Resources

Welcome to the WIIS Resource Page! Here you will find a list of resources currated by the WIIS team about gender and international security. This list includes both academic and non-academic resources in order to bring a diverse perspective to this subject.

If you would like to submit a source, please email info@wiisglobal.org. We encourgae all sources on gender, international security, and WPS in both English, non-English, Western and non-Western.

Books and Papers

Gender 101

Crenshaw, K. (1995). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color in After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture, ed. Dan Danielsen and Karen Engle. New York: Routledge. pp. 332-354.
De Beauvoir, S. (1949). The Second Sex. Paris: Éditions Gallimard.
Evans, M., Hemmings, C., Henry, M., Johnstone, H., Madhok, S., Plomien, A., & Wearing, S. (2014). The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory. London: SAGE.
Gay, R. (2014) Bad Feminist. New York: Harper Perennial.
Harris-Perry, M.V. (2011). Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. New Haven: Yale University Press.
hooks, b. (2000). Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. 2nd Ed. Cambridge: South End Press.
Lorde, A. (1984). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. New York: Crossing Press.
Perkins-Gilman, C. (1915). Herland. New York: The Forerunner.

Gender and International Relations

Anonymous. (2000). A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City. Frankfurt: Eichborn AG.
Carver, T. (2014). Men and Masculinities in International Relations Research. Brown Journal of World Affairs, 21, 113-126.
Cockburn, Cynthia. (2004). The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace, in Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman (eds), Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Cockburn, C. (2010). Gender Relations as Causal in Militarization and War. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 12(2), 139-157.
Cohn, C. (1987) Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals. Signs, 12(4), 687-718.
de Volo, L. B., & Hall, L. K. (2015). “I Wish All the Ladies Were Holes in the Road”: The US Air Force Academy and the Gendered Continuum of Violence. Signs, 40(4), 865-889.
Duncanson, C., & Woodward, R. (2016). Regendering the military: Theorizing women’s military participation. Security Dialogue, 47(1), 3-21.
Enloe, C. (2014). Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Eriksson Baaz, M. and M. Stern. (2009). Why Do Soldiers Rape? Masculinity, Violence and Sexuality in the Armed Forces in the Congo (DRC). International Studies Quarterly, 53 (2), 495-518.
Ghodsee, K. (2018). Why Women Have Better Sex under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence. New York: Nation Books.
Hudson, V.M., Ballif-Spanvill, B., Caprioli, M., & Emmett, C.F. (2012). Sex & World Peace. Columbia Press: New York.
Kirby, P. (2013). Refusing To Be A Man?: Men’s Responsibility for War Rape and the Problem of Social Structures in Feminist and Gender Theory, Men and Masculinities, 16 (1), 93-114.
Nagel, J. (2014). Plus ça change: Reflections on a century of militarizing women’s sexuality. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 21(3), 294-298.
Patel, B. (2017). Depicting Female Suicide Bombers: Understanding the Radicalization Process. Champaign, IL: Common Ground Research Networks. (WIIS member)
Swaine, A. (2016). Enabling or Disabling Paternalism: (In)attention to Gender and Women’s Knowledge, Capacity and Authority in Humanitarian Contexts in Paternalism Beyond Borders, ed. Michael N. Barnett. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Young, I.M. (2003). ‘The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current Security State’, Signs: Journal of Women, Culture and Society, 29(2), 1-25.

Women, Peace and Security

Cohn, C. (Eds). (2013). Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures. Polity Press.
Davies, S.E. & True, J. (2019). Oxford Handbook on Women, Peace and Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gunda Werner Institut, Medica Mondiale, CARE, Deutscher Frauenrat, Owen, UN Women, Frauen Netzwerk Fur Frieden, Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, the Canaan Project, Deutscher Frauenring e.v. (7 March 2019) German government treading on dangerous ground in the UN Security Council: Planned new resolution threatens to weaken the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Berlin.
Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala. (2016) ‘The ‘war on terror’ and extremism: assessing the relevance of the Women, Peace and Security agenda,’ International Affairs, 92, 2, 275-291.
Olonisakin, F., Barnes, K., & Ikpe, E. (Eds). (2010). Women, Peace and Security: Translating Policy into Practice. Routledge.
Porter, E. (2007) Peacebuilding as a Process: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in Peacebuilding: women in international perspective. London: Routledge, 11-42.
True, J. (2016). ‘Explaining the global diffusion of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda,’ International Political Science Review, 37, 3, 307-323.

