Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender: (Handbooks of Research on International Political Economy series)

This comprehensive Handbook’ showcases the burgeoning and cutting edge research that has come to constitute the study of gender and International Political Economy (IPE). It surveys the diversity of contemporary feminist IPE research, exploring a range of different theoretical and methodological traditions and reviewing the broad empirical scope of this research. The Handbook also critically interrogates the intersections and points of tension between the different disciplines that have inspired contemporary approaches.Expert contributors offer insights into how to the categories of ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ have been established and maintained globally, while also documenting and challenging the privileging of the former over the latter in different sites and spaces. They further show how gender power relations are shaped by race, nationality, sexuality, class, and more. The Handbook explores and demonstrates how gender operates as a relation of social power in the global political economy. The Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender’ will appeal to undergraduate and post-graduate students of politics and international relations, security studies, development studies, economics, and gender and queer studies, as well as policymakers and practitioners interested in issues of global (in)equality and development.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction: Situating Gender Scholarship in IPE Juanita Elias and Adrienne Roberts Part I Theories and Approaches 1. Problematic Premises: Positivism, Modernism and Masculinism in IPE V. Spike Peterson 2. The Production of Life Itself: Gender, Social Reproduction and IPE Meg Luxton 3. Postcolonial Feminism Sheila Nair 4. Liberalism, Feminism and the Global Political Economy of Liberal Feminism Jane S. Jaquette 5. Constructivist thought in Feminist IPE: Tracking Gender Norms Gülay Çaglar 6. Gender, IPE and Poststructuralism: Problematizing the Material/Discursive Divide Penny Griffin 7. Queer theory and feminist political economy Nicola Smith 8. A Feminist Institutionalist Approach to IPE and Gender Georgina Waylen Part II Engagements and Perspectives 9. Close(d) Encounters: Feminist Security Studies Engages Feminist (International) Political Economy and the Return to Basics Heidi Hudson 10. Gender and Development Shirin M. Rai 11. Feminist Engagements with ‘Everyday Life’ Stephanie M. Redden 12. Multiple Dimensions of Gender Inequality: Engaging ‘the State’ in IPE Stefanie Wöhl 13. The Political Economy of Post-Conflict Violence against Women Jacqui True 14. Perspectives on Private Security: The Myth, the Men and the Markets Amanda Chisholm 15. Feminist Perspectives on the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles Catia Gregoratti 16. Social reproduction: From welfare to the global prison? Victoria Pereyra Iraola Part III Governing Markets and Economies 17. Financialization, unconventional monetary policy and gender inequality Brigitte Young 18. Microfinance: Empowering Women and/or Depoliticizing Poverty? Kenji Wada 19. Remittances in the Global Political Economy Rahel Kunz 20. Financial Crises in Historical Perspective Adrienne Roberts and Juanita Elias 21. Feminist Political Economy Perspectives on Gender Expertise Lucy Ferguson 22. The World Bank and the Challenge of ‘the Business Case’ for Feminist IPE Sydney Calkin 23. Gender Mainstreaming at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Sara Wallin 24. The Diverse Economy: Feminism, Capitalocentrism and Postcapitalist Futures Katharine McKinnon, Kelly Dombroski and Oona Morrow Part IV The Political Economy of People and Things 25. Women and Unfree Labour in the Global Political Economy Genevieve LeBaron 26. Transnational Care Work and the ‘Care Crisis’ Hironori Onuki 27. Marketization, Commodification and Privatization of Care Services Tiina Vaittinen, Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania and Olli Karsio 28. Sex Work Sara Kallock 29. Migrant and Domestic and Care Workers: Unfree Labour, Crises of Social Reproduction, and the Unsustainability of Life under ‘Vagabond Capitalism’ Sedef Arat-Koç 30. Gender, Migration and Social Reproduction Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram 31. Industrialization, Feminization and Mobilities Samanthi J. Gunawardana 32. The Gender Dynamics of Trade Zoe Pflaeger Young 33. Critical Perspectives on Gender, Food and Political Economy Merisa S. Thompson 34. The Global Political Economy of Beauty Angela B. V. McCracken Index

About the Author :
Edited by Juanita Elias, Reader in International Political Economy, University of Warwick and Adrienne Roberts, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, The University of Manchester, UK

Review :
’In their Handbook of the International Political Economy of Gender, Juanita Elias and Adrienne Roberts offer a collection that not only provides an overview of the "state of the art" in ongoing IPE gender studies debates, but also highlights avenues for theoretical advance and future research. In addition to offering incisive critiques of conventional IPE approaches, this collection highlights the diversity of Feminist IPE perspectives themselves, across disciplinary, theoretical and subfield divides - and so stands to advance gendered IPE analyses specifically, and IPE debates more generally across, our entire field.’ 'Elias and Roberts have pulled off quite a feat: they have made a Handbook exciting. This collection is packed with up-to-the-minute feminist international political economy findings. Each contributor knows the current debates and why every one of these (often fierce) debates matters.' 'An indispensable reference for understanding the breadth, depth, sophistication, and political robustness of feminist international political economy today by leading scholars in the field. From the political economies of migration, sex and domestic work, industrial labor, incarceration, and privatized security to global governance, globalization, and development and their effects on social reproduction and everyday life, this compendium shows how critical feminist perspectives are to resisting the violences of the contemporary international political economy.' 'This rich collection provides ample evidence that the interdisciplinary field of feminist International Political Economy has come into its own. It showcases the diversity of theoretical influences, methods of analysis, political engagements, and topic areas that make up the field. It also highlights the strength of the feminist revision of IPE for challenging contemporary issues and inequities. Building on the most recent feminist research, this engaging and thought-provoking Handbook is of great value to scholars, students and practitioners alike.'