Gender and Sovereignty Feminism, the State and International Relations [Hardcover]

Gender and Sovereignty seeks to reconstruct the notion of sovereignty in post-patriarchal society. Sovereignty is linked to emancipation, and an attempt is made to free both concepts from the static characteristics which derive from the Enlightenment and an uncritical view of the state. To reconstruct sovereignty, we must look beyond the state. Sovereignty, analysed in relational terms, becomes aligned with autonomy and self-determination in a world in which men and women can only be sovereign when they empower one another.Acknowledgements Introduction Sovereignty and the Problem of Reconstruction What is Feminism? Gender and Emancipation Defining the State Sovereignty, Patriarchy and the Problem of Origins Gender, Realism and International Relations Patriarchy and Anti-Statist Theory Power and Authority Coercion and Government A Relational View of Sovereignty Conclusion Bibliography IndexJOHN HOFFMAN is Professor of Political Theory, Department of Politics at the University of Leicester. His research interests include the state, sovereignty, feminism and Marxism. He is the author of Beyond the State (1995) and Sovereignty (1998).