Policy Documents

Women, Peace and Security — UN

UNSCR 1325 (2000)
UNSCR 1820 (2008)
UNSCR 1888 (2009)
UNSCR 1889 (2009)
UNSCR 1960 (2010)
UNSCR 2106 (2013)
UNSCR 2122 (2013)
UNSCR 2242 (2015)
UNSCR 2467 (2019)

Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

Introduction to CEDAW
CEDAW (1979)
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 30 (2013)

National Action Plans

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Member States (National Action Plans).
The US National Action Plan. (2011)
The US National Action Plan. (2016)
USIP Women, Peace and Security and US Policy Report. (2018)

Other

International Gender Champions. (2018). IGC Annual Report.

Podcasts

Gender 101

BBC. Woman’s Hour.
Mack, M. How to Be a Girl.
Misandry with Marcia and Rae.
Plank, L. & Herzog, H. Divided States of Women.

Gender and International Relations

UN Gender Focus

Women, Peace and Security

Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. Seeking Peace.
War on the Rocks. Bombshell.

Newspaper Articles Enter

Gender and International Relations

Interview Her.
Sultan, M. (4 June 2019). I Met the Taliban. Women Were the First to Speak. New York Times.

Women, Peace and Security

Borger, J. (25 Oct. 2018). Trump administration wants to remove ‘gender’ from UN human rights documents. London. The Guardian.
Borger, J. (22 April 2019). US threatens to veto UN resolution on rape as a weapon of war, officials say. London. The Guardian.
Courtois, L., De Wilde, R., Feely, G., & Walker, M. (13 Feb. 2019). The month in Women, Peace and Security: January 2019. Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Mhajne, A. (29 April 2019). Weak UN resolution exposes conflict between sexual violence survivors’ needs and political ideology. The Defense Post.

Films & Documentaries

Gender 101

Dore, M. (2014). She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry.
Newsom, J.L. (2011). Miss Representation.

Gender and International Relations

PBS. (2019). Women, War & Peace II.
Guggenheim, D. (2015). He Named Me Malala.

Databases

Gender and International Relations

International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN). What the Women Say Policy Briefs.
Wilson Center. Global Women’s Leadership Initiative.

Women, Peace and Security

Council on Foreign Relations. Women’s Roles in Peace Processes.
Council on Foreign Relations. Women’s Workplace Equality Index.
US Civil Society Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. Advancing Women, Peace and Security.
George Washington University: Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs. Women, Peace, Security, and Development Bibliography.
Georgetown Institute of Women, Peace and Security. WPS Index.

