Revisiting Gendered States: Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations

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Two decades ago, V. Spike Peterson's Gendered States asked what difference gender makes in international relations and the construction of the sovereign state system. This book connects the earlier debates of Peterson's book with the gendered state today, one that exists within a globalized and increasingly securitized world. Bringing together an international group of contributors from the Global South, United States, Europe, and Australia, this volume answers three overarching questions. First, it answers whether the concept of a "gendered state" is generic or if some states are particularly gendered in their identities and interests, and with what implications for the type of citizenship, society, and international security. Second, it looks at the continued theoretical significance of the gendered state for current IR scholarship. And, finally, it explains to what extent postcolonial states are distinctive from metropolitan states with regard to gender. Including scholars from International Relations, Postcolonial Studies, and Development Studies, this volume collectively theorizes the modern state and its intricate relationship to security, identity politics, and gender. With a preface by V. Spike Peterson, this book aims to connect the earlier debates of Peterson's book with the gendered state today, one that exists within a globalized and increasingly securitized world. Bringing together an international group of contributors from the Global South, United States, Europe, and Australia, this volume will answer three overarching questions. First, it will answer whether the concept of a "gendered state" is generic or if some states are particularly gendered in their identities and interests, and with what implications for the type of citizenship, society, and international security. Second, it will look at the continued theoretical significance of the gendered state for current IR scholarship. And, finally, it will explain to what extent postcolonial states are distinctive from metropolitan states with regard to gender. Including scholars from International Relations, Postcolonial Studies, and Development Studies, this volume collectively theorizes the modern state and its intricate relationship to security, identity politics, and gender. Cover......Page 1 Half title......Page 2 Series......Page 3 Revisiting Gendered States......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Foreword......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 14 About the Contributors......Page 16 1. Introduction: Feminist Imaginings of Twenty-​First-​Century Gendered States......Page 22 Part I: Stating Gender and Gendering States......Page 38 2. Rethinking the State in International Relations: A Personal Reflection......Page 40 3. Bringing Back Gendered States: Feminist Second Image Theorizing of International Relations......Page 54 Part II: The Making of the Gendered State......Page 70 4. Manly States and Feminist Foreign Policy: Revisiting the Liberal State as an Agent of Change......Page 72 5. Rescuing the State? Sovereignty, Identity, and the Gendered Re-​articulation of the State......Page 90 6. Gendered State Assemblages and Temporary Labor Migration: The Case of Sri Lanka......Page 106 Part III: Troubling the Gendered State......Page 124 7. Mother Russia in Queer Peril: The Gender Logic of the Hypermasculine State......Page 126 8. A Global South State’s Challenge to Gendered Global Cultures of Peacekeeping......Page 143 9. The Gendered State and the Emergence of a Postconflict, Postdisaster, Semiautonomous State: Aceh, Indonesia......Page 159 Part IV: Gender in Troubled States......Page 176 10. The Postcolonial/​Emotional State: Mother India’s Response to Her Deviant Maoist Children......Page 178 11. Violence and Gender Politics in the Proto-State “Islamic State”......Page 195 Afterwards......Page 212 References......Page 218 Index......Page 246