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Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1996), 272 pp., $24.95 (pbk), ISBN 1 864 48057 2.
Jan Jindy Pettman has written an ideal primer for international relations scholars keen to acquaint themselves with gender as a category of analysis, in a discipline notoriously resistant to particularisation of any sort. Renowned for its ability to theoretically confine the international to a discrete, timeless, gender-neutral realm, the discipline is simultaneously being prised open by critical theorists, postmodernists and feminists. However, this revisioning is not going uncontested by the stalwarts of neorealism and neoliberalism which makes for lively debate. Pettman's gendered rewriting of international relations depends on the pivotal axis of citizenship or political identity, which she argues is central to dissolving the boundary between...