POLS5132 explores the contributions and insights offered by feminist and gender scholars in the discipline of International Relations (IR). You are asked to reflect on what it means to recognise gender in the structure, practice and theorising of IR, exploring core subjects in the study and practice of International Relations through a gender lens. Taking this approach allows you to interrogate gendered structures of power and practice, analyse differences or similarities among masculine and feminine subjects in their experience of global politics, and critically assess the kinds of problems presented by efforts to theorise the body in global politics. Throughout, you will be encouraged to develop 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.