Marysia Zalewski
Biographic Data
| ID | 110731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marysia Zalewski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marysia |
| FAMILY NAME | Zalewski |
| SIGNATURE | ZALEWSKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5594-5296 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 93 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 322 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 90 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Journal bending”: Outgoing editors’ reflections on practicing feminist publishing
Violences of capitalism/political economies of war
The triumph of anti-genderism
The costs of (not) building alternative visions of the world(s)
Maternal depression, parenting, and child psychological outcomes in the context of maternal pain
Parental chronic pain is associated with adverse outcomes in children, but the mechanisms of transmission are largely untested. Mothers with chronic pain (N = 400, Mage = 40.3 years, 90.5% White) and their children (Mage = 10.33 years, 83.3% White, 50.2% female) were recruited in 2016–2018 to test longitudinal pathways of risk transmission from maternal chronic pain to children's psychological symptoms, examining roles of parenting, maternal depr…
The damages done by the “anti-gender movement”
Queer, feminist, de/postcolonial, science
Perhaps living as we are in a breathtakingly violent and violently fast-paced world, it might be helpful to think through efforts to know and comprehend this world from a queer, feminist, de/postcolonial perspective.These are projects that inspire us to take a pause to look up and around and ask: did I remember to breathe today?Did I somehow manage to live as a free subject today, and did this intersect with others being able to also breathe and …
The messiness of the global “political” and the “personal”
Feminist resistance as a bulwark for democracy
The important work of theorizing the everyday, the small
Dying for life: Reproductive governance redux … redux … redux
What do we need feminist solidarity for
On violence: Why feminist reflections and critique continue to matter
A global feminist public sphere
A global feminist public sphere?Becoming more inclusive, appreciating and negotiating difference, and counteracting the coloniality of knowledgethese goals have been central for IFJP editors from the inception of the journal at the turn of the millennium.Twenty-three years on, the list of the top ten countries from which our submissions originate now includes China, India, Brazil, and Turkey; however, IFJP remains an Anglophone journal whose auth…
Maternal mental health mediates the effects of pandemic‐related stressors on adolescent psychopathology during Covid‐19
BACKGROUND: This study examined whether COVID-19-related maternal mental health changes contributed to changes in adolescent psychopathology. METHODS: A community sample of 226 adolescents (12 years old before COVID-19) and their mothers were asked to complete COVID-19 surveys early in the pandemic (April-May 2020, adolescents 14 years) and approximately 6 months later (November 2020-January 2021). Surveys assessed pandemic-related stressors (hea…
Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Among At-Risk Preschoolers: The Mediating Role of Maternal Invalidation
No end to violence? Conflicts, emergencies, resistances
Rethinking masculinities, militarization, and unequal development
Woman, Life, Freedom”
Questioning war
Nurturing a robust dialogic and collaborative space of accountability and transformation
Material hardship level and unpredictability in relation to U.S. households’ family interactions and emotional well-being: Insights from the Covid-19 pandemic
Theorising sexual violence in global politics: Improvising with feminist theory
A key curiosity animating this article concerns how sexual violence is theorised. The work of feminist scholars has been crucial in unearthing ways in which women's traditionally demeaned bodies regularly materialised as ‘easy targets’ for such violence. The gift of the concept of gender has played a significant role in facilitating the production of this corpus of knowledge. Less noticed in the literature, in policy and legislation has been sexu…
The Building Regulation in Dual-Generations Program (BRIDGE): A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Pilot of a Parenting Program for Depressed Mothers of Preschoolers, Matched with Dialectical Behavior Therapy …
Concurrent and prospective effects of income, adversity, and parenting behaviors on middle‐childhood effortful control and adjustment
This study examined whether effortful control (executive control [EC], delay ability [DA]) accounted for the effects of early‐childhood contextual factors (income, cumulative risk, parenting) on middle‐childhood adjustment (social competence, internalizing and externalizing problems), or whether contextual factors account for observed associations between effortful control and adjustment. A sample of children and parents ( N = 306) were assessed …
The “Man” Question in International Relations
What's the problem with the concept of military masculinities
