Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of gender and security.

The volume is based on the core argument that gender is necessary, conceptually, to thinking about the core issues in Security Studies; important in analyzing causes and predicting outcomes; and essential to thinking about solutions and promoting positive change. Contributions to the volume will look at various aspects of studying gender and security through diverse lenses that engage diverse feminisms, with diverse policy concerns, and working with diverse theoretical contributions from scholars of security more broadly. The handbook will cover four major themes:

• Approaches to security (including theoretical, conceptual, and methodological approaches)
• Gendered insecurities in global politics (including the various ways in which insecurity manifests in the world and the gendered dynamics of these manifestations)
• The practices of security (including practices not normally considered within the remit of conventional approaches to security, such as ethical practice, and popular/cultural practices)
• Security institutions (including national, regional, and international organizations and modes of organization).

This handbook will be of great interest to students of gender studies, security studies and IR in general.

Caron E. Gentry is a lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She is the author of Offering Hospitality: Questioning Christian Approaches to War (2013) and (with Laura Sjoberg) Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores (2015).

Laura Sjoberg is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. She is the author of Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores (with Caron Gentry, 2015); Gender, War, and Conflict (2014); and Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War (2013). She currently serves as co-editor of International Studies Review, and homebase editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.