Gender and Sexuality

Does Gender Matter When Discussing Foreign Policy and International Relations?

Matthew A. Hill • Oct 12 2012 • Articles

A feminist analysis of international relations is often placed at the end of a university module syllabus. How could a gender discussion be better incorporated into a module syllabus?

UNSCR 1325 in Northern Ireland: Opportunities, Challenges and Complexities

Melanie Hoewer • Oct 2 2012 • Articles

The unique positioning of Northern Ireland brings to light both the challenges and the innovation potential arising out of implementation processes of UNSCR 1325 at the official state and the community levels.

Review – Gender, Sex and the Postnational Defence

Katharine Wright • Sep 29 2012 • Features

In Gender, Sex and the Postnational Defence, Annica Kronsell challenges an assumption that gender mainstreaming is more achievable than gender parity in military organisations.

Birthing on the Front Line: A Tale of Military Femininity

Roberta Guerrina • Sep 26 2012 • Articles

When a British soldier gave birth at Camp Bastion last week it was reported with shock in the media. This story is a useful illustration of why women in the armed forces and the nature of gender roles are worthy of discussion.

NATO’s Implementation of UN SCR 1325

Katharine Wright • Sep 22 2012 • Articles

NATO has utilised UN SCR 1325 on ‘Women, Peace and Security’ as a tool to justify advocating increasing women in the military in order to counter manpower shortages.

Contextualizing Pussy Riot in Russia and Beyond

Jennifer Suchland • Aug 28 2012 • Articles

The trial of Pussy Riot and its larger issues are an indication of extreme repression. Yet, the tentacles of that repression extend across the globe – reaching far beyond Putin’s Russia.

Feminism’s Influence on Iceland’s Foreign Policy

Silja Bara Omarsdottir • Aug 21 2012 • Articles

Sustained pressure on government and an increasing number of women in the Foreign Service provides support to the claim that feminism has influenced Icelandic foreign policy.

Masculinity in IR: Feminist Interventions

Brett Remkus • Aug 16 2012 • Articles

Feminist scholarship has highlighted a problem in studying gender within IR, which rests not in the problem of “missing men” but rather the elision of women and women’s perspectives.

Counterinsurgency and Gender: The Case of the Female Engagement Teams

Annick T.R. Wibben and Keally McBride • Jul 17 2012 • Articles

Since 2009 the U.S. Marines have deployed Female Engagement Teams as part of its COIN effort. How does this relate to the gendering of COIN?

Seeing Gender in International Security

Laura Sjoberg • Jun 5 2012 • Articles

Gender is not the only lens, idea, concept, or ‘variable’ that one needs to explain security. But, security cannot be fully defined, understood, or obtained without the aid of feminist theorizing.

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