Gender and international security : feminist perspectives / edited by Laura Sjoberg.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

1. Introduction / Laura Sjoberg -- Part 1: Gendered Lenses Envision Security -- 1. Theses on the Military, U.S. National Security, War, and Women / Judith Stiehm -- 2. War, Sense, and Security / Christine Sylvester -- 3. Gendering the State: Performativity and Protection in International Security / Jonathan Wadley -- Part 2: Gendered Security Theories 4. Gendering the {u2018}Cult of the Offensive,{u2019}/ Lauren Wilcox 5. Gendering Power Transition Theory / Laura Sjoberg -- 6. The Genders of Environmental Security / Nicole Detraz -- Part 3: Gendered Security Actors 8. Loyalist Women Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland: Beginning a Feminist Conversation about Conflict Resolution / Sandra McEvoy -- 8. Securitization and De-Securitization: Female Soldiers and the Reconstruction of Women in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone / Megan MacKenzie -- 9. Women, Militancy, and Security: The South Asia Conundrum / Swati Parashar -- Part 4: Gendered Security Problematiques -- 10. Feminist Theory and Arms Control / Susan Wright -- 11. Beyond Border Security: Feminist Approaches to Human Trafficking / Jennifer Lobasz 12. When Are States Hypermasculine? / Jennifer Maruska -- 13. Peace Building through a Gender Lens and the Challenges of Implementation in Rwanda and Cote d{u2019}Ivoire / Heidi Hudson.