Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Looking backwards and forwards at International Relations around feminism -- Enter feminism -- Feminist journeying -- 2 Introducing Elshtain, Enloe, and Tickner: looking at key feminist efforts before journeying on -- Women and War -- Not a soldier -- To war fields -- Bananas, Beaches, and Bases -- Nationalism, ethnicity, and the military - and then women -- Happy hunting -- Gender in International Relations -- Gender, women, and feminism -- Becoming economically secure -- Echoes in the chambers -- Part II Sightings -- 3 Handmaids' tales of Washington power: the abject and the real Kennedy White House -- Feminists consider bodies, sex, gender, power -- Who is minding the corpo-real White House? -- Minders who are not handmaids -- Sighting the handmaids -- Kennedy's difficult decisions -- Rational decision making -- Organizational decision making -- Bureaucratic politics -- Figures seeping -- 4 Reginas in international relations: occlusions, cooperations, and Zimbabwean cooperatives -- Reginas and regimes: sites of occlusion -- Neo-realist minimalists -- Less minimalist, neoliberal institutionalism -- Less minimalist multilateralism -- Gendered cooperations? -- Cooperations in Zimbabwe? -- Local meanings of cooperation -- The outside and inside meet -- And so? -- 5 The White Paper trailing -- Security among friends? Confession I -- (Post)colonial dilemmas: Confessions II -- Insecuring defense -- 6 Picturing the Cold War: an eye graft/art graft -- Art and politics: the avant-garde -- The avant-garde goes "primitive" -- The avant-garde Cold War -- Unblinding -- 7 Four international Dianas: Andy's tribute -- I. Beautiful pink Diana -- II. Silver Diana -- III. Red Di -- IV. The Diana negative -- Part III Sitings.

8 The emperors' theories and transformations: looking at the field through feminist lenses -- Mainstream international relations and political economy -- Neorealism and its precursors -- World-systems -- Missing -- Feminist theorizing -- Feminist empiricism -- Rationality as bias -- The single-society bias -- The functional bias -- The bias of impersonal actors and processes -- The feminist empiricist contribution -- Feminist standpoint -- Constructing woman-culture -- Reconstructing gender-structuring processes -- The feminist standpoint contribution -- Feminist postmodernism -- Smashing the stereotypes -- The feminist postmodernist contribution -- Transformations? -- 9 Feminists and realists view autonomy and obligation in international relations -- Feminist issues of autonomy and obligation -- Autonomy and obligation in international relations theory -- Women in the interstices of realist autonomy and obligation -- Another recasting -- A chorus of concluding objections -- 10 Some dangers in merging feminist and peace projects -- A case for merging feminist and peace projects -- Another way to look at the merger -- Feminist standpoint perspectives -- A plethora of standpoints -- Considering women warrior standpoints -- Women warrior contingencies of personal biography -- Women warriors and national contingencies -- Concludings -- 11 Gendered development imaginaries: shall we dance, Pygmalion? -- Imagining development help -- Help -- Silveira House helps -- Siting more women in help -- Partnership for Productivity: Pygmalionesque gender help -- Imagining Development: the Zimbabwe Women's Bureau -- Literature implicating development and gender -- 12 Empathetic cooperation: a feminist method for IR -- Unempathetic denials of women in IR -- Empathetic cooperation and feminism -- Hands-on empathetic cooperation in IR -- Good mothers and good soldiers.

Walking "home" -- Good families get international funding? -- Getting going -- Part IV Citings -- 13 Feminist arts of International Relations -- The avant-garde and progress -- Feminists prime canvases -- Feminist outlinings -- Getting into the landscapes -- Feminist inlining -- Blurring the lines -- In(out)lining -- Traveling to feminist arts -- Representations -- Outlining the power -- A mermaidenly moment -- 14 Internations of feminism and International Relations -- "Nations" of feminism and International Relations -- Boundaries and "nations" -- "Nations" of IR and feminism struggle to be -- IR exceeded -- Feminism exceeded -- World-traveling the universals -- World-traveling to internations through fiction -- Hallucinating Foucault -- Behind the scenes at the museum -- The Information -- What does it mean? -- References -- Index.