Jan jindy pettman biography examples

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Jan Pettman’s Living in the Margins: Racism, Sexism and Feminism in Australia (Allen and Unwin 1992) was a valuable book, summarising and explaining the state of debates within feminist theorising and scholarship on the relationship between race and gender, racism and sexism.

It has been quoted extensively in subsequent debate, and used frequently in teaching. Her new book, Worlding Women: a Feminist International Politics , (Allen and Unwin 1994) promises to have a similar impact, for it is a very similar kind of book; both a critique of the existing discipline of International Relations, which she describes and evokes as profoundly masculinist, and an attempt to synthesise the work of recent feminist scholarship aiming to provide a more gender-conscious alternative.

Pettman interprets the field far beyond the confines of tradi