Gender and Sovereignty : Feminism, the State and International Relations

Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. While I was writing this book, I became ill with stress, and had six weeks off work. I am very grateful to the Department of Politics at the University of Leicester for their support and sympathy to me during that period. In particular, I would like to thank John Young, Bob Borthwick, Karen Henderson, Rob Garner, Phil Lynch, Laura Brace and James Hamill who either rescheduled, cancelled or took over classes for me. Renie Lewis was always sympathetic, and Julia O'Connell Davidson and Derek Layder were also very kind to me while I was `down'. I have received invaluable feedback on drafts of this book from Julia O'Connell Davidson, Laura Brace and Keith Faulks, and Gillian Youngs took time out from her busy schedule to comment on my chapter on `realism'. I have also benefited greatly from discussions with the Pateman Study Group where I have argued long and hard with Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Sovereignty and the Problem of Reconstruction....Pages 19-29 What Is Feminism?....Pages 31-50 Gender and Emancipation....Pages 51-70 Front Matter....Pages 71-71 Defining the State....Pages 73-90 Sovereignty, Patriarchy and the Problem of Origins....Pages 91-109 Gender, Realism and International Relations....Pages 111-128 Patriarchy and Anti-Statist Theory....Pages 129-144 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 Power and Authority....Pages 147-164 Coercion and Government....Pages 165-183 A Relational View of Sovereignty....Pages 185-208 Conclusion....Pages 209-213 Back Matter....Pages 215-228 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.