Handbook on Gender and Security
Published on 22. April 2025
Book
Hardback
452 pages
978-1-80392-835-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Handbook on Gender and Security presents a comprehensive overview of the connections between gender and (in)security in international relations. Authors from various disciplines showcase their innovative research, illustrating how past and recent developments have shaped our understandings of this relationship.
Contributors adopt novel theoretical approaches and empirical methods to explore the effects and dynamics of security threats. They highlight the significant diversity in definitions of both gender and security, introducing refined ways of understanding the connection between the two, focusing on topics including war, violence, climate change, pandemics, and criminal networks, as well as feminist action. The Handbook identifies fruitful avenues for future research in the field, surveying gender-related security policy at the international, national and regional levels.
The Handbook on Gender and Security is an essential resource for students and scholars of International Relations, Security Studies, and Gender Politics. It is also a vital read for policy-makers seeking to understand the significant impact of gender on experiences of and vulnerabilities to security threats.
Contributors adopt novel theoretical approaches and empirical methods to explore the effects and dynamics of security threats. They highlight the significant diversity in definitions of both gender and security, introducing refined ways of understanding the connection between the two, focusing on topics including war, violence, climate change, pandemics, and criminal networks, as well as feminist action. The Handbook identifies fruitful avenues for future research in the field, surveying gender-related security policy at the international, national and regional levels.
The Handbook on Gender and Security is an essential resource for students and scholars of International Relations, Security Studies, and Gender Politics. It is also a vital read for policy-makers seeking to understand the significant impact of gender on experiences of and vulnerabilities to security threats.
Reviews / Votes
'This welcome Handbook surveys the breadth of feminist security studies in light of critiques of coloniality, debates on method, questionings of feminist foreign policy, and a context of war, climate change and pandemic. Including leading scholars, it enlarges our field of vision to see emerging and cutting-edge research agendas. An invaluable resource for getting up-to-date quickly!' -- Elisabeth Pruegl, Geneva Graduate Institute, SwitzerlandMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80392-835-7 (9781803928357)
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Edited by Jutta Joachim, Associate Professor of Global Security Governance, Department of Political Science, Radboud University, the Netherlands, Annica Kronsell, Professor of Environmental Social Science, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Natalia Dalmer, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Institute of Political Science, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Content
Contents
1 Introduction: mapping the gendered dimensions of global (in)securities in
the 21st century 1
Jutta Joachim, Annica Kronsell and Natalia Dalmer
SECTION ONE GENDER AND (IN)SECURITY
2 Disrupting gender in feminist security narratives 11
Leena Vastapuu and Annick T.R. Wibben
3 Sex, gender, sexuality and international in/security 23
Luise Bendfeldt and Laura Sjoberg
4 Ontological insecurity and the gendered postcolonial subject 38
Catarina Kinnvall and Christine Agius
5 Feminist geopolitics: gender and the everyday production of insecurity
through public information campaigns 50
6 The European Union as an intersectionally gendered security actor: toward
a feminist postcolonial research agenda 62
SECTION TWO FEMINISM, GENDER, AND FOREIGN POLICY
7 Interrogating the 'feminist' in feminist foreign policy 78
Karoline Faerber and Jennifer Thomson
8 Researching feminist foreign policy in militarising times 88
Annika Bergman Rosamond
9 The EU's external LGBT+ rights promotion and the promise of gender(ed)
equality 100
Markus Thiel
10 The transformative potential of feminist foreign policy:is there hope? 112
SECTION THREE GENDER(ING) SECURITY ACTORS, WAR AND VIOLENCE
11 Gender sidestreaming: why women remain scarce in international peace
and security 127
Vanessa Newby and Chiara Ruffa
12 "Tanks, tracks, troopers": military masculinity in digital space 145
Natalie Jester
13 Women in combat roles in state militaries - what can they teach us? 157
Ayelet Harel
14 The gendered composition of child soldiers and conflict-related sexual
violence 170
15 Between traditional mafias and c-yberorganized crime: the roles of women
in online and offline drug trafficking networks 183
Jana Arsovska, Felia Allum and Marie-Helen Maras
16 Women's participation in piracy in Somalia and the Niger Delta 197
Brittany VandeBerg, Katja Lindskov Jacobsen and Susan Dewey
SECTION FOUR GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE, NATURAL
DISASTERS, AND PANDEMICS
17 United Nations bureaucracies and knowledge creation on women,
peacebuilding, and natural resources 210
Natalia Dalmer
18 Visualizing the nexus of gender inequality, armed conflict, and climate
change 223
Jody M. Prescott
19 Climate change and gender-based violence in Colombia: peacebuilding,
feminism and the special jurisdiction for peace 235
Natalia Urzola and Maria Paula Gonzalez Espinel
20 Rethinking climate security: understanding climate change through a
gendered climate security frame 250
21 Human security, patriarchy and its manufactured insecurities: addressing
capabilities, inclusivity and intersectionality for gender transformative
