Masculinities, Gender and International Relations
By Terrell Carver and Laura Lyddon
Published
Sep 6, 2022Page count
218 pagesISBN
978-1529212297Dimensions
216 x 240 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 6, 2022Page count
218 pagesISBN
978-1529212280Dimensions
216 x 240 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 6, 2022Page count
218 pagesISBN
978-1529212303Dimensions
Imprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 6, 2022Page count
218 pagesISBN
978-1529212303Dimensions
Imprint
Bristol University PressGender is widely recognized as an important and useful lens for the study of International Relations. However, there are few books that specifically investigate masculinity/ies in relation to world politics.
Taking a feminist-inspired understanding of gender as its starting point, the book:
• explains that gender is both an asymmetrical binary and a hierarchy;
• shows how masculinization works via ‘nested hierarchies’ of domination and subordination;
• explores the imbrication of masculinities with the nation-state and great-power politics;
• develops an understanding of the arms trade with commercial processes of militarization.
Written in an accessible style, with suggestions for further reading, this book is an invaluable resource for students and teachers applying ‘the gender lens’ to global politics.
Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol.
Laura Lyddon is Research Development Associate at the University of Bristol.
1. Wasn’t It Always Just About Men Anyway?
2. Sovereign States, Warring States, Queer States
3. Arms and the Men
4. Gender at Work! ‘Get Pissed and Buy Guns’
5. Looking Back/Pushing Ahead