Author Description

This Book Offers A Contemporary Intervention In The Field Of Feminism/international Relations. Partly Inspired By Surrealism, The Book Is Written In A Series Of Vignettes And Draws On A Variety Of Approaches Inviting Readers In To Inhabit The Text. It Is A Politically Engaged Book, Though One Which Does Not Direct Readers In Conventional Ways, Visiting Global Politics, The Classroom, Poetry, Institutional Violence, Cartoons, Feminist Violence, Films, Violent White Men, Angry Black Women, Blood And 'english' Puddings. Working Imaginatively With Epistemology And Methodology, And Embedding Theory Throughout The Text, The Book Can Be Considered Part Of The Current Genre Of Scholarship Which Attends To Complexity, Uncertainty, Disruption, Affect And The Creative Possibilities Of Randomness. Feminist International Relations: Exquisite Corpse Will Be Of Interest To Students And Scholars Of International Politics, Gender And Feminist Studies, International Studies, Political Theory, Globalization Studies And Further Afield.--publisher's Website. Prelude -- Exquisite Corpse -- An Ordinary Man -- Betraying Boundaries -- Stepping Through The Dark -- Taking A Detour -- The Measure Of Violence -- Avaricious Institutions -- How The Answers Got Their Questions -- The Trail Of Blood -- Answers And Questions (why Does Freud Giggle When The Women Leave The Room?) -- The Feminist Body Arrives -- Intimate Permissions -- And Feminism Is... -- And Feminism Is... -- And Feminism Is... -- Making Feminism Palatable -- Theory -- Crossing Disciplines -- Transformation -- The Morning After -- Feminism's Time -- Do You Like Women? -- Sick And Mad -- The Dead Body -- I Am -- Knowing Gender -- Looking Awry -- What Would Valerie Solanos Think? -- Violence -- Going Through The Day -- Securing Men -- Ir Without Men -- Rape -- The Code -- Where Is Rape? -- Why Can't A Woman Be More Like A Man? -- An Ordinary Man -- Woman's Place -- When Foreign Policy Makers And Feminist Academics Meet -- Two Women -- The Hours -- Acceptably Black -- Invisible Whiteness -- White -- Taking Time To Care -- Exquisite Corpse. Marysia Zalewski. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [151]-161) And Index.