Revisiting Gendered States

Swati Parashar is Senior Lecturer with the Peace and Development Program at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, as well as an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre at Monash University. Her research engages with the intersections between feminism and postcolonialism, focused on conflict and development issues in South Asia. She is the author of Women and Militant Wars: The Politics of Injury. J. Ann Tickner is Professor Emerita in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, and Distinguished Scholar in Residence in the School of International Service at American University. She is also Professor of Politics and International Relations at Monash University. Her principle areas of research include international theory, peace and security, and feminist approaches to international relations. Her publications include Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War World and A Feminist Voyage Through International Relations. Jacqui True is Professor of Politics & International Relations, and Director of Monash University's Centre for Gender, Peace and Security. She is also an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. Her current research is focused on understanding the political economy of post-conflict violence against women and the patterns of systemic sexual and gender-based violence in Asia Pacific conflict-affected countries. Her recent publications include The Political Economy of Violence Against Women and edited with Aida Hozic, Scandalous Economics: The Politics of Gender and Financial Crises.

Preface
-V. Spike Peterson
About the Contributors
1. Introduction: Feminist Imaginings of 21st Century Gendered States
-Swati Parashar, J. Ann Tickner, and Jacqui True

2. Rethinking the State in International Relations: A Personal Reflection
-J. Ann Tickner

3. Bringing Back Gendered States: Feminist Second Image Theorizing of International Relations
-Jacqui True

4. Manly States and Feminist Foreign Policy: Revisiting the Liberal State as an Agent of Change
-David Duriesmith

5. Rescuing the State? Sovereignty, Identity, and the Gendered Re-articulation of the State
-Christine Agius

6. Gendered State Assemblages and Temporary Labor Migration: The Case of Sri Lanka
-Samanthi J. Gunawardana

7. Mother Russia in Queer Peril: The Gender Logic of the Hypermasculine State
-Cai Wilkinson

8. A Global South State's Challenge to Gendered Global Cultures of Peacekeeping
-Lesley J. Pruitt

9. The Gendered State and the Emergence of a Post-conflict, Post-disaster Semi-autonomous Form of State (Aceh, Indonesia)
-Katrina Lee-Koo

10. The Postcolonial/Emotional State: Mother India's Response to Her Deviant Maoist Children
-Swati Parashar

11. Violence and Gender Politics in Forming the Proto-State "Islamic State"
-Katherine E. Brown

Afterwards
-Christine Sylvester
References
Index