Gender and Sovereignty: Feminism, the State and International Relations

Hoffman, J.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-02-16

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333751404

DOI: 10.1057/9780230288188

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 228