Description - Worlding Women by Jan Jindy Pettman
Until very recently, women have been invisible in International Relations; gender has not been considered a relevant category; and feminist scholarship has not been admitted into IR. The impression then has been either that women are not in IR - as if the state, war and wealth making are men's business - or else that men and women are affected by international politics and processes in the same ways. Worlding Women writes women, gender relations and feminist scholarship into 'the international', and interrogates international aspects of women's lives and feminist politics. The book is organised into three parts. The first is on international political identities and the role of international processes in constructing political identities within states. It explores the gendered makings of states, citizenship, colonial relations and racism, nationalisms, migration and postcolonial identities, and women's experiences of these identity politics. The second part focuses on war and peace, exploring the popular associations of men with war, and women with peace. Pettman examines women warriors and sexual politics in state militaries, before analysing what women have to do with war.
The third part focuses on the international sexual division of labour including the growing feminisation of the global assembly line and the gendered politics of development, environment and population. It analyses contemporary kinds of international traffic in women and suggests the notion of an international political economy of sex. Worlding Women concludes with a review of women's organising internationally and of the possibilities and problems of transnational and international feminisms.
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