Gendering War and National Security

Presented by:Professor J Ann Tickner
School of International Relations, University of Southern California

Theories and policy practices associated with war and international security have, for the most part, been a masculine domain. Women have stereotypically been associated with peace, and Women’s Studies as an academic discipline has tended to stay away from these issues. This lecture will offer some explanations as to why this is the case and suggest some ways in which feminists in the discipline of International Relations have begun to bridge this divide and offer us some new ways to understand war and international security and their gendered practices.