The book is a follow-up to the influential volume, The 'Man' Question in International Relations. This new edition aims to integrate masculinity studies and feminist theorizing by analyzing white male privilege within international relations, the role of masculinity within the theory and practice of war and masculinity in an increasingly militarized world. It looks at how the theories and practice of masculinity affect international issues. Using a global approach it covers contemporary and cutting-edge issues and themes, including chapters on the cyborg soldier, post-traumatic stress and the hyper-masculine Muslim male.
Author(s): Jane Parpart, Marysia Zalewski
Publisher: Zed Books
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 234
Contents
......Page 6
Acknowledgements
......Page 7
Preface: the man question, gender and global power
......Page 9
The
'man' question......Page 18
Knowledge in 'dark times'......Page 21
Rethinking the man question
......Page 26
Concluding thoughts: feminist leaps of imagination?
......Page 32
Notes
......Page 33
References
......Page 34
At the Sex Frontier
......Page 38
One | Cognitive short cuts
......Page 40
What is 'masculinity' in international politics?
......Page 41
Masculinity and grand theories of international politics
......Page 48
Conclusion
......Page 57
Notes
......Page 58
References
......Page 61
Thinking about privilege
......Page 64
Illuminating how white male privilege shapes IR theory
......Page 68
Making decisions for everyone
......Page 74
Setting the agenda, while
presuming innocence......Page 78
Faith in existing authority and power structures
......Page 80
Towards a conclusion
......Page 81
Notes and references
......Page 83
Mending the Helicopter
......Page 86
Metaphors, masculinities, militaries
......Page 87
War and peace
......Page 96
Conclusions
......Page 101
Notes and references
......Page 102
Desiring cyborgs
......Page 104
The interface: militarized masculinity and cyborg soldiers
......Page 108
Fleshy politics
......Page 119
Notes and references
......Page 121
How the Children were Born
......Page 125
Five | Militarized masculinity and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
......Page 126
Making soldiers
......Page 128
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
......Page 132
Conclusions
......Page 138
Notes and references
......Page 139
Six | Contesting the masculine state
......Page 144
Militarizing
masculinities......Page 145
Iconic objection
......Page 149
Bosbefok masculinities
......Page 152
Response and compromise
......Page 153
Conclusion
......Page 155
Notes and references
......Page 156
Seven | National myths and the creation of heroes
......Page 160
Why Kosovo?
......Page 161
Bringing in Butler
......Page 166
A new start for state and heroes
......Page 167
Male bodies in the fight for the nation
......Page 168
Homosexuality as insurrection
......Page 171
Conclusion: insurrectionary potential
......Page 173
Notes and references
......Page 174
War's Imperial Museum
......Page 179
Nationalism as a love of the self
......Page 180
Potency and nationalism
......Page 183
Porno-nationalism
......Page 186
Mobilizing desire, desiring mobilization
......Page 189
Reconceptualizing nationalism as a fear of the self
......Page 192
Notes
......Page 193
References
......Page 194
Asking the man question in Zimbabwe
......Page 198
Manhood and womanhood in colonial Zimbabwe
......Page 199
Manhood, masculinity/ies and gender in the struggle for power:1964-80
......Page 202
Conclusion
......Page 213
Notes
......Page 214
References
......Page 215
How a Long Way Off Rolled Itself Up
......Page 220
Afterword
......Page 221
Notes on contributors
......Page 224
Index
......Page 228
