divisions of power and resources that contribute to the worldwide crises of representation, violence, and sustainability. They emphasize how hard-won attention to gender equality in world affairs can be co-opted when gender is used to justify or mystify unjust forms of global governance, international security, and global political economy. In the new and updated fourth edition, Runyan and Peterson examine the challenges of forging transnational solidarities to de-gender world politics, scholarship, and practice through renewed politics for greater representation and redistribution. Yet they see promise in coalitional struggles to re-radicalize feminist world political demands to change the downward conditions of women, men, children, and the planet. Updated to include framing questions at the opening of each chapter, discussion questions and exercises at the end of each chapter, and updated data on gender statistics and policymaking. Chapters One and Two have also been revised to provide more support to readers with less of a background in gender politics. Case studies and web resources are now also provided. Contents......Page 10 Acknowledgments to the Fourth Edition......Page 12 Acknowledgments to the Third Edition......Page 16 Acknowledgments to the Second Edition......Page 20 Acknowledgments to the First Edition......Page 24 Acronyms......Page 26 1. Introduction: Gender and Global Issues......Page 30 The Intersectional Study of Gender......Page 31 Gender as a Lens on World Politics......Page 34 Gender and Global Issues......Page 37 Gender and Global Crises......Page 40 Gender Gains: Repositionings of Women and Men in World Politics......Page 46 Global Crises: Remasculinizations of World Politics......Page 54 Mapping the Book......Page 59 2. Gendered Lenses on World Politics......Page 68 How Lenses Work and Why They Matter......Page 69 The Power of Gender......Page 83 The Power of Gender as a Meta-Lens in World Politics......Page 93 Feminist World Politics Lenses......Page 102 Global Gendered Divisions of Power, Violence, Labor, and Resources......Page 111 3. Gender and Global Governance......Page 128 Feminist Approaches to Politics......Page 131 Women Actors in Global Governance......Page 133 Barriers to Women's Participation in Global Governance......Page 140 Institutionalizing Global Gender Equality......Page 150 Neoliberal Govermentality and the New Global Politics of Gender Equality......Page 160 Women in Politics Versus Feminist Politics......Page 162 4. Gender and Global Security......Page 168 Feminist Approaches to Security......Page 171 Gendered Security......Page 173 Women, Militaries, and Political Violence......Page 177 Men, Militaries, and Gender Violence......Page 187 Gendered Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peace-Building......Page 198 (De)Militarizing Feminism......Page 202 Disarming Security......Page 206 5. Gender and Global Political Economy......Page 210 Feminist Approaches to Global Political Economy......Page 214 Women, Gender, and Development......Page 217 Anatomies of Neoliberal Globalization......Page 222 Women, Gender, and Neoliberal Globalization......Page 229 Gendered Financialization......Page 244 Gendered Resources......Page 250 Gendered Divisions of Resources......Page 252 Toward Resisting Neoliberalism......Page 261 6. Gendered Resistances......Page 266 Feminist Resistance Politics......Page 267 Toward Degendering World Politics......Page 284 Suggested Activities for Research and Discussion......Page 302 Web and Video Resources......Page 310 References......Page 318 About the Authors......Page 338 Index......Page 340