Social Media

Organization	Twitter	Instagram
Women in International Security Global	@wiis_global	@wiis_global
UN Women	@UN_Women	@unwomen
NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security	@ngowgwps	@ngowgwps
NGO Committee on the Status of Women	@NGO_CSW_NY	@ngo_csw_ny
New York Times Gender		@nytgender
Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security	@giwps	@georgetown_wps
Women for Women International	@WomenforWomen	@womenforwomen
London School of Economics Centre for Women, Peace and Security	@LSE_WPS
Women’s Action for New Directions	@WomensAction	@womensaction (Women’s Action for New Directions)
Women of Color Advancing Peace & Security	@wcapsnet	@wcapsnet
Women without Borders	@WwB_SAVE	@wwb_org
Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy	@feministfp	@feministforeignpolicy
Women in Foreign Policy	@WFP14	@womeninforeignpolicy
Human Rights Watch	@hrw	@humanrightswatch
Women Moving Millions	@WomMovMillions	@womenmovingmillions
International Women’s Media Foundation	@IWMF	@theiwmf
4Girls GLocal Leadership	@4GGL
Alliance for Peacebuilding	@AfPeacebuilding
American Red Cross	@RedCross	@americanredcross
Amnesty International	@amnestyusa	@amnestyusa
Asia Foundation	@Asia_Foundation	@theasiafoundation
U.S. Baha’i Office of Public Affairs	@USBahaiOPA
Equality Now	@equalitynow	@equalitynoworg
Fuller Project	@FullerProject
Futures Without Violence	@WithoutViolence
George Washington Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs	@ElliottGEIA
Inclusive Security	@InclusvSecurity
Institute for State Effectiveness	@effectivestates
International Center for Research on Women	@ICRW
International Civil Society Action Network	@whatthewomensay	@whatthewomensay
International Foundation for Electoral Systems	@IFES1987
International Republican Institute	@IRIglobal	@iriglobal
International Research and Exchanges Board	@IREXintl
Mina’s List	@MinasList
National Democratic Institute	@NDI	@ndidemocracy
Our Secure Future: Women Make the Difference	@OEForg
PAI	@pai_org	@pai_org
Peace X Peace	@PeaceXPeace
Promundo	@Promundo_US
Protect the People	@protectppl
Saferworld	@Saferworld
Strategy for Humanity	@Strat4Humanity
The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy	@TimepDC
United Nations Association of the United States of America	@UNAUSA	@una.usa
US National Committee of UN Women	@USNC_UNWomen	@usnc_unwomen
Vital Voices	@VitalVoices	@vitalvoices
WomanStats Project	@WomanStats	@womanstatsproject
Women Enabled International	@WomenEnabled	@womenenabled
Women for Afghan Women	@WAWHumanRights	@womenforafghanwomen
Women’s Refugee Commission	@wrcommission

Crenshaw, K. (1995). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color in After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture, ed. Dan Danielsen and Karen Engle. New York: Routledge. pp. 332-354.

De Beauvoir, S. (1949). The Second Sex. Paris: Éditions Gallimard.

Evans, M., Hemmings, C., Henry, M., Johnstone, H., Madhok, S., Plomien, A., & Wearing, S. (2014). The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory. London: SAGE.

Gay, R. (2014) Bad Feminist. New York: Harper Perennial.

Harris-Perry, M.V. (2011). Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. New Haven: Yale University Press.

hooks, b. (2000). Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. 2nd Ed. Cambridge: South End Press.

Lorde, A. (1984). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. New York: Crossing Press.

Perkins-Gilman, C. (1915). Herland. New York: The Forerunner.

Anonymous. (2000). A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City. Frankfurt: Eichborn AG.

Carver, T. (2014). Men and Masculinities in International Relations Research. Brown Journal of World Affairs, 21, 113-126.

Cockburn, Cynthia. (2004). The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace, in Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman (eds), Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones. Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Cockburn, C. (2010). Gender Relations as Causal in Militarization and War. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 12(2), 139-157.

Cohn, C. (1987) Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals. Signs, 12(4), 687-718.

de Volo, L. B., & Hall, L. K. (2015). “I Wish All the Ladies Were Holes in the Road”: The US Air Force Academy and the Gendered Continuum of Violence. Signs, 40(4), 865-889.

Duncanson, C., & Woodward, R. (2016). Regendering the military: Theorizing women’s military participation. Security Dialogue, 47(1), 3-21.

Enloe, C. (2014). Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Eriksson Baaz, M. and M. Stern. (2009). Why Do Soldiers Rape? Masculinity, Violence and Sexuality in the Armed Forces in the Congo (DRC). International Studies Quarterly, 53 (2), 495-518.

Ghodsee, K. (2018). Why Women Have Better Sex under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence. New York: Nation Books.

Hudson, V.M., Ballif-Spanvill, B., Caprioli, M., & Emmett, C.F. (2012). Sex & World Peace. Columbia Press: New York.

