J. Ann Tickner

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J. Ann Tickner
Born
Judith Ann Tickner

1937 (age 86–87)
Feminism
Institutions
Doctoral studentsLaura Sjoberg
Notable works
  • Self-Reliance Versus Power Politics (1987)
  • "You Just Don't Understand" (1997)
  • Gendering World Politics (2001)

Judith Ann Tickner (born 1937)

feminist international relations (IR) theorist. Tickner is a distinguished scholar in residence at the School of International Services, American University
, Washington DC.

Career

Tickner served as president of the International Studies Association (ISA) from 2006 to 2007.[2] Since 2011, the ISA give out the J. Ann Tickner Award.[3]

After fifteen years as a Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, Tickner recently became a distinguished scholar in residence at the School of International Services, American University, Washington DC,[4] On June 4, 1999, Tickner received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden.[5]

Her books include Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era (Columbia University Press, 2001), Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving International Security (Columbia University Press, 1992), and Self-Reliance Versus Power Politics: American and Indian Experiences in Building Nation-States (Columbia University Press, 1987). One of Tickner's most famous journal articles was the piece "You Just Don't Understand" (

deconstructivist approach to knowledge, arguing that theories reflect the gendered social positioning of their authors; they therefore questioned positivist ("scientific") methods for obscuring the gendered politics of knowledge construction. She favors a social, "bottom-up" method of analysis that makes the role of women in IR visible, as opposed to the usual scientific methodologies that are "top-down" and focus on traditionally masculinist subjects, including men, money, and war. Feminist approaches to international relations are a phenomenon of the post–Cold War period. Feminist scholarly research began in the 1980s in various academic disciplines, from literature to psychology to history
.

Tickner was married to Hayward Alker until his death in 2007.[7]

Published works

  • Feminism and International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present and Future, ed. with Laura Sjoberg (Routledge, 2011).
  • Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era (Columbia University Press, 2001).
  • Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving International Security (Columbia University Press, 1992).
  • Self-Reliance Versus Power Politics: American and Indian Experiences in Building Nation-States (Columbia University Press, 1987).

See also

Notes

  1. ISBN 978-1-5381-0169-8
    .
  2. ISBN 978-0-19-084662-6
    . Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  3. ^ "J. Ann Tickner Award". www.isanet.org. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  4. ^ Mershon Center
  5. ^ Naylor, David. "Honorary doctorates - Uppsala University, Sweden". www.uu.se. Retrieved Apr 5, 2021.
  6. ISSN 0020-8833
    .
  7. ^ "In Memoriam: Hayward Alker > News > USC Dornsife". dornsife.usc.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.

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External links

Professional and academic associations
Preceded by President of the International Studies Association
2006–2007 		Succeeded by
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