This is a book on the role of gender in international relations.

Tickner's stimulating challenge can be disputed, but it is too well considered and thoughtful to ignore. Gender in International Relations is likely to begin a productive debate involving international relations scholars, feminist thinkers, and others concerned about security in the most inclusive sense. -- Robert O. Keohane, Harvard University
Tickner's book provides ways to begin to frame discomfort with this narrowly gender-conceived and yet oddly self-satisfied field of [international relations]. It features the new and the bold and the uninvestigated. It provides alternative points of departure for theory and impresses us with the amount of work feminist scholars have already done to clear the brush. Of utmost value, it tells of the many ways the field...needs feminist thinking to get its knowledge and priorities straight. -- Christine Sylvester, American Political Science Review

J. Ann Tickner is professor of international relations at the University of Southern California.

Engendered insecurities; man, the state and war - gendered perspectives on national security; three models of man - gendered perspectives on global economy security; man over nature - gendered perspectives on ecological security; toward a nongendered perspective on global security.