Description: Christine Sylvester examines the history of feminists' efforts to include gender relations in the study of international relations. Tracing the author's own "journey" through the subject, as well as the work of the other leading feminist scholars, the book examines theories, methods, people and locations which have been neglected by conventional scholarship. It will be of interest to scholars and students of International Relations, Women's and Gender Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.
Brief description: Christine Sylvester is Professor of Women and Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands. Her publications include Producing Women and Progress in Zimbabwe: Narratives of Identity and Work from the 1980s (2000), Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era (1994) and Zimbabwe: The Terrain of Contradictory Development (1991).
Review Quotes: "...inspiring, innovative, challenging...Sylvester's feminist voyage through International Relations has produced some extraordinarily good work." Contemporary Sociology