This book engages with current debates on human security, offering a variety of
feminist perspectives on the gender reconfigurations of the state,
powerknowledge systems, sexuality, care, labour and the implications of
globalisation for people's quotidian security. A key thematic area concerns the
intersection between gender--as a domain of power -- and human security as a new
policy framework. The contributions in this book present an integration of a
feminist materialist analysis of gender relations with a feminist post-modern
approach to gender representation and cultural construction. A combination of
the two approaches links culture with politics and economics, and integrates
analysis of class, ethnicity and other dimensions of