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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Bringing women 'on board' -- Contribution -- Malaysia: The planning and politics of economic competitiveness -- An international political economy of competitiveness -- Competitiveness and (gendered) state transformation -- Chapter structure -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Promoting competitiveness in Malaysia -- The appeal to competitiveness -- Stuck in the middle? -- Planning for competitiveness: The new public management -- Competitiveness, enterprising individuals, and ethnicity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Transforming women's economic participation: Gender policies as competitiveness promotion -- The state as a site of gender politics -- Doing gender and development policymaking within the Malaysian state -- Women and work in Malaysia: Background -- Planning to increase women's labour force participation -- Reorienting the household economy to the service of the knowledge economy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: 'A first-class mentality with a heart for progress'1: The family, Islam, and the moral political economy of competitiveness -- Conceptualising the moral political economy: Crafting consumer-citizens as a moral project -- Refashioning the modern Malaysian family -- State family policy and the SMARTSTART programme -- Islamic modernities and economic competitiveness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Civil society, market feminism, and the creation of 'board ready' women -- Gender politics and women's activism -- Feminist or corporate success story? Women's representation on corporate boards -- Critics or complicit? Civil society and economic transformation in Malaysia -- Conclusion -- Notes.

The diverse collection of short reflections included in this Critical Perspectives section looks to continue a conversation—a conversation that played out in the pages of this journal (Elias 2015) regarding the relationship between two strands of feminist international relations scholarship: feminist security studies (FSS) and feminist international political economy (IPE). In this forum, the contributors return to some of the same ground, but in doing so, they bring in new concerns and agendas. New empirical sites of thinking through the nexus between security and political economy from a feminist perspective are explored: war, women's lives in postconflict societies, and international security governance institutions and practices.

The essays here reflect on the need to rebuild bridges between two key strands of feminist International Relations (IR) scholarship: feminist security studies (FSS) and feminist (international) political economy (FPE/FIPE). As many of the contributions to this section point out, feminist IR scholarship has long emphasized how gender relations and identities are constituted globally in relation to processes of militarization, securitization, globalization, and governance. In more recent years, however, feminist IR scholarship has come to be dominated by a concern with security (Prügl 2011). Of course, FPE scholarship has continued to provide critical accounts of the gendered nature of global production, work, and financial crises (among other issues). But it is notable that, in doing so, much FPE scholarship has tended to avoid questions of security and/or violence. This CP section, then, looks to the growing divide between FSS and FPE with all of the contributors seeking to analyse how these two traditions of feminist scholarship might be reintegrated and why this reintegration is important.