Abstract

Sexuality and international relations (IR) have long been seen as entirely separate fields of enquiry. In recent years, feminist interventions in IR have undermined this separation by examining the interplay of gender and sexual identities in nationalism and militarization, the role of women in the globalized sex industry and the activities of transnational gay and lesbian organizations. Faking it takes things much further: first, by using the poststructuralist and psychoanalytic tools of queer theory and, second, by applying these to US foreign policy in the Caribbean. In both her method and her area of study, Weber is boldly charting new waters here.

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