Revisiting Gendered States: Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations

Swati Parashar is Associate Professor in Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi in 2016. Her research engages with the intersections between feminism, security and postcolonialism, focused on conflict and development issues in South Asia. She is the author of Women and Militant Wars: The Politics ofInjury (Routledge: London, 2014) and of several books chapters and articles in journals such as Postcolonial Studies, Security Dialogue, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, International Studies Review and International Studies Perspective.J. Ann Tickner is Professor Emerita in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, and Distinguished Scholar in Residence in the School of International Service at American University. She is also Professor of Politics and International Relations at Monash University. Her principle areas of research include international theory, peace and security, and feminist approaches to international relations. Her publications include GenderingWorld Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War World and A Feminist Voyage Through International Relations.Jacqui True is Professor of Politics & International Relations, and Director of Monash University's Centre for Gender, Peace and Security. She is also an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. Her current research is focused on understanding the political economy of post-conflict violence against women and the patterns of systemic sexual and gender-based violence in Asia Pacific conflict-affected countries. Herrecent publications include The Political Economy of Violence Against Women and edited with Aida Hozic, Scandalous Economics: The Politics of Gender and Financial Crises.