Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics
About the Book Series
In this series, we aim to publish books that work with, and through, feminist insights on global politics. This series welcomes scholarship on any aspect of global political practices, broadly conceived, that pays attention to the ways in which gender is central to, (re)produced in, and is productive of, such practices. We embrace a broad, intersectional understanding of feminism, politics, and gender, and are open to different theoretical, methodological and disciplinary approaches, including but not limited to queer, decolonial, Indigenous, and posthuman perspectives.
There is growing recognition both within the academy and in global political institutions that gender matters in and to the practices of global politics. From the governance of peace and security, to the provision of funds for development initiatives, and from transnational advocacy networks to justice campaigns, theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded feminist work has highlighted that these processes have a gendered dimension.
The series aims to be genuinely global in scope. We welcome submissions from scholars in/of the global South. Both monographs and edited volume proposals are welcome. The series is also multi-disciplinary, publishing work from across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences with a global aspect and political focus.
Gender, Emancipation, and Political Violence: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Colvin, Katharina Karcher
September 30, 2020
This volume presents and interrogates both theoretical and artistic expressions of the revolutionary, militant spirit associated with "1968" and the aftermath, in the specific context of gender. The contributors explore political-philosophical discussions of the legitimacy of violence, the gender ...
Female Combatants after Armed Struggle: Lost in Transition?
1st Edition
By Niall Gilmartin
June 30, 2020
This book stems from a simple ‘feminist curiosity’ that can be succinctly summed up into a single question: what happens to combatant women after the war? Based on in-depth interviews with 40 research participants, mostly former combatants within the Irish Republican Army (IRA), this book ...
Gendering Peace: UN Peacebuilding in Timor-Leste
1st Edition
By Sarah Smith
June 30, 2020
In 1999, after 24-years of violent military occupation by Indonesian forces, the small country of Timor-Leste became host to one of the largest UN peace operations. The operation rested on a liberal paradigm of statehood, including nascent ideas on gender in peacebuilding processes. This book ...
Gender, Governance and Feminist Analysis: Missing in Action?
1st Edition
Edited
By Christine M Hudson, Malin Rönnblom, Katherine Teghtsoonian
February 11, 2020
This edited volume presents critical scholarship analysing governance practices in diverse jurisdictions in Europe and North America, at multiple scales, and in relation to several different arenas of policy and practice. The contributors address shortcomings in the mainstream literature on ...
Women, Global Protest Movements, and Political Agency: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Colvin, Katharina Karcher
January 14, 2020
This volume analyses and historicises the memory of 1968 (understood as a marker of an emerging will for social change around the turn of that decade, rather than as a particular calendar year), focusing on cultural memory of the powerful signifier '68' and women’s experience of revolutionary ...
Human Capital in Gender and Development
1st Edition
By Sydney Calkin
November 08, 2019
Human Capital in Gender and Development addresses timely feminist debates about the relationship between feminism, neoliberalism, and international development. The book engages with human capital theory, a labour economics theory associated with the Chicago School that now animates a wide range of...
Marriage Trafficking: Women in Forced Wedlock
1st Edition
By Kaye Quek
November 08, 2019
This book examines the traffic in women for marriage, a phenomenon that has been largely overlooked in international efforts to address the problem of human trafficking. In contrast to current international and state-based approaches to trafficking, which tend to focus on sex trafficking and ...
Feminism, Prostitution and the State: The Politics of Neo-Abolitionism
1st Edition
Edited
By Eilis Ward, Gillian Wylie
March 21, 2019
This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences. A model of state policy which aims to abolish prostitution through legislation, Neo-abolitionism criminalises the buyer of sex but not the seller. It is currently ...
Masculinity and New War: The gendered dynamics of contemporary armed conflict
1st Edition
By David Duriesmith
January 17, 2019
This book advances the claims of feminist international relations scholars that the social construction of masculinities is key to resolving the scourges of militarism, sexual violence and international insecurity. More than two decades of feminist research has charted the dynamic relationship ...
Why Women Rebel: Understanding Women's Participation in Armed Rebel Groups
1st Edition
By Alexis Henshaw
January 17, 2019
Why Women Rebel presents a global analysis of the extent to which women are engaged in armed, organized rebellions, and why they choose to join such rebellions. Henshaw has collected and analyzed data on women’s participation in over 70 post-Cold War rebel groups. The book provides a ...