Recommended Reading List and Resources

The following list includes recommended reading and resources addressing gender analysis and critical feminist perspectives across international affairs:

Valerie Hudson et al., The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide (2020)

Carol Cohn (Editor), Women and Wars (2013)

Laura Sjoberg (Editor), Gender and International Security (2009)

Laura Sjoberg, Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War (2013).

J. Ann Tickner, Gender in International Relations (1992).

J. Ann Tickner and Laura Sjoberg (Editors), Feminism and International Relations (2011).

Cynthia Enloe, The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy (2017).

Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (Second Edition, 2014).

Eric Blanchard, “Rethinking International Security: Masculinity in World Politics,”Brown Journal of World Affairs (Fall-Winter 2014).

David Duriesmith, Masculinity and New War (2017).

Cynthia Cockburn, “Gender Relations as Causal in Militarization and War,” International Feminist Journal of Politics (2010).

Valerie Hudson et al., Sex and World Peace (2012).

Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict (2018).

Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace and Security (2019).

Jeff Hearn, “Men/Masculinities: War/Militarism – Searching (for) the Obvious Connections?” in Making Gender, Making War (2012); pp. 35-48.

Promundo, Masculine Norms and Violence (2018); pp. 6-23, 67-77.

Megan, MacKenzie. Beyond the Band of Brothers: The US Military and the Myth that Women Can’t Fight (2015).

Anne Witkowsky, “Integrating Gender Perspectives Within the DoD,” PRISM (2016).

Megan Bastick and Claire Duncanson, “Agents of Change? Gender Advisors in NATO Militaries,” International Peacekeeping (2018).

Kerry Crawford, Wartime Sexual Violence (2017).

Claire Duncanson, Gender and Peacebuilding (2016).

Karen Engle, The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict (2020).

Kathleen Kuehnast, Chantal de Jonge Oudraat and Helga Hernes, Women and War (2011).

Alicia Luedke et al., Sexual Violence, Exploitation and Abuse, U.S. Institute of Peace (2017).

Laura Sjoberg, Gender, War and Conflict (2014).

Laura Sjoberg and Caron Gentry (Eds.) War, Gender and Terrorism (2011).

Jessica Davis, Women in Modern Terrorism (2017).

J. Ann Tickner and Jacqui True, “A Century of International Relations Feminism,” International Studies Quarterly,” (June 2018); pp. 221-231.

Nicole Detraz, “Too Little Security? Gender and the Securitization of the Environment,” Gender and the Environment (2017); pp. 120-145.

UN Women, Turning Promises Into Action: Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2018); pp. 1-19 (skim the case studies).

United Nations, Gender, Climate and Security (June 2020)

Aisling Swaine, “Pursuing Gender Security,” in Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace and Security (2019)

David Duriesmith, Engaging Men and Boys in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda,

LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security (2017)

Jamille Bigio and Rachel Vogelstein, “Women Under Attack: The Backlash Against Female Politicians,” Foreign Affairs (Jan.-Feb. 2020); pp. 131-138.

Roudabeh Kishi and Louise Olsson, How Does Political Violence Target Women?

PRIO (Oct. 2019)

Shannon Zimmerman, The Value of a Feminist Foreign Policy, Women In International Security (Feb. 2020).