Expanding on the issues she originally explored in her classic work, Gender in International Relations, J. Ann Tickner focuses her distinctively feminist approach on new issues of the international relations agenda since the end of the Cold War, such as ethnic conflict and other new security issues, globalizations, democratization, and human rights. As in her previous work, these topics are placed in the context of brief reviews of more traditional approaches to the same issues. She also looks at the considerable feminist work that has been published on these topics since the previous book came out.

Tickner highlights the misunderstandings that exist between mainstream and feminist approaches, and explores how these debates developed in the new environment of post--Cold War international relations.

Acclaim for Tickner's Gender in International Relations:

For all who seek new ways to think about and understand world politics

— Political Science Quarterly

Tickner... rethinks from a feminist point of view virtually every conventional category used by theorists and practictioners of international relations. — Susan Moller Okin, Stanford University

Expanding on the issues she originally explored in her classic work, "Gender in International Relations, " J. Ann Tickner focuses her distinctively feminist approach on new issues of the international relations agenda since the end of the Cold War, such as ethnic conflict and other new security issues, globalizations, democratization, and human rights.

WITH THE PUBLICATION of Gender in International Relations in 1992, J. Ann Tickner ushered in an era where the role of women and gender in the study and practice of international relations could not be overlooked. Gendering World Politics expands on the approach she originally explored in her classic work and applies it to new issues that have become prominent in IR since her last book appeared.

International relations feminists frequently make different assumptions about the world, ask different questions, and use different methodologies to answer them. Gendering World Politics is the road map that shows how traditional IR and the new feminist approach part ways. Whereas IR has typically analyzed security issues either from a structural perspective or at the level of the state and its decisionmakers, feminists focus on how world politics can contribute to the insecurity of individuals, particularly marginalized and disempowered populations.

Tickner highlights issues such as human rights and globalization that have come to the forefront since the end of the cold war, and she takes a survey of the considerable amount of feminist work that has been published in this field during the 1990s.

Tickner focuses her distinctively feminist approach on new issues of the international relations agenda since the end of the Cold War, such as ethnic conflict and other new security issues, globalizations, democratization, and human rights.