Feminist Security StudiesPapers

Sjoberg surveys how feminism reshapes security studies by shifting attention from states and war alone to bodies, everyday violence, gender order, wartime sexual violence, and global power.

Cockburn places domestic, street, nationalist, military, and postwar gendered violence on a single continuum, challenging the false separation of war/peace and public/private harm.

Tickner rereads Morgenthau's six principles of political realism through feminist international relations theory, challenging masculinized assumptions about power, interest, rationality, and security.

Cohn's participant-observation study shows how apparently neutral technical language turns nuclear destruction into a masculinized, abstract, and emotionally insulated form of rational practice.