Gender in Global Politics: Money, Sex and Death - POLS5132
Description
This course explores the contributions and insights offered by feminist and gender scholars in the discipline of International Relations (IR). Students are asked to reflect on what it means to recognise gender in the structure, practice and theorising of IR. This programme will explore core subjects in the study and practice of International Relations through a gender lens, tracing the development of a 'canon' of feminist IR. Taking this approach ensures that the course interrogates gendered structures of power and practice, analyses differences or similarities among masculine and feminine subjects in their experience of global politics, and critically assesses the kinds of problems presented by any project of theorising bodies in global politics. Throughout, the course will encourage the development of an informed awareness of specific issues relating to broader concerns around 'money, sex and death' in global politics, including financial practices, economic globalisation, practices and policies of 'gender mainstreaming', rape, genocide, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and postconflict reconstruction.