This handbook provides a comprehensive look at the study of gender and security in global politics.

The volume is based on the core argument that gender is conceptually necessary to thinking about central questions of security; analytically important for thinking about cause and effect in security; and politically important for considering possibilities of making the world better in the future. Contributions to the volume look at various aspects of studying gender and security through diverse lenses that engage diverse feminisms, with diverse policy concerns, and working with diverse theoretical contributions from scholars of security more broadly. It is grouped into four thematic sections:

• Gendered approaches to security (including theoretical, conceptual, and methodological approaches);
• Gendered insecurities in global politics (including the ways insecurity in global politics is distributed and read on the basis of gender);
• Gendered practices of security (including how policy practice and theory work together, or do not);
• Gendered security institutions (across a wide variety of spaces and places in global politics).

This handbook will be of great interest to students of gender studies, security studies and IR in general.

Caron E. Gentry is a Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. She has published multiple books and journals articles, including, most recently, Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores (2015, with Laura Sjoberg) and Offering Hospitality: Questioning Christian Approaches to War (2013).

Laura J. Shepherd is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is also a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security in London, UK. She is author/editor of many books, including, most recently, Gender, UN Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space (2017).

Laura Sjoberg is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, USA. She is author or editor of many books, including, most recently, Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores (2015, with Caron E. Gentry), Women as Wartime Rapists (2016), and Interpretive Quantification (2017, with J. Samuel Barkin).

Introduction, Editors

1. Violence against Women/Violence in the World: Toward a Feminist Conceptualization of Global Violence, Jacqui True and Maria Tanyag

2. Gender, Structural Violence and Peace, Ronni Alexander

3. Gender, Race and the Insecurity of 'Security', Maryam Khalid

4. Feminist Narrative Approaches to Security, Annick T.R. Wibben and Akanksha Mehta

5. Gender, Feminism and War Theorizing, Laura Sjoberg

6. Men, Masculinity and Global Insecurity, Paul Higate

7. Gendered and Sexualized Figurations of Security, Cynthia Weber and Darcy Leigh

8. Do Queer Visions Trouble Human Security?, Michael J. Bosia

9. Feminist Violence and the In/Securing of Women and Feminism, Anne Sisson Runyan and Marysia Zalewski

10. Exploring Gendered Security Dynamics through Fieldwork and Ethnography, Megan Daigle

11. Gender and War, Julia Welland

12. Gender and Terrorism, Caron E. Gentry

13. Gender and Everyday Violence, Alexandria J. Innes and Brent J. Steele

14. Gendered Militarism, Maya Eichler

15. The Gendered Political Economy of Insecurity, V. Spike Peterson

16. Gender and Genocide: Two Case Studies, Choman Hardi

17. Migration and Gendered Insecurities in Global Politics, Meghana Nayak

18. Gender, Violence and Technology, Cristina Masters

19. Wartime Sexual Violence, Paul Kirby

20. The Role of Gender in Mobilizing and Countering Fundamentalist Violent Extremist Organizations, Keith Proctor and Dyan Mazurana

21. Embodied In/security as Care Needs, Tiina Vaittinen

22. Gender, Agency and Violence, Elina Penttinen

23. Memory, Trauma and Gendered Insecurity, David Duriesmith

24. The Gendered Myth of Protection, Cecila Ase

25. Sex, Sexuality, Reproduction and International Security, Anna L. Weissman

26. Gender, Popular Culture and (In)security, Linda Ahall

27. Gender and the UN Women, Peace and Security Agenda, Nicole George, Katrina Lee-Koo, and Laura J. Shepherd

28. Peace Processes and Women's Inclusion, Kara Ellerby

29. Gender and Peacekeeping, Sabrina Karim

30. Gender and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Laura McLeod

31. Gender and Security Sector Reform, Megan Bastick

32. Gender in International Security Organizations, Natalie Florea Hudson and Laura Huber

33. Gender and State Militaries, Melissa T. Brown

34. Gender in Paramilitary Organizations, Sandra McEvoy