Jill Steans
Biographic Data
| ID | 1370459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Steans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Steans |
| SIGNATURE | STEANS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reading the troubling case of Leni Riefenstahl through aesthetic and feminist lenses
Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most talented and one of the most notorious women of the twentieth century. Her gift as a filmmaker secured her a place in the history of cinema. She put this gift to the service of the Nazis. Throughout her life, she steadfastly defended her identity as an artist who merely documented events in Nazi Germany. However, she was unable to escape dominant representations of her in Germany as a woman of evil who seduced…
Telling Stories about Sexual Violence, Victimization, and Agency in Militarized Settings
In this article, I contribute to a debate among feminist scholars on whether survivors of sexual violence should be seen as passive victims or as agents who possess the capacity to resist or actively fight back against their assailants. I probe this question in the context of militarized settings, following those scholars who have challenged the constructions of victimhood and agency as a binary and who have instead conceptualized survivors as bo…
The new materialism
This article re-claims and invigorates the debate on 'New Materialism' as it is unfolding within Marxist political economy specifically. We choose this site to make our intervention in the debate because, while Marxism claims to makes visible the poor, dispossessed and those 'left behind' in the contemporary global capitalist economy, we discern, in contributions made thus far, a marked tendency to sideline the rich tradition of feminist historic…
Gender, War and Conflict
Laura Sjoberg's new text Gender, War and Conflict is a welcome addition to the burgeoning feminist literature in International Relations (IR). Taking as her point of departure the increasing number
An Introduction to International Relations Theory
This long-awaited new edition has been fully updated and revised by the original authors as well as two new members of the author team. Based on many years of active research and teaching it takes the discipline's most difficult aspects and makes them accessible and interesting. Each chapter builds up an understanding of the different ways of looking at the world. The clarity of presentation allows students to rapidly develop a theoretical framew…
Introduction to International Relations Theory
The global and gendered dimensions of citizenship, community and ‘cohesion’
Conversations
Revisionist Heroes and Dissident Heroines
This article focuses on three films produced in the Soviet Union between 1956 and 1966, a period encompassing both “the Thaw” and the rise of the dissident movement. In distinctive ways these films challenge aspects of both “official” discourses on war and cinematic representations of war that prevailed in the Stalin era. The article interrogates changing representations of heroes, heroines and heroism, the concomitant challenges to prevailing re…
Introduction – Social reproduction in international political economy
This introduction provides an introduction to current innovative theoretical and empirical research on social reproduction. While the work showcased herein is by scholars from Europe and North America (reflecting a western bias), the diversity in the empirical cases goes some way to overcoming the focus on North American countries. The contributions vary from transnational accounts of social reproduction to the study of changes in social reproduc…
Telling Stories about Women and Gender in the War on Terror
This article focuses on the role of gender in boundary-drawing practices, in the construction of identities and in the discursive construction and depiction of the “body politic” in the War on Terror. It argues that the evocation of “liberated Western women” and “oppressed Muslim” women in narratives on the War on Terror has been useful in the project of casting the United States as a beacon of civilisation and in constructing, reinforcing and re…
Debating women’s human rights as a universal feminist project
The central aims of this article are twofold: first to debate whether or not women’s human rights can underpin a universal feminist project; second to defend women’s human rights as a useful political tool that can be used to challenge injustice and discrimination against women. The first section of the article briefly sets out the universality/particularity debate in both human rights theory and in feminist theory. This serves as a point of depa…
Negotiating the politics of difference in the project of feminist solidarity
The article is concerned with the constitutive tension between solidarity and difference in feminist practice. It is argued that while a ‘politics of difference’ has dogged efforts to build feminist solidarity across the boundaries of class, nation, ethnicity and religion, this does not refute the continuing importance of the concept of solidarity in understanding the dynamic interaction of agents in transnational political space. Drawing upon a …
Negotiating the politics of gender and rights
This article undertakes a review of the development of the women's human rights project, focusing particularly on violence against women and issues of sexuality and reproductive rights. It notes gains by activists in promoting the women's human rights agenda and highlights the continuing impediments to the project from increasingly influential groups and some United Nations member states opposed to women's human rights. A more general problem is …
