Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Feminist International Relations: making sense ... / Marysia Zalewski -- Marysia Zalewski -- Ch. 2. Ontologies, epistemologies, methodologies / Lene Hansen -- Ch. 3. Sex or gender? Bodies in global politics and why gender matters / Laura J. Shepherd -- Ch. 4. Postcolonial theories and challenges to "first world-ism" / Anna M. Agathangelou and Heather M. Turcotte -- Ch. 5. Ethics / Kimberly Hutchings -- Ch. 6. Environmental politics and ecology / Emma A. Foster -- Ch. 7. Body politics : gender, sexuality and human rights / Jill Steans -- Ch. 8. Trafficking in human beings / Barbara Sullivan -- Ch. 9 War / Swati Parashar -- Ch. 10. Militarism / Cynthia Cockburn -- Ch. 11. Terrorism and political violence / Caron Gentry and Laura Sjoberg -- Ch. 12. The "war on terrorism" / Krista Hunt -- Ch. 13. Genocide and mass violence / Adam Jones -- Ch. 14. Sexual violence in war / Donna Pankhurst -- Ch. 15. International-global political economy / V. Spike Peterson -- Ch. 16. Production, employment and consumption / Juanita Elias and Lucy Ferguson -- Ch. 17. Land, water and food / Monika Barthwal-Datta and Soumita Basu -- Ch. 18. Development institutions and neoliberal globalisation / Penny Griffin -- Ch. 19. Mainstreaming gender in international institutions / Jacqui True -- Ch. 20. International criminal law / Rosemary Grey -- Ch. 21. Peacekeeping / Nadine Puechguirbal -- Ch. 22. Peacebuilding / Laura J. Shepherd -- Ch. 23. Migration / Jindy Pettman with Lucy Hall -- Ch. 24. Religion / Katherine E. Brown -- Ch. 25. Nationalism / Dibyesh Anand -- Ch. 26. Citizenship, nationality and gender / Denise M. Horn -- Ch. 27. Transnational activism / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Ch. 28. Art, aesthetics and emotionality / Emma Hutchison and Roland Bleiker -- Ch. 29. Popular culture and the politics of the visual / Christina Rowley -- Ch. 30. Sex, gender and cyberspace / M. I. Franklin -- Ch. 31 New social media and global resistance / Suzanne Levi-Sanchez and Sophie Toupin.

Introduces the wide variety of feminist and gender theory and explains the relevance to contemporary global politics. Explains the insights of feminist theory for a range of other disciplines including international relations, international political economy and security studies and addresses a large number of key contemporary issues such as human rights, trafficking, rape as a tool of war, peacekeeping and state-building, terrorism and environmental politics.