J. Ann Tickner
J. Ann Tickner is ranked among the most influential scholars of international relations. As one of the founders of the field of feminist international relations, she is also among the most pioneering. In many ways her academic career has traced the development of the feminist subfield of IR, and
it is no overstatement to say that the field today would look much different without her groundbreaking contributions.
A Feminist Voyage through International Relations provides a compendium of Tickner's work as a feminist IR scholar, from the late 1980s through today. The book addresses
the issue of methodology in feminist IR and the continuing challenge from traditional IR scholars that feminists don't perform legitimate scientific research. Tickner introduces and contextualizes her previous writings with new essays that trace her intellectual development as a feminist scholar.
The chapters consider the introduction of women and gender into the conversation about IR, as well as feminist methodological interventions and conversations with the IR mainstream. The final section of the book includes some of Tickner's later writings on topics including race, imperialism, and
religion. She ends with thoughts on the present currents of feminist IR and its place within the wider discipline.
Given the way that her career has mirrored the evolution of the subfield, Tickner's book provides a methodological and epistemological story of feminist interventions in IR
and a thoughtful reflection on where the field is headed in the future.
Introduction
PART I: SEEING WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE DISCIPLINE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
1. Hans Morgenthau's Principles of Political Realism: A Feminist Reformulation, 1988
2. Gendering Security Studies and Peace Studies, 1994 and 2004
3. On the Fringes of the World
Economy: A Feminist Perspective, 1991
4. States and Markets: An Ecofeminist Perspective on International Political Economy, 1993
5. The Gendered Frontiers of Globalization, 2004
PART II: METHODOLOGICAL ENGAGEMENTS
6. You Just Don't Understand: Troubled Engagements Between
Feminists and IR Theorists, 1997
7. What Is Your Research Program? Some Feminist Answers to IR's Methodological Questions, 2005
8. Dealing with Difference: Problems and Possibilities for Dialogue in International Relations, 2011
PART III: EXPLORING SOME CONTEMPORARY THEMES AND NEW
DIRECTIONS
9. Feminist Perspectives on 9/11, 2002
10. On Taking Religious Worldviews Seriously, 2009
11. Retelling IR's Foundational Stories: Some Feminist and Postcolonialist Perspectives, 2011
PART IV: CONCLUSIONS
12. You May Never Understand: Prospects for Feminist
Futures in International Relations, June 2010
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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J. Ann Tickner is Professor Emerita in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, Distinguished Scholar in Residence at American University, and past President of the International Studies Association.
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