A useful dialogue? Habermas and International Relations
It is now more than twenty years since Jürgen Habermas's work was first referred to in International Relations (IR) theory. Along with many other continental philosophers and social theorists, Habermas was initially mobilised in the critique of positivism, and in particular neorealism, in IR theory. As such, the interest in Habermas and IR must be located in the first instance within the context of the fourth debate. This Forum section of the Rev…
Engaging from the Margins
The private is global
(1999). The private is global: Feminist politics and global political economy. New Political Economy: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 113-128
Introduction – Social reproduction in international political economy
This introduction provides an introduction to current innovative theoretical and empirical research on social reproduction. While the work showcased herein is by scholars from Europe and North America (reflecting a western bias), the diversity in the empirical cases goes some way to overcoming the focus on North American countries. The contributions vary from transnational accounts of social reproduction to the study of changes in social reproduc…
Engaging from the Margins
A useful dialogue? Habermas and International Relations
It is now more than twenty years since Jürgen Habermas's work was first referred to in International Relations (IR) theory. Along with many other continental philosophers and social theorists, Habermas was initially mobilised in the critique of positivism, and in particular neorealism, in IR theory. As such, the interest in Habermas and IR must be located in the first instance within the context of the fourth debate. This Forum section of the Rev…
Telling Stories about Sexual Violence, Victimization, and Agency in Militarized Settings
In this article, I contribute to a debate among feminist scholars on whether survivors of sexual violence should be seen as passive victims or as agents who possess the capacity to resist or actively fight back against their assailants. I probe this question in the context of militarized settings, following those scholars who have challenged the constructions of victimhood and agency as a binary and who have instead conceptualized survivors as bo…
Telling Stories about Women and Gender in the War on Terror
This article focuses on the role of gender in boundary-drawing practices, in the construction of identities and in the discursive construction and depiction of the “body politic” in the War on Terror. It argues that the evocation of “liberated Western women” and “oppressed Muslim” women in narratives on the War on Terror has been useful in the project of casting the United States as a beacon of civilisation and in constructing, reinforcing and re…
Negotiating the politics of difference in the project of feminist solidarity
The article is concerned with the constitutive tension between solidarity and difference in feminist practice. It is argued that while a ‘politics of difference’ has dogged efforts to build feminist solidarity across the boundaries of class, nation, ethnicity and religion, this does not refute the continuing importance of the concept of solidarity in understanding the dynamic interaction of agents in transnational political space. Drawing upon a …
The private is global
(1999). The private is global: Feminist politics and global political economy. New Political Economy: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 113-128
The new materialism
This article re-claims and invigorates the debate on 'New Materialism' as it is unfolding within Marxist political economy specifically. We choose this site to make our intervention in the debate because, while Marxism claims to makes visible the poor, dispossessed and those 'left behind' in the contemporary global capitalist economy, we discern, in contributions made thus far, a marked tendency to sideline the rich tradition of feminist historic…
Debating women’s human rights as a universal feminist project
The central aims of this article are twofold: first to debate whether or not women’s human rights can underpin a universal feminist project; second to defend women’s human rights as a useful political tool that can be used to challenge injustice and discrimination against women. The first section of the article briefly sets out the universality/particularity debate in both human rights theory and in feminist theory. This serves as a point of depa…
Gender, War and Conflict
Laura Sjoberg's new text Gender, War and Conflict is a welcome addition to the burgeoning feminist literature in International Relations (IR). Taking as her point of departure the increasing number
Revisionist Heroes and Dissident Heroines
This article focuses on three films produced in the Soviet Union between 1956 and 1966, a period encompassing both “the Thaw” and the rise of the dissident movement. In distinctive ways these films challenge aspects of both “official” discourses on war and cinematic representations of war that prevailed in the Stalin era. The article interrogates changing representations of heroes, heroines and heroism, the concomitant challenges to prevailing re…
The private is global
(1999). The private is global: Feminist politics and global political economy. New Political Economy: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 113-128
Engaging from the Margins
Negotiating the politics of gender and rights
This article undertakes a review of the development of the women's human rights project, focusing particularly on violence against women and issues of sexuality and reproductive rights. It notes gains by activists in promoting the women's human rights agenda and highlights the continuing impediments to the project from increasingly influential groups and some United Nations member states opposed to women's human rights. A more general problem is …
