Gendering the International

DENNIS ALTMAN Professor of Politics, School of Social Sciences, Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia WILLIAM A. CALLAHAN Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, and Deputy Director, Centre of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Durham TERRELL CARVER Professor of Political Theory, Department of Politics, University of Bristol VAL PLUMWOOD ARC Fellow, RIHSS, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia SIMONA SHARONI Assistant Professor, Evergreen College, Washington State, USA GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK Avalon Foundation Professor, Department of Humanities, Columbia University JUDITH SQUIRES Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Bristol NEFERTI XINA M. TADIAR Assistant Professor, History of Consciousness

In Gendering the International, the contributors explore the different ways of analyzing gender in international studies beyond the state-centric perspective of International Relations (IR). They contend IR is a set of gendered practices, by critically examining ways in which gender discourses are deployed in the analyses of 'the international'.In Gendering the International, the contributors explore the different ways of analyzing gender in international studies beyond the state-centric perspective of International Relations (IR). They demonstrate that it is possible to think about 'the international' beyond the traditional framework of IR. They contend IR is a set of gendered practices, by critically examining ways in which gender discourses are deployed in the analyses of 'the international'. Furthermore, they reflect on the interactions between gender and globalizing forces in a post-colonial environment.