Teaching Feminist International Politics
This collection explores articles that colleagues have recommended as useful in their teaching. Because teaching and learning is central to feminist scholarship and politics, deciding to put together this collection, assembling a team of devoted editors, and soliciting nominations (during our 20th anniversary year) was easy. We solicited nominations that had been classroom-tested, teacher-endorsed, and student-engaged. From the nominations received, the editors curated thirteen articles based on their individual merit and their collective ability to provide an anchor to and/or to provide feminist content to an introduction to global politics or international relations course. Selecting the content for just one issue was hard. No two classrooms are the same from year to year, across courses with their own unique objectives, parameters and aspirations, across universities around the world with different locus of enunciation for why higher education matters. No two teachers use an article in the same way. And no two students draw the same insights from a reading. Yet, year after year we each return to certain articles to teach again and again because of the joys of the clarity an author has provided, the insights the article enables, or the disruptions and decentering it provokes. We read these articles for their contributions, arguments for further development, new directions for research, and possibilities for comparison. This collection offers what a feminist engagement with the main themes and discussions in International Politics in the academy could look like. In making this collection of selected reader-recommended articles, we cannot hope to reflect the full diversity of feminist scholarship in content, methods, regions, or styles of argumentation and writing. We can hope that each travels to all sorts of classrooms and teaching moments; and that each invites you to further explore the journal’s resources for your feminist classrooms.
Edited by
Brooke Ackerly(Vanderbilt University, US)
Shine Choi(Massey, University, New Zealand)
Marianne Marchand(Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico)
Krishna Menon(Ambedkar University, India)
Amy Niang(University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Connie Tabbush(UNWomen and Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Olivia Rutazibwa(University of Portsmouth, UK)
Li Yingtao(李英桃 , Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)