Kirby, P. (2013). Refusing To Be A Man?: Men’s Responsibility for War Rape and the Problem of Social Structures in Feminist and Gender Theory, Men and Masculinities, 16 (1), 93-114.

Nagel, J. (2014). Plus ça change: Reflections on a century of militarizing women’s sexuality. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 21(3), 294-298.

Patel, B. (2017). Depicting Female Suicide Bombers: Understanding the Radicalization Process. Champaign, IL: Common Ground Research Networks. (WIIS member)

Swaine, A. (2016). Enabling or Disabling Paternalism: (In)attention to Gender and Women’s Knowledge, Capacity and Authority in Humanitarian Contexts in Paternalism Beyond Borders, ed. Michael N. Barnett. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Young, I.M. (2003). ‘The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current Security State’, Signs: Journal of Women, Culture and Society, 29(2), 1-25.

Cohn, C. (Eds). (2013). Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures. Polity Press.

Davies, S.E. & True, J. (2019). Oxford Handbook on Women, Peace and Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala. (2016) ‘The ‘war on terror’ and extremism: assessing the relevance of the Women, Peace and Security agenda,’ International Affairs, 92, 2, 275-291.

Olonisakin, F., Barnes, K., & Ikpe, E. (Eds). (2010). Women, Peace and Security: Translating Policy into Practice. Routledge.

Porter, E. (2007) Peacebuilding as a Process: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in Peacebuilding: women in international perspective. London: Routledge, 11-42.

True, J. (2016). ‘Explaining the global diffusion of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda,’ International Political Science Review, 37, 3, 307-323.

UNSCR 1325 (2000)

UNSCR 1820 (2008)

UNSCR 1888 (2009)

UNSCR 1889 (2009)

UNSCR 1960 (2010)

UNSCR 2106 (2013)

UNSCR 2122 (2013)

UNSCR 2242 (2015)

UNSCR 2467 (2019)

Introduction to CEDAW

CEDAW (1979)

CEDAW General Recommendation No. 30 (2013)

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Member States (National Action Plans).

The US National Action Plan. (2011)

The US National Action Plan. (2016)

USIP Women, Peace and Security and US Policy Report. (2018)

International Gender Champions. (2018). IGC Annual Report.

Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. Seeking Peace.

War on the Rocks. Bombshell.

Sultan, M. (4 June 2019). I Met the Taliban. Women Were the First to Speak. New York Times.

Borger, J. (25 Oct. 2018). Trump administration wants to remove ‘gender’ from UN human rights documents. London. The Guardian.

Borger, J. (22 April 2019). US threatens to veto UN resolution on rape as a weapon of war, officials say. London. The Guardian.

Courtois, L., De Wilde, R., Feely, G., & Walker, M. (13 Feb. 2019). The month in Women, Peace and Security: January 2019. Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

Mhajne, A. (29 April 2019). Weak UN resolution exposes conflict between sexual violence survivors’ needs and political ideology. The Defense Post.

Dore, M. (2014). She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry.

Newsom, J.L. (2011). Miss Representation.

PBS. (2019). Women, War & Peace II.

Guggenheim, D. (2015). He Named Me Malala.

International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN). What the Women Say Policy Briefs.

Wilson Center. Global Women’s Leadership Initiative.

Council on Foreign Relations. Women’s Roles in Peace Processes.

Council on Foreign Relations. Women’s Workplace Equality Index.

US Civil Society Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. Advancing Women, Peace and Security.

George Washington University: Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs. Women, Peace, Security, and Development Bibliography.

Georgetown Institute of Women, Peace and Security. WPS Index.

UN Women

NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security

NGO Committee on the Status of Women

New York Times Gender

Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security

Women for Women International

London School of Economics Centre for Women, Peace and Security

Women’s Action for New Directions

Women of Color Advancing Peace & Security

Women without Borders

Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy

Women in Foreign Policy

Human Rights Watch

Women Moving Millions