Franklin, M. I.. 2014. Sex, Gender, and Cyberspace. In: Laura J Shepherd, ed. Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations, 2nd Edition. London and NY: Routledge, pp. 375-388. ISBN 978-0415715218 [Book Section]

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Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Gender Matters in Global Politics is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates studying feminism & international relations, gender and global politics and similar courses. It provides students with an accessible but in-depth account of the most significant theories, methodologies, debates and issues.

This textbook is written by an international line-up of established and emerging scholars from a range of theoretical perspectives, and brings together cutting-edge feminist scholarship in a variety of issue areas.

Key features and benefits of the book:
•Introduces students to the wide variety of feminist and gender theory and explains the relevance to contemporary global politics
•Explains the insights of feminist theory for a range of other disciplines including international relations, international political economy and security studies
•Addresses a large number of key contemporary issues such as human rights, trafficking, rape as a tool of war, peacekeeping and state-building, terrorism and environmental politics
•Features detailed pedagogical tools and resources – seminar exercises, text boxes, photographs, suggestions for further reading, web resources and a glossary of key terms
•New chapters on - Environmental politics and ecology; War; Terrorism and political violence; Land, food and water; International legal institutions; Peacebuilding institutions and post-conflict reconstruction; Citizenship; Art, aesthetics and emotionality; and New social media and global resistance.

This text enables students to develop a sophisticated understanding of the work that gender does in policies and practices of global politics.

Item Type:	Book Section
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event 2014 Published
Item ID:	14318
Date Deposited:	20 Oct 2015 14:51
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2017 14:17
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/14318

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