Gender, Race, and Power

Examining IR through an Intersectional Lens

By: Joyce P. Kaufman, Kristen P. Williams

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Hardcover | 15 October 2024

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There are currently many books and articles that look at aspects of gender or race and international relations but none that embrace a broad intersectional approach (in terms of both gender and race that goes beyond a postcolonial perspective) to the study of the field. After introducing the approach, Kaufman and Williams then proceed through critical issues in international relations and the ways in which an intersectional approach that examines race, gender, class, ethnicity, and power can help us arrive at better explanations for these IR issues.

The approach in this text builds on what many of the feminist IR theorists called for to address traditional issues such as security and war. Feminist IR theorists, led by scholars such as Ann Tickner and Cynthia Enloe, asked the question "Where are the women?" as a guiding principle. Feminist approaches to IR have been a part of the field for decades, but it is only fairly recently that students of IR have broadened the approach to the field to incorporate the dimensions of race, ethnicity, and class as well as gender. Thus, we ask questions like: How does gender matter for understanding war and peace? How does race matter? Where are the men? What is intersectionality in IR? How does an intersectional approach change/broaden our understanding of international relations?

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Gender, Race, and Power: Examining IR through an Intersectional Lens models an approach of grounding research on international relations with an intersectional theoretical framework. By using intersectionality as a guide for understanding complex and global case-studies, Kaufman and Williams reveal important power disparities that must be understood if we are invested in understanding inequities around the globe. Intersectionality is a thread that connects each of these case-studies to the study of power and how it manifests across different contexts of human security, the global economy, climate change and more. International relations cannot be fully understood without attention to intersectionality, and Kaufman and Williams illuminate why this theoretical approach is so important for understanding global problems and solutions.

--Margaret Perez Brower, University of Washington

Kaufman and Williams offer a much-needed and accessible examination of International Relations through the lenses of race, gender, and socioeconomics. The authors explain the myriad ways in which gender, race, empire, and power intersect and shape the core of every key issue in the field of International Relations. Gender, Race, and Power should be essential reading for every Introduction to International Relations course.

--Kerry F. Crawford, James Madison University

Kaufman and Williams present a powerful pedagogical tool for students of gender and IR. Both challenging and robust, this textbook does not hesitate to challenge many preconceptions in the fields of political and IR theory with their intersectional approach. This will be a seminal book for students and faculty who wish to develop a nuanced understanding of the politics-policy-ethics nexus of the security debate.

--Elisabeth Hope Murray, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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