The Face of the Nation: Gendered Institutions in International Affairs
Author : Elise Stephenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780197632727
Call Number : 327.2082 STE
Summary:
Foreign services globally are undergoing fundamental and rapid gendered change, spurred on by shifting social and governance norms and even the adoption of an explicit feminist foreign policy in some stages. For some, this has resulted in women's rapidly increasing representation at the frontlines of global governance. Yet, compounded by COVID-19, a rise in right-wing misogyny and extremism, and sometimes archaically slow-moving institutions, progress is marred by women’s continued, entrenched under-representation in leadership. Drawing on data from over 30 years and interviews with nearly 80 leaders, including Julia Gillard and Julie Bishop, this book applies an Intersectional Feminist Institutionalist approach to interrogate why gender inequities persist in diplomacy, defence, policing, and intelligence—especially through the Australian lens.