Gender and private security in global politics /

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Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Description:	xvi, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford studies in gender and international relations Oxford studies in gender and international relations.
Subject:	Private security services. Women soldiers. Military policy -- Moral and ethical aspects. International relations. International relations. Military policy -- Moral and ethical aspects. Private security services. Women soldiers.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10142074

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Other authors / contributors:	Eichler, Maya, 1974- editor.
ISBN:	9780199364374 0199364370 9780199364381 0199364389
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"For two hundred years the provision of military security has been a central and defining function of the modern nation-state. The increasing reliance on private military and security companies in contemporary conflict marks a fundamental transformation in the organization of military violence, and it raises issues of accountability and ethics that are of particular concern to feminists. This privatization of force not only enables states to circumvent citizens' democratic control over questions of war and peace, but also undermines women's and minority groups' claims for greater inclusion in the military sphere. Gender and Private Security in Global Politics brings together key scholars from the fields of international relations, security studies, and gender studies to argue that privatization of military security is a deeply gendered process. The chapters employ a variety of feminist perspectives, including critical, postcolonial, poststructuralist, and queer feminist perspectives, as well as a wide range of methodological approaches including ethnography, participant-observation, genealogy, and discourse analysis. This is the first book to develop an extended feminist analysis of private militaries and to draw on feminist concerns regarding power, justice and equality to consider how to reform and regulate private forces"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Acronyms
Gender and the Privatization of Military Security: An Introduction
Part I. Beyond the Public/Private Divide: Feminist Analyses of Military Privatization and the Gendered State
1. Military Privatization as a Gendered Process: A Case for Integrating Feminist International Relations and Feminist State Theories
2. Military Privatization and the Gendered Politics of Sacrifice
3. Gender, PMSCs, and the Global Rescaling of Protection: Implications for Feminist Security Studies
Part II. Rethinking the Private Military Contractor I: Third-Country Nationals and the Making of Empire
4. (Re)Producing American Soldiers in an Age of Empire
5. From Warriors of Empire to Martial Contractors: Reimagining Gurkhas in Private Security
6. The License to Exploit: PMSCs, Masculinities, and Third-Country Nationals
Part III. Rethinking the Private Military Contractor II: Masculinities and Violence
7. Aversions to Masculine Excess in the Private Military and Security Company and Their Effects: Don't Be a "Billy Big Bollocks" and Beware the "Ninja!"
8. Heteronormative and Penile Frustrations: The Uneasy Discourse of the ArmorGroup Hazing Scandal
Part IV. Private In/Security: Gendered Problems of Accountability, Regulation, and Ethics
9. Engendering Accountability in Private Security and Public Peacekeeping
10. Women, PMSCs, and International Law
11. Empathy, Responsibility, and the Morality of Mercenaries: A Feminist Ethical Appraisal of PMSCs
Conclusion
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

Gender and private security in global politics /

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