This think piece queries the value of the concept of military masculinities. This overly familiar and comfortable concept is perhaps falling short of its intended ambitions. Masculinized and militarized violence is rampant and no amount of 'adding women' (or other 'others') seems to make a difference. This begs the question of how much work we imagine concepts can do, as well as how much control we think we have over them
Towards global relational theorizing: A dialogue between Sinophone and Anglophone scholarship on relationalism
What is ‘relational theorizing’ in International Relations and what can it offer? This article introduces a thematic section that responds to these questions by showing two things. First, relational theorizing is not a doctrine or a method, but a set of analyses that begin with relations rather than the putative essences of constitutively autonomous actors. Second, relational theorizing has emerged from different geo-linguistic traditions, and a …
Feminist fatigue(s): Reflections on feminism and familiar fables of militarisation
In this article we critically consider the idea that feminism has performatively failed within the discipline of International Relations. One aspect of this failure relates to the production of sexgender through feminism which we suggest is partly responsible for a weariness inflecting feminist scholarship, in particular as a critical theoretical resource. We reflect on this weariness in the context of the study and practice of international poli…
Do We Understand Each Other Yet? Troubling Feminist Encounters with(in) International Relations
This article suggests that although a distinction between ‘International Relations’ and ‘Gender and International Relations’ may be untenable, there is a continued need for feminist analysis of international politics. Yet to imagine gendered scholarship on international politics as more than IR's ‘other’ remains a challenge—though resisted as the articles in this issue demonstrate. This resistance is reassuring, especially given that ambitions to…
I don't even know what gender is’: A discussion of the connections between gender, gender mainstreaming and feminist theory
In this article I discuss some of the connections between gender, gender mainstreaming and feminist theory. As a global initiative, gender mainstreaming is now well established; but the role of feminism and feminists in achieving this success is questionable. Some, including Harvard Law Professor Janet Halley claim that feminists, particularly in the realm of governance feminism, have been extremely successful. Yet despite this success Halley inv…
Well, what is the feminist perspective on Bosnia
Journal Article ‘Well, what is the feminist perspective on Bosnia?’ Get access Marysia Zalewski Marysia Zalewski Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 2, April 1995, Pages 339–356, https://doi.org/10.2307/2623438 Published: 01 April 1995
Taking Feminist Violence Seriously in Feminist International Relations
In this article we explore questions about feminism and violence to constructively complicate understandings about this relationship. Feminism is conventionally positioned as oppositional to direct and structural violences, importantly so, as this has been seen key to feminism's viability as a constructive knowledge project. Yet there are increasingly persistent concerns about epistemic, juridical and other violences circulating around feminism, …
Intervening in Northern Ireland: Critically re‐thinking representations of the conflict
This article introduces the main themes that underpin this special issue, namely representations of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Overall a primary aim of this collection is to problematize how the conflict has conventionally been represented, particularly through scholarly work. A central reason for doing this is the suspicion that conventional analyses of the conflict, especially in the context of the persistent search for solutions, may be…
Gender Ghosts in McGarry and O'Leary and Representations of the Conflict in Northern Ireland
This article focuses on how ideas about gender function in academic analyses of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Part of the reason for doing this is to explore the paradox afflicting contemporary feminism, namely that in the midst of apparent success feminism still seems largely irrelevant to matters of political significance. A second reason involves a demonstration of the political value of poststructural feminism. To achieve these aims, I fi…
Forget(ting) feminism? Investigating relationality in international relations
What kind of theoretical or methodological changes are needed to more effectively theorize global politics? This question is one increasingly posed, one reason being the ever burgeoning weight of violence on our global political landscapes. To investigate this, the central concept examined at the workshop from which this special section emanates was relationality. Motivated by feminist scholarship, my initial question was, ‘Why did we not focus t…
Parenting Mediates the Effects of Income and Cumulative Risk on the Development of Effortful Control
This study tested the hypothesis that the effects of income and cumulative risk on the development of effortful control during preschool would be mediated by parenting. The study utilized a community sample of 306 children (36–40 months) representing the full range of family income, with 29 percent at or near poverty and 28 percent lower income. Two dimensions of effortful control (executive control and delay ability) were assessed at four time p…