A useful dialogue? Habermas and International Relations
It is now more than twenty years since Jürgen Habermas's work was first referred to in International Relations (IR) theory. Along with many other continental philosophers and social theorists, Habermas was initially mobilised in the critique of positivism, and in particular neorealism, in IR theory. As such, the interest in Habermas and IR must be located in the first instance within the context of the fourth debate. This Forum section of the Rev…
Telling Stories about Women and Gender in the War on Terror
This article focuses on the role of gender in boundary-drawing practices, in the construction of identities and in the discursive construction and depiction of the “body politic” in the War on Terror. It argues that the evocation of “liberated Western women” and “oppressed Muslim” women in narratives on the War on Terror has been useful in the project of casting the United States as a beacon of civilisation and in constructing, reinforcing and re…
Debating women’s human rights as a universal feminist project
The central aims of this article are twofold: first to debate whether or not women’s human rights can underpin a universal feminist project; second to defend women’s human rights as a useful political tool that can be used to challenge injustice and discrimination against women. The first section of the article briefly sets out the universality/particularity debate in both human rights theory and in feminist theory. This serves as a point of depa…
Negotiating the politics of difference in the project of feminist solidarity
The article is concerned with the constitutive tension between solidarity and difference in feminist practice. It is argued that while a ‘politics of difference’ has dogged efforts to build feminist solidarity across the boundaries of class, nation, ethnicity and religion, this does not refute the continuing importance of the concept of solidarity in understanding the dynamic interaction of agents in transnational political space. Drawing upon a …
Revisionist Heroes and Dissident Heroines
This article focuses on three films produced in the Soviet Union between 1956 and 1966, a period encompassing both “the Thaw” and the rise of the dissident movement. In distinctive ways these films challenge aspects of both “official” discourses on war and cinematic representations of war that prevailed in the Stalin era. The article interrogates changing representations of heroes, heroines and heroism, the concomitant challenges to prevailing re…
Introduction – Social reproduction in international political economy
This introduction provides an introduction to current innovative theoretical and empirical research on social reproduction. While the work showcased herein is by scholars from Europe and North America (reflecting a western bias), the diversity in the empirical cases goes some way to overcoming the focus on North American countries. The contributions vary from transnational accounts of social reproduction to the study of changes in social reproduc…
Conversations
The global and gendered dimensions of citizenship, community and ‘cohesion’
An Introduction to International Relations Theory
This long-awaited new edition has been fully updated and revised by the original authors as well as two new members of the author team. Based on many years of active research and teaching it takes the discipline's most difficult aspects and makes them accessible and interesting. Each chapter builds up an understanding of the different ways of looking at the world. The clarity of presentation allows students to rapidly develop a theoretical framew…
Introduction to International Relations Theory
Gender, War and Conflict
Laura Sjoberg's new text Gender, War and Conflict is a welcome addition to the burgeoning feminist literature in International Relations (IR). Taking as her point of departure the increasing number
The new materialism
This article re-claims and invigorates the debate on 'New Materialism' as it is unfolding within Marxist political economy specifically. We choose this site to make our intervention in the debate because, while Marxism claims to makes visible the poor, dispossessed and those 'left behind' in the contemporary global capitalist economy, we discern, in contributions made thus far, a marked tendency to sideline the rich tradition of feminist historic…
Reading the troubling case of Leni Riefenstahl through aesthetic and feminist lenses
Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most talented and one of the most notorious women of the twentieth century. Her gift as a filmmaker secured her a place in the history of cinema. She put this gift to the service of the Nazis. Throughout her life, she steadfastly defended her identity as an artist who merely documented events in Nazi Germany. However, she was unable to escape dominant representations of her in Germany as a woman of evil who seduced…
Telling Stories about Sexual Violence, Victimization, and Agency in Militarized Settings
In this article, I contribute to a debate among feminist scholars on whether survivors of sexual violence should be seen as passive victims or as agents who possess the capacity to resist or actively fight back against their assailants. I probe this question in the context of militarized settings, following those scholars who have challenged the constructions of victimhood and agency as a binary and who have instead conceptualized survivors as bo…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (5 works)