Gender and Diplomacy

This edited collection aims to bring new contexts and research innovations to study the changing nature of gender in diplomacy. Whilst historically most diplomats were men, in the twenty-first century, the proportion of women (and others of diverse backgrounds) has increased markedly and in select cases, surpasses men. Digital diplomacy, glass cliffs, diplomatic gatekeeping, nation branding, queer and critical race studies and more have begun to be studied in the context of gender and diplomacy, raising new questions, in new contexts, and driving new innovations in diplomacy. How is diplomacy responding to these changes? How does gender, sexuality and race intersect to reproduce diplomatic relations?

This edited collection unpacks the queering of diplomacy, the security/diplomacy nexus, gender and West/non-West distinctions in diplomacy, gender and foreign policy, and women in MFAs and foreign service.

Foreword: Trends Over Time. - 1 Introduction: Critical Junctures, Pockets of Progress, and Building Backlash for Gender in Diplomacy. - Part I: Contentious and (In)Visible: New Domains in Gender+ and Diplomacy. - 2 Missing Post Reports: Locating the Queer Diplomat Biography. - 3 The Gendered Figurations of Women Diplomats and the Volumetric Presence of China in Nepal. - 4 Women in 20th Century German Diplomacy: A History of Firsts. - Part II: Not just Adding and Stirring: Women Implementing of Foreign Policy. - 5 Women Diplomats During the Interwar Period: Alexandra Kollontai and Palma Guillén in Latin America. - 6 Women in Small States Diplomacy: Gender-Related Challenges in Lithuania s Foreign Service. - 7 Bridging the Gender Gap in Global Diplomacy: Policy Implementation in the Scandinavian Foreign Services. - Part III: Networks, Reflections, Transformations: Engaging the Frontiers of Gender in Foreign Policy. - 8 The (Re)Emergence of Women s Organisations of Diplomats (WODs) in the 21st Century: Sites of Creative Agency for the (Re)Staging of Differentiated Subjectivities in Diplomacy? . - 9 Women Ambassadors in the UN Security Council: Are They Shaping the Practice of Diplomacy? . - 10 Feminist Oral Life History in Gender and Diplomacy Research. - Conclusion: Future Directions, Innovations, Theory and Research on Gender and Diplomacy.