Fixing Gender

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Fixing Gender is written by Aiko Holvikivi and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197774040 (ISBN 10) and 9780197774045 (ISBN 13).

Through an ethnographic study of gender training practices in peacekeeping institutions, Aiko Holvikivi examines how gender is conceptualised, taught, and learned in these settings, and with what political effects. She finds that this training constitutes a deeply ambivalent practice from the point of view of intersectional feminist political commitments. Drawing on queer and postcolonial feminist thought, Fixing Gender examines the contradictory politics of gender training, arguing that we need to develop the analytical tools to grapple with paradoxical practices that are simultaneously good and bad feminist politics.