Description:
The series offers a home for interdisciplinary research on Women, Peace and Security in theory and practice. The Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda was established with the adoption of Resolution 1325 by the UN Security Council in 2000. UNSCR1325 highlighted the need to consolidate data and knowledge on the differential impact of violence and inequality on women and girls, men and boys during and after armed conflict and to highlight the potential of inclusive peace-making to prevent, end and recover from wars.
The series features scholarly studies that examine these gendered impacts of violence and inequality in global, regional, and local peace and security contexts. It highlights research that investigates how Women, Peace and Security is put into practice as well as contested by a diverse array of actors including security and development practitioners, peacekeepers and peacebuilders, diplomats, advocacy networks and social movements.
Series editors:
Sara E. Davies, Professor of International Relations, Griffith University (sara.davies@griffith.edu.au).
Jacqui True, Professor of International Relations, Monash University (jacqui.true@monash.edu).
Editorial board:
Sara Nuzhat Amin, University of South Pacific
Miriam Anderson, Toronto Metropolitan University
Julie Ballangarry, Griffith University
Bhavani Fonseka, CPA, Sri Lanka
Keshab Giri, St Andrews University
Meenakshi Gopinath, WISCOMP, India
Heidi Hudson, University of the Free State
Fiona Hukula, Pacific Islands Forum
Joan Johnson-Freese, Harvard Extension University
Sabrina Karim, Cornell University
Henri Myrttinen, Gender Associates
Robert Nagel, Georgetown University
Sylvie Namwase, Makere University
Torunn Tryggestad, PRIO
Stéfanie von Hlatky, Queen's University
Clare Wenham, LSE
Katharine Wright, Newcastle University
Julia Zulver, Swedish Defence University
Review Quotes:
Hilary Matfess has done a real favor for the Women, Peace, and Security and/or Feminist Security Studies fields: she has penned a short, readable summary of the main topics for undergraduates and laypersons. This has been a frustrating lacuna for some time: while there are numerous books pitched at graduate-level courses, there really wasn't a smaller book one could assign as an adjunct text in, say, an undergraduate Intro to IR or IR Theory or Intro to National Security class. And there certainly wasn't an accessible book you could offer to your non-academic friends to help them understand WPS or FSS. Matfess' compact, pithy volume covers all the essentials; women and national security; women and the national economy; women as political leaders and participants. It's all here, both easily digestible and inexpensive. Brava!
- Valerie M. Hudson, Texas A&M University