Gender Matters in Global Politics - A Feminist Introduction to International Relations

Gender Matters in Global Politics is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates studying politics, international relations, development and similar courses. It provides students with an accessible but in-depth account of feminist methodologies, gender theory and feminist approaches to key topics and themes in global politics.

This textbook is written by an international line-up of established and emerging scholars from a range of theoretical perspectives, bringing together cutting-edge feminist scholarship in a variety of areas.

This fully revised and updated third edition:

• introduces students to feminist and gender theory and explains the relevance to contemporary global politics;
• explains the insights of feminist theory for a range of fields of study, including international relations, international political economy and security studies;
• presents feminist approaches to key contemporary issues s