Gender Matters in Global Politics, 2nd Edition

Useful Links

Chapter 1

Feminist international relations: Making sense...
Marysia Zalewski
  • Judith Butler on ‘Your Behavior Creates your Gender’. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7o2LYATDc.
  • Guerilla Girls, Inc., the website of the Guerilla Girls, ‘was established by two founding Guerrilla Girls and other members to continue the use of provocative text, visuals and humour in the service of feminism and social change’. Available at http://www.guerrillagirls.com/.
  • The F Word is a contemporary UK feminist blog. Available at http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/.
  • Women in Black (WiB) is a worldwide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence. Available at http://www.womeninblack.org.uk/.
  • Everyday Sexism Project exists to catalogue instances of sexism experienced by women on a day to day basis. Available at http://www.everydaysexism.com/.

Chapter 2

Ontologies, epistemologies, methodologies
Lene Hansen

Chapter 3

Sex or gender? Bodies in global politics and why gender matters
Laura J. Shepherd

Chapter 4

Postcolonial theories and challenges to ‘first world-ism’
A. M. Agathangelou and Heather Turcotte

Chapter 5

Ethics
Kimberly Hutchings

Chapter 6

Environmental politics and ecology
Emma A. Foster

Chapter 7

Body politics: Gender, sexuality and human rights
Jill Steans

Chapter 8

Trafficking in human beings
Barbara Sullivan

Chapter 9

War
Swati Parashar

General information on international networks/organisations:

Activist networks, war experiences and survivor stories:

Chapter 10

Militarism
Cynthia Cockburn
  • An unofficial light-hearted guide to the US military, including military humour. Available at http://usmilitary.about.com. Taking a feminist lens to this site reveals a great deal about gender and sexism in the military.
  • Zene u Crnom (Women in Black) is a thoughtful, analytical, brave and super-active women’s organization in Belgrade, their slogan ‘Always disobedient to patriarchy, war, nationalism and militarism.’ See their articles, photos, posters online. Available at www.zeneucrnom.org.
  • Amnesty International. Available at www.amnestyinternational.org. Click on ‘Library’ and search by keywords and country to access hundreds of reports by this human rights organization detailing in painful detail the experiences of women in war and post-war conditions.
  • Peacewomen website. Available at www.peacewomen.org. Set up after the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, in 2000, this is an ultra-informative website on the Resolution, accompanying texts and progress on implementation.
  • UNIFEM’s portal on gender and war. Available at www.womenwarpeace.org. Through this portal, UNIFEM strives to provide, and to encourage researchers, policy makers, analysts and NGOs to contribute, all the information and analysis that is currently available on the impact of armed conflict on women and women’s role in peacebuilding.

Chapter 11

Terrorism and political violence
Caron Gentry and Laura Sjoberg

Chapter 12

The ‘war on terrorism’
Krista Hunt

Chapter 13

Genocide and mass violence
Adam Jones
  • Gendercide Watch website, with a wealth of resources and academic works. Available at www.gendercide.org.
  • A global advocacy network, PreventGenocide.org. Available at www.preventgenocide.org.
  • A report sponsored by the United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights, ‘Revised and Updated Report on the Question of the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide’ (The Whitaker Report), 2 July 1985. Available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/09/24/shattered-lives.
  • A Human Rights Watch report from 1996, Shattered Lives: Sexual Violence during the Rwanda Genocide and Its Aftermath. Available at http://hrw.org/reports/1996/Rwanda.htm.
  • WikiGender on ‘Gender and Genocide in the Bosnian War’. Available at http://www.wikigender.org/index.php/Gender_genocide_in_the_Bosnian_war.

Chapter 14

Sexual violence in war
Donna Pankhurst

Chapter 15

International/global political economy
V. Spike Peterson
  • University of California Atlas of Inequality combines GIS and database technology with internet multimedia components to provide online resources that enable users to examine global change. Available at http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/index.php
  • The UN’s global development network is an organisation advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. Available at http://www.undp.org/.
  • UN Women merges and extends the work of four previously distinct units, providing technical and financial support to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality.  Available at http://www.unwomen.org.
  • War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership with people affected by globalisation. Available at http://www.waronwant.org/.
  • The International Labour Organisation is the UN agency that brings together governments, employers and workers in common action to promote decent work throughout the world. Available at http://www.ilo.org/.

Chapter 16

Production, employment and consumption
Juanita Elias and Lucy Ferguson

Chapter 17

Land, food and water
Monika Barthwal-Datta and Soumita Basu

Chapter 18

Development and neoliberal globalisation
Penny Griffin

 

Chapter 19

Mainstreaming gender in international institutions
Jacqui True

Chapter 20

International criminal law
Rosemary Grey

Chapter 21

Peacekeeping
Nadine Puechguirbal

Chapter 22

Peacebuilding
Laura J. Shepherd

Chapter 23

Migration
Jindy Pettman with Lucy Hall

 

Chapter 24

Religion
Katherine Brown

Chapter 25

Nationalism
Dibyesh Anand

Chapter 26

Citizenship
Denise Horn

Chapter 27

Transnational activism
Valentine Moghadam

Chapter 28

Art, aesthetics and emotionality
Emma Hutchison and Roland Bleiker

Chapter 29

Popular culture and the politics of the visual
Christina Rowley
  • The Women’s Media Center has the goal of making women visible and powerful in the media. Available at http://womensmediacenter.com, Twitter handle: @womendsmediacntr.
  • Feminist Frequency is a video webseries by Anita Sarkeesian that explores the representation of women in pop culture narratives. Sarkeesian also highlights issues surrounding the targeted harassment of women in online and gaming spaces. Available at http://www.feministfrequency.com/, Twitter handle: @femfreq.
  • Founded in 2007, Muslimah Media Watch is a forum on which Muslim Women critique how their images appear in the media and popular culture. Available at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw, Twitter handle: @MMWtweets.
  • The mission of The Feminist Wire is to provide socio-political and cultural critique of anti-feminist, racist and imperialist politics pervasive in all forms and spaces of private and public lives of individuals globally. Available at http://thefeministwire.com/about-us/mission-vision/, Twitter handle: @feministwire.
  • The Everyday Sexism Project catalogues instances of sexism experienced by women on a day-to-day basis. It started in the UK but now has websites for different countries and in different languages. Available at http://everydaysexism.com, Twitter handle: @everydaysexism.

Chapter 30

Sex, gender, and cyberspace
M. I. Franklin

Chapter 31

New social media and global resistance
Suzanne Levi-Sanchez and Sophie Toupin
  • FemTechNet is a network of scholars, artists, and students who work on, with, and at the borders of technology, science and feminism. From September to December 2013, FemTechNet organised the first iteration of a Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC) on the topic of ‘Dialogues on Feminism and Technology’. Available at http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/.
  • Ada is a feminist, multimodal, peer-reviewed open access journal that examines the intersections of gender, new media, and technology. It is a publication of the Fembot Collective. Available at http://adanewmedia.org/.
  • The 27 issue of .dpi an open-access feminist journal of art and digital culture is dedicated to hacktivism. Available at http://dpi.studioxx.org/en/no/ 27-hacktivism.
  • The Tactical Technology Collective created a series of video animations to raise awareness about the risks of using new technologies for advocacy work. Available at https://www.tacticaltech.org.  
  • You can also visit the security in a box tools and tactics the Tactical Technology Collective designed for human rights defenders and the LGBT community. Available at https://securityinabox.org/
  • List of tech tools for activists. Available at www.prism-break.org.