Gender, Race, and Power

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Kaufman and Williams offer a much-needed and accessible examination of International Relations, explaining 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 IR 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 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 With Gender, Race, and Power,Kaufman and Williams take a delightful step in the direction of a genuinely plural IR. This is a book built from real curiosity, heterodoxy, and collaboration. It positively brims with important and timely discussion, on such diverse topics as war, peace, intervention, economy, and environment. Kaufman and Williams are not trying to undo IR, but to show how intersectional analysis, developed out of feminist and postcolonial research, answers questions in and of world politics in empirically and intellectually impactful ways. Gender, Race, and Power is a wonderful contribution, a must-read for anyone interested in expanding their international relations horizons. -- Penny Griffin, University of New South Wales, Australia