Introduction to Security Studies : Feminist Contributions

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Laura Sjoberg is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is author of Gender, Justice and the Wars in Iraq (New York: Lexington Books, 2006) and (with Caron Gentry) Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics (London: Zed Books, 2007). Her work has recently appeared in International Studies Quarterly, International Relations, Politics and Gender, and International Studies Review. The Special Issue as a whole has benefited from funding for this project provided by the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the International Studies Association, and the Department of Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Two anonymous reviewers were gracious enough to read the entire project (twice), and tireless work has been put in to this project by Susan Peterson, Michael Desch, and William Wohlforth at Security Studies. Others, including Christine Sylvester, Carol Cohn, Annick Wibben, Lene Hansen, and Jacqueline Berman, have read and commented on substantial parts of this work. Important insights about the structure and content of this introduction came from all of the contributors to the special issue, as well as Amy Eckert, Caron Gentry, Ilja Luciak, Janice Bially Mattern, Swati Parashar, Spike Peterson, and Ann Tickner. Any mistakes remain my own.