Feminist security studies: a narrative approach
"The volume explicitly works toward an opening up of security studies that would allow for feminist (and other) narratives to be recognized and taken seriously as security narratives. To make this possible, it presents a feminist reading of security studies that aims to invigorate the debate and radicalize critical security studies. Since feminism is a political project, and security studies are, at their base, about particular visions of the political and their attendant institutions, this is …
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- Full title :Feminist security studies : a narrative approach / Annick T.R. Wibben.
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"The volume explicitly works toward an opening up of security studies that would allow for feminist (and other) narratives to be recognized and taken seriously as security narratives. To make this possible, it presents a feminist reading of security studies that aims to invigorate the debate and radicalize critical security studies. Since feminism is a political project, and security studies are, at their base, about particular visions of the political and their attendant institutions, this is of necessity a political intervention. The book works through and beyond security studies to explore possible spaces where an opening of security, necessary to make way for feminist insights, can take place. While it develops and illustrates a feminist narrative approach to security, it is also intended as an intervention that challenges the politics of security and the meanings for security legitimized in existing practices"--Publisher description
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 153 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780203834886, 0203834887, 0415457270, 9780415457279
- oclc:ocn710362949
- LC Classification:JZ5588
- Dewey Decimal:355/.03300082
Table of Contents
1. Feminist interventions : the politics of identity -- 2. Challenging meanings -- 3. Toward a narrative approach -- 4. Security as narrative -- 5. Feminist security narratives -- 6. The future of feminist security studies.
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