Sex, Power, and Politics: Exploring the Femme Fatale's Mastery of the Political Throughout History

ISBN-13: 9781137363688 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 205 str.

Tiffiany Howard; Nerses Kopalyan; T. Howard

Opis

Sex, Power, and Politics is a deconstruction of the historic femme fatale that serves to highlight the women who occupied perceived subordinate roles and how they were systematically calculating and strategic in the utilization of their femininity and sexuality to engage in politics, influence powerful men, and ultimately shape history.

O autorze

Tiffiany Howard is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. She received her dual PhD in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of Michigan, USA. Her fields of specialization include international relations, conflict and security, international and domestic migration policy, gender politics, and quantitative methodology. Professor Howard has conducted extensive research across her areas of interest and is the author of Failed States and the Origins of Violence: A Comparative Analysis of State Failure as a Root Cause of Terrorism and Political Violence (2014) and The Tragedy of Failure: Evaluating State Failure and its Impact on the Spread of Refugees, Terrorism and War (2010). Other notable peer reviewed publications appear in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Civil Wars, and Immigrants and Minorities.

Nerses Kopalyan is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA and his fields of specialization include international relations, political theory, and philosophy of science. Professor Kopalyan has conducted extensive research on analytic philosophy, feminist theory, paradigm building, and international relations; and he currently has several peer reviewed articles under review. He has also taught a number of subject related courses including, Theories of Power, Politics of Paradigms, Survey of Political Theory, and Recent Political Theory.

Blurb

Sex, Power, and Politics is a deconstruction of the historic femme fatale and serves to highlight the women who occupied perceived subordinate roles and how they were systematically calculating and strategic in the utilization of their femininity and sexuality to engage in politics, influence powerful men, and ultimately shape history. Howard and Kopalyan typifies and elaborates upon the ontological dominance of the femme fatale and her ruthless acquisition of political power. Intended to be a largely exhaustive historiography of courtesans, mistresses, and concubines who challenged the traditional gender-power dynamic during the time periods in which they lived, the book evaluates the roles and status of women in a variety of social and political contexts. It does so by drawing upon diverse historical settings to illustrate the historical precedence of notably powerful and ambitious women who instead of being hindered by their sexuality, perceived subordinate roles, and rigid patriarchal mores, effectively utilized it as a modality for acquiring and asserting political power in a world with limited options and resources for women of ambition.