Gender and International Security: Feminist Perspectives Book

Notes on contributors ix

Acknowledgments xiv

Introduction Laura Sjoberg 1

Part I Gendered lenses envision security 15

1 Theses on the military, security, war and women Judith Hicks Stiehm 17

2 War, sense, and security Christine Sylvester 24

3 Gendering the state: performativity and protection in international security Jonathan D. Wadley 38

Part II Gendered security theories 59

4 Gendering the cult of the offensive Lauren Wilcox 61

5 Gendering power transition theory Laura Sjoberg 83

6 The genders of environmental security Nicole A. Detraz 103

Part III Gendered security actors 127

7 Loyalist women paramilitaries in Northern Ireland: beginning a feminist conversation about conflict resolution Sandra Mcevoy 129

8 Securitization and de-securitization: female soldiers and the reconstruction of women in post-conflict Sierra Leone Megan Mackenzie 151

9 Women, militancy, and security: the South Asian conundrum Swati Parashar 168

Part IV Gendered security problematiques 189

10 Feminist theory and arms control Susan Wright 191

11 Beyond border security: feminist approaches to human trafficking Jennifer K. Lobasz 214

12 When are states hypermasculine? Jennifer Heeg Maruska 235

13 Peace building through a gender lens and the challenges of implementation in Rwanda and Côte d' Ivoire Heidi Hudson 56

Index 280