Material hardship level and unpredictability in relation to U.S. households’ family interactions and emotional well-being: Insights from the Covid-19 pandemic
Where is Woman in International Relations? 'To Return as a Woman and Be Heard
Unthinking” sexual violence in a neoliberal era of spectacular terror
The article begins with a question about the value of revitalising the equation between sexual/intimate violence and terrorism in the current neoliberal/post-feminist political and epistemological landscape. We argue that the intensifying international interest in sexual violence, and an accompanying hyper-visual imagery, is implicated in the cauterisation of critical thought about sexual violence. We offer the more mobile and expansive concept o…
The Women/'Women' Question in International Relations
Assessing, Engaging, and Enacting Worlds: Tensions in Feminist Method/Ologies
Our methods, methodologies, and ways of producing and communicating knowledge not only orient the questions we ask and the knowledges we pursue, but they also direct the effects and purposes of our work. Methods enact our worlds (Law and Urry 2004Law, J., and J. Urry. 2004. “Enacting the Social.” Economy and Society 33 (3): 390–410. doi:10.1080/0308514042000225716 [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] ). While many femi…
The Interaction between Negative Emotionality and Effortful Control in Early Social‐emotional Development
Interactions between reactive and regulatory dimensions of temperament may be particularly relevant to children's adjustment but are examined infrequently. This study investigated these interactions by examining effortful control as a moderator of the relations of fear and frustration reactivity to children's social competence, internalizing, and externalizing problems. Participants included 306 three-year-old children and their mothers. Children…
What do we need feminist solidarity for
The Debauching of Feminist Theory/the Penetration of the Postmodern
The triumph of anti-genderism
Theorising sexual violence in global politics: Improvising with feminist theory
A key curiosity animating this article concerns how sexual violence is theorised. The work of feminist scholars has been crucial in unearthing ways in which women's traditionally demeaned bodies regularly materialised as ‘easy targets’ for such violence. The gift of the concept of gender has played a significant role in facilitating the production of this corpus of knowledge. Less noticed in the literature, in policy and legislation has been sexu…
Research ethics and epistemic oppression
Both in theory and practice, a consistent interrogation of epistemic oppression and the shadows that it casts is the leitmotif of our editorial engagement, or (im)print on the International Feminis
Epistemological pitfalls of homogenization in the politics of resistance
The discipline of international relations (IR) is a terrain of global, gendered, racialized politics. These politics, new and old, are deeply rooted, and embedded in structures of racial and gender
Thinking feminism and race through the war on terror
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMarysia ZalewskiProfessor Marysia Zalewski has published widely in the field of feminism, gender, masculinities in/and International Relations. Her latest book Feminist International Relations: Exquisite Corpse was published by Routledge in March 2013
Logical Contradictions in Feminist Health Care: A Rejoinder to Peggy Foster
Peggy Foster's article (1989) aims to look at the principles and practice of the feminist health care model, within which the doctor/patient relationship is radically redesigned. Her article is a timely, welcome and excellent expose of the problems women have with health care. She presents an enlightening account of current attempts to introduce health care delivery based on feminist principles, outlining future possible strategies and pointing o…
The Debauching of Feminist Theory/the Penetration of the Postmodern
The Women/'Women' Question in International Relations
Feminism and international relations
Journal Article Feminism and international relations Get access Feminism and international relations. By Sandra Whitworth. London: Macmillan. 1994. 184pp. Index. £35.00. ISBN 0 333 60692 2. Marysia Zalewski Marysia Zalewski 1University of Wales, Aberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 596–597, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624852 Published: 01 July…
Well, what is the feminist perspective on Bosnia
Journal Article ‘Well, what is the feminist perspective on Bosnia?’ Get access Marysia Zalewski Marysia Zalewski Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 2, April 1995, Pages 339–356, https://doi.org/10.2307/2623438 Published: 01 April 1995
‘All these theories yet the bodies keep piling up’: Theories, theorists, theorising
What difference does it make that the contributors to this volume have varying understandings and conceptions of theory? Are the variations significant and if so to whom and why? Debates about theory sometimes bring out the worst in those of us involved in the discipline of International Relations. Academic conferences, and the resulting volumes, are often the places where insults get hurled both by those who consider themselves, or are considere…
