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Laura E. Sjoberg

Laura E. Sjoberg

Former Joint Research Fellow, International Security Program and the Women and Public Policy Program, 2005–2006

 

Experience

Former Joint Research Fellow, International Security Program and the Women and Public Policy Program, 2005–2006

Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

 

 

By Date

2006

December 2006

"Gendered Realities of the Immunity Principle: Why Gender Analysis Needs Feminism"

Journal Article, International Studies Quarterly, issue 4, volume 50

By Laura E. Sjoberg, Former Joint Research Fellow, International Security Program and the Women and Public Policy Program, 2005–2006

The discipline of international relations has had different reactions to the increased salience of gender advocacy in international politics; some have reacted by asking feminist questions about IR, while others have encouraged the study of gender as a variable disengaged from feminist advocacy. This article takes up this debate simultaneously with current debate on gender and the noncombatant immunity principle.

 

 

December 2006

"Feminism"

Book Chapter

By J. Ann Tickner and Laura E. Sjoberg, Former Joint Research Fellow, International Security Program and the Women and Public Policy Program, 2005–2006

J. Ann Tickner and Laura Sjoberg explain the theoretical background to feminism in international relations before showing how and why their theory matters.

 

 

May 2006

Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq: A Feminist Reformulation of Just War Theory

Book

By Laura E. Sjoberg, Former Joint Research Fellow, International Security Program and the Women and Public Policy Program, 2005–2006

"Sjoberg has developed her dissertation, a feminist analysis of the Iraq wars, into a vibrant addition to the just war literature. . . . Recommended."—Choice

 

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