Feminist Methodologies for International Relations

Brooke A. Ackerly is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Maria Stern is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Peace and Development Research, Göteborg University. She is the author of Naming Security - Constructing Identity: Mayan Women in Guatemala on the Eve of Peace (2005). Jacqui True is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Poltical Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism: The Czech Republic after Communism (2003) and co-author of Theories of International Relations, 3rd edition (2005).

• Introduction; 1. Feminist methodologies for international relations Brooke Ackerly, Maria Stern and Jacqui True; Part I. Methodological Conversations Between Feminist and Non-Feminist International Relations: 2. Feminism meets international relations: some methodological issues J. Ann Tickner; 3. Distracted reflections on the production, narration and refusal of feminist knowledge in international relations Marysia Zalewski; 4. Inclusion and understanding: a collective methodology for feminist international relations S. Laurel Weldon; Part II. Methods for Feminist International Relations: 5. Motives and methods: using multi-sited ethnography to study US national security discourses Carol Cohn; 6. Methods for studying silences: gender analysis in institutions of hegemonic masculinity Annica Kronsell; 7. Marginalized identity: new frontiers of research for IR? Bina D'Costa; 8. From the trenches: dilemmas of feminist IR fieldwork Tami Jacoby; 9. Racism, sexism, classism and much more: reading security-identity in marginalized sites Maria Stern; Part III. Methodologies for Feminist International Relations: 10. Bringing art/museums to feminist international relations Christine Sylvester; 11. Methods of feminist normative theory: a political ethic of care for international relations Fiona Robinson; 12. Studying the struggles and wishes of the age: feminist theoretical methodology and feminist theoretical methods Brooke Ackerly and Jacqui True; 13. Conclusion Brooke Ackerly, Maria Stern and Jacqui True.

'This volume presents a marvellous account of feminist methodologies … This edited volume is instructive in illuminating feminist methodologies and in highlighting the insights gained from them … it takes a difficult topic and should serve as a catalyst for further debate.' Perspectives on Politics