Human rights of women: National and international perspectives and Women's rights, human rights
Journal Article Human rights of women: national and international perspectives and Women's rights, human rights Get access Human rights of women: national and international perspectives. Edited by Rebecca J. Cook. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1994. 634pp. Index, ISBN 0 8122 3261 5. Pb.: £20.95; ISBN 0 8122 1538 9.Women's rights, human rights. Edited by Julie Petersand Andrea Wolper. London: Routledge. 1995. 372pp. Index. £4…
Where is Woman in International Relations? 'To Return as a Woman and Be Heard
Feminist Theorizing from Bananas to Maneuvers
Interviews Cynthia Enloe, author of the feminist book 'Bananas, Beaches and Bases.' Implications of the absence of women within the field of international relations; Awareness of motivation behind feminist writing; Dependence of states on women and on particular ideas of femininity
Playing ‘like a girl’: A response to Molly Cochran
(1999). Playing ‘like a girl’: A response to Molly Cochran. Cambridge Review of International Affairs: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 57-60
Worlding women
Feminism After Postmodernism: Theorising Through Practice
Highly original and stimulating, this book provides a detailed overview of postmodern feminist theory and practice. Subjects covered include: *the differences between the feminism of the 1970s and contemporary feminism *liberal, radical, socialist and postmodern feminisms *feminist reactions to the growth in reproductive technologies *how feminism informs debates about the subject, epistemology and political action *feminism into the new millenni…
Feminism after Postmodernism: Theorising through practice
"Women's Troubles" Again in IR
The more that “feminism” has become a publicly visible term, the less sense both its practitioners and detractors have of what it is “about.” (Kavka 2001:ix) Misha Kavka's suggestion might not be warmly welcomed, or understood, in the discipline of International Relations (IR)—at least not among those scholars who persistently want to know exactly what feminists can usefully contribute to the discipline. The suggestion that feminism is controvers…
Commemorating Women's Studies
Special Section: Exceeding Sex and Gender
Product Review: Feminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey
Disturbing Hegemony: A Discussion Of The Work And Politics Of V. Spike Peterson
Gender Ghosts in McGarry and O'Leary and Representations of the Conflict in Northern Ireland
This article focuses on how ideas about gender function in academic analyses of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Part of the reason for doing this is to explore the paradox afflicting contemporary feminism, namely that in the midst of apparent success feminism still seems largely irrelevant to matters of political significance. A second reason involves a demonstration of the political value of poststructural feminism. To achieve these aims, I fi…
Intervening in Northern Ireland: Critically re‐thinking representations of the conflict
This article introduces the main themes that underpin this special issue, namely representations of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Overall a primary aim of this collection is to problematize how the conflict has conventionally been represented, particularly through scholarly work. A central reason for doing this is the suspicion that conventional analyses of the conflict, especially in the context of the persistent search for solutions, may be…
Do We Understand Each Other Yet? Troubling Feminist Encounters with(in) International Relations
This article suggests that although a distinction between ‘International Relations’ and ‘Gender and International Relations’ may be untenable, there is a continued need for feminist analysis of international politics. Yet to imagine gendered scholarship on international politics as more than IR's ‘other’ remains a challenge—though resisted as the articles in this issue demonstrate. This resistance is reassuring, especially given that ambitions to…
Negotiating difference/negotiating rights: The challenges and opportunities of women’s human rights
The year 2004 marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. A significant landmark in the development of a coherent strategy for the promotion and protection of women’s human rights, it established the principle that for women to enjoy equal rights, they needed an extra layer of ‘protection’. More importantly, it detailed states’ legal obligations in the area of women…
Rethinking the Man Question: Sex, Gender and Violence in International Relations
The reality of international relations and its academic study are still almost entirely constituted by men. Rethinking the Man Question is a crucial investigation and reinvigoration of debates about gender and international relations. Following on from the seminal The Man Question in International Relations this book looks at the increasingly violent and ‘toxic’ nature of world politics post 9/11. Contributors including Raewyn Connell, Kimberley …
Rethinking the Man Question
Roundtable Discussion: Reflections on the Past, Prospects for the Future in Gender and International Relations
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