change 262
Maleeha Aslam
22 Conflict and cooperation: understanding the spectrum of coping strategies
amongst pastoralist communities in Northern Kenya 275
Nitya Rao, Alena Mizinova, Oliver Wasonga, and Staline Kibet
SECTION FIVE GENDER AND POST-CONFLICT SETTINGS
23 Analyzing cultures of militarized sexual abuse within peacekeeping 288
Phoebe Donnelly, Evyn Papworth, and Dyan Mazurana
24 Gender as a structuring force in conflict and its aftermath: research on
international intervention in Afghanistan 299
Hannah Partis-Jennings
25 What does the 'post' in 'post-conflict' do? Telling stories about genderbased violence after war 314
Harriet Gray
26 Women-to-women diplomacy: peacebuilding amidst shifting conditions of
(in)security 327
Magda Lorena Cardenas and Elisabeth Olivius
27 Preparing for the next window: the endurance of feminist peace activism 339
Miriam J. Anderson
28 Beyond the presidents and the penniless: women perpetrators of violence 350
Izabela Steflja
SECTION SIX GENDERING NEW (IN)SECURITIES
29 Understanding the anti-gender movement's securitization of the 'traditional
family' 363
Martijn Mos
30 Radical right populism, gender and sexual politics and democratic (in)
stability 380
Alessia Dona
31 Diverse sexual orientations and gender identities in conflict and
displacement 391
Zeynep Pinar Erdem, Onen David Ongwech, Philipp Schulz and Henri
Myrttinen
32 Redefining (in-)security in cybersecurity: an intersectional lens 404
Anwar Mhajne and Crystal Whetstone
33 Gender-based violence in WASH: a threat to global health security 417
Abraham Marshall Nunbogu and Susan J. Elliot
Index 430
1 Introduction: mapping the gendered dimensions of global (in)securities in
the 21st century 1
Jutta Joachim, Annica Kronsell and Natalia Dalmer
SECTION ONE GENDER AND (IN)SECURITY
2 Disrupting gender in feminist security narratives 11
Leena Vastapuu and Annick T.R. Wibben
3 Sex, gender, sexuality and international in/security 23
Luise Bendfeldt and Laura Sjoberg
4 Ontological insecurity and the gendered postcolonial subject 38
Catarina Kinnvall and Christine Agius
5 Feminist geopolitics: gender and the everyday production of insecurity
through public information campaigns 50
6 The European Union as an intersectionally gendered security actor: toward
a feminist postcolonial research agenda 62
SECTION TWO FEMINISM, GENDER, AND FOREIGN POLICY
7 Interrogating the 'feminist' in feminist foreign policy 78
Karoline Faerber and Jennifer Thomson
8 Researching feminist foreign policy in militarising times 88
Annika Bergman Rosamond
9 The EU's external LGBT+ rights promotion and the promise of gender(ed)
equality 100
Markus Thiel
10 The transformative potential of feminist foreign policy:is there hope? 112
SECTION THREE GENDER(ING) SECURITY ACTORS, WAR AND VIOLENCE
11 Gender sidestreaming: why women remain scarce in international peace
and security 127
Vanessa Newby and Chiara Ruffa
12 "Tanks, tracks, troopers": military masculinity in digital space 145
Natalie Jester
13 Women in combat roles in state militaries - what can they teach us? 157
Ayelet Harel
14 The gendered composition of child soldiers and conflict-related sexual
violence 170
15 Between traditional mafias and c-yberorganized crime: the roles of women
in online and offline drug trafficking networks 183
Jana Arsovska, Felia Allum and Marie-Helen Maras
16 Women's participation in piracy in Somalia and the Niger Delta 197
Brittany VandeBerg, Katja Lindskov Jacobsen and Susan Dewey
SECTION FOUR GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE, NATURAL
DISASTERS, AND PANDEMICS
17 United Nations bureaucracies and knowledge creation on women,
peacebuilding, and natural resources 210
Natalia Dalmer
18 Visualizing the nexus of gender inequality, armed conflict, and climate
change 223
Jody M. Prescott
19 Climate change and gender-based violence in Colombia: peacebuilding,
feminism and the special jurisdiction for peace 235
Natalia Urzola and Maria Paula Gonzalez Espinel
20 Rethinking climate security: understanding climate change through a
gendered climate security frame 250
21 Human security, patriarchy and its manufactured insecurities: addressing
capabilities, inclusivity and intersectionality for gender transformative
change 262
Maleeha Aslam
22 Conflict and cooperation: understanding the spectrum of coping strategies
amongst pastoralist communities in Northern Kenya 275
Nitya Rao, Alena Mizinova, Oliver Wasonga, and Staline Kibet
SECTION FIVE GENDER AND POST-CONFLICT SETTINGS
23 Analyzing cultures of militarized sexual abuse within peacekeeping 288
Phoebe Donnelly, Evyn Papworth, and Dyan Mazurana
24 Gender as a structuring force in conflict and its aftermath: research on
international intervention in Afghanistan 299
Hannah Partis-Jennings
25 What does the 'post' in 'post-conflict' do? Telling stories about genderbased violence after war 314
Harriet Gray
26 Women-to-women diplomacy: peacebuilding amidst shifting conditions of
(in)security 327
Magda Lorena Cardenas and Elisabeth Olivius
27 Preparing for the next window: the endurance of feminist peace activism 339
Miriam J. Anderson
28 Beyond the presidents and the penniless: women perpetrators of violence 350
Izabela Steflja
SECTION SIX GENDERING NEW (IN)SECURITIES
29 Understanding the anti-gender movement's securitization of the 'traditional
family' 363
Martijn Mos
30 Radical right populism, gender and sexual politics and democratic (in)
stability 380
Alessia Dona
31 Diverse sexual orientations and gender identities in conflict and
displacement 391
Zeynep Pinar Erdem, Onen David Ongwech, Philipp Schulz and Henri
Myrttinen
32 Redefining (in-)security in cybersecurity: an intersectional lens 404
Anwar Mhajne and Crystal Whetstone
33 Gender-based violence in WASH: a threat to global health security 417
Abraham Marshall Nunbogu and Susan J. Elliot
Index 430