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= V. Spike Peterson = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

'''V. Spike Peterson''' is a professor of International Relations at the University of Arizona, in the School of Government and Public Policy (with courtesy appointments in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Institute for LGBT Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, and International Studies). Her research and teaching is cross-disciplinary, with an international focus, specifically concerned with International Relations Theory, Gender and Politics, Global Political Economy, and Contemporary Social Theory. Professor Peterson is 'considered to be among the most internationally important senior scholars currently working at the intersections of International Relations, Feminist and Queer Theory, and of International Political Economy.'

Career
Like other feminist scholars in the field of International Relations, Peterson studies the workings of power, and socially-constructed ideas about gender, in global politics. Rethinking the terms of IR analyses, International Relations scholars using a feminist lens seek to broaden the space in which critical approaches to politics are explored -  amongst other features of the international system, critiques are applied to the social reproduction of identities and ideologies, heteronormativity, and structural hierarchies. Peterson describes her research and personal interests as concerned with difference, and with crossing borders - both 'conceptually and territorially'. She has written and published over 75 book chapters and journal articles. As well as her role at the University of Arizona, she has been an Associate Fellow at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics (2008-2011), and has held Visiting Research Scholar or Professorships at Durham University (2014), the London School of Economics (2007, 2008), University of Göteborg (2000), University of Bristo l (1998) and the Australian National University (1995).

V. Spike Peterson holds a Ph.D. in International Relations, from American University, Washington, DC, 1988, an M.A. in Social Science: Anthropology/African Studies, from the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1975 and a B.S. with Honors, in Psychology/Philosophy, from the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1970.

Publications[edit source]

 * Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory (Ed.) (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992). ISBN 978-1555873288
 * Global Gender Issues (Dilemmas in World Politics), with Professor Anne Sisson Runyan (Westview Press, 1993). ISBN 978-0813313108
 * Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium (Dilemmas in World Politics) with Professor Anne Sisson Runyan (Westview Press, 2013).
 * A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies (Routledge, 2003).
 * "Transgressing boundaries: Theories of knowledge, gender and international relations" Millenium 21 (1992): 183-206.
 * "Whose Rights? A Critique of the" Givens" in Human Rights Discourse." Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 15.3 (1990): 303-344.
 * "How (the meaning of) gender matters in political economy." New Political Economy 10.4 (2005): 499-521.