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A review essay on books by (1) Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics (London: Routledge, 1996); & (2) Sandra Whitworth, Feminism and International Relations ([revised edition] London: Macmillan, 1994). These works are reviewed in the context of feminism in international relations (IR) & international political economy (IPE), as examples of the value of multidisciplinary approaches to these issues. Pettman's focus on the links between gender issues in IPE, the gendered politics of identities & of peace & war is contrasted to Whitworth's analysis of gender & IPE in international institutions. Both books defend claims of the male gendering of IR theory & practice & explain women's subordination in terms of the gendered nature of the global political economy. Both are criticized for identifying, but then not advocating, social & political change to improve the situation of women & fulfill the radical potential of IR & IPE. Pettman is praised for addressing key issues & avoiding entaglement in tired methodological debates; Whitworth confronts them head-on. It is concluded that feminist IPE's potential will not be realized without substantive ethical justifications, which receive little attention in these two works. 4 References. T. Arnold

In the United Provinces a few hundred Europeans ruled nearly fifty million Indians. So few were not able to hold down so many by force, they could rule only with the acquiescence and assistance of some of their subjects. Clearly the relationship between government and its allies was the crux of dominion. This essay examines that relationship. It shows who, between 1860 and 1906, government's allies were and how their support was won. It also touches upon the processes of economic, social and institutional change which constantly undermined this support and illustrates how government's techniques of political control developed in order to keep its old allies and to contain new opponents.