Gender and Sexuality

Personal-Political Imaginations: Feminism, Gender and Security in Serbia

Laura McLeod • Jul 17 2015 • Articles

To understand how particular meanings of ‘gender security’ come about, it’s necessary to pay attention to personal-political imaginations of conflict and post-conflict.

LGBT Pride: Marching on the Front Lines

Elise Carlson-Rainer • Jul 1 2015 • Articles

Pride events remain a critical moment of visibility of the LGBT movement. But the global movement will continue to progress and create new alliances for gaining equality.

Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation in Conflict Situations as a Security Risk

Muna Ndulo • Jun 22 2015 • Articles

Child abuse should be declared a collective security problem. The widespread nature of child abuse in UN missions requires appropriate response from the Security Council.

Review – Sexing War/Policing Gender

Federica Caso • Jun 8 2015 • Features

Åhäll’s volume explores cultural representations of female political agency and female political violence through the metanarrative of motherhood.

The Militarized Gym

Chris Hendershot • Mar 24 2015 • Articles

Militarized determinations of physical exercise means to appreciate how Anglo pursuits of leisure and health cannot at all be assumed to be globally healthy or leisurely.

What You Say is What You Get: The Gender Problem in IR

Elizabeth Mendenhall • Feb 26 2015 • Articles

Replacing “man-made” with “anthropogenic” will not solve the gender problem in IR, but it will increase the visibility of our quotidian contributions to patriarchy.

Queering Paradigms: From Individual Resistance to Global-Local Impact

Bee Scherer • Feb 23 2015 • Articles

Performative scholarship as activism promises further advances in Social Justice. Ethically, there is no ‘mere criticality’; there is always also societal responsibility.

Women’s Empowerment and Atrocities Prevention

Sarah Teitt • Nov 11 2014 • Articles

As review conferences are approaching, now is time to ask how leveraging linkages between the agendas might contribute toward enhancing capacity for conflict prevention.

The Peloponnesian War and Killer Robots: Norms of Protection in Security Policy

Matthew Bolton and Cayman Mitchell • Aug 29 2014 • Articles

We need not be grateful for the ‘protection’ of killer robots; we may instead mimic Lysistrata and humanize the very structure of protection in the 21st century.

Review – Women and Militant Wars: The Politics of Injury

Zuzana Hrdličková • Aug 14 2014 • Features

Despite some imprecisions, Parashar’s insightful case studies highlight an under-discussed topic: the politics of militant women and the gendered understanding of war.

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