Introduction: the politics of gender / Yoke-Lian Lee -- Not a woman hater: Hobbe's critique of patriarchy / Glen Newey -- Politics of difference and activism at intersections: Romani women in Eastern and Central Europe / Lena J. Kruckenberg -- Class, violence and masculinity in Hollywood movies: a new-Marxian meta-narrative / Vassilis K. Fouskas -- The gender politics of international relations / Jill Steans -- Plus ðca (climate) change, plus c'est la mãeme (masculinist) chose; gender politics and the discourses of climate change / Sherilyn MacGregor -- The politics of gender: the case of the female trafficked migrant / Sharon A. Fitzgerald -- Feminist imperialism: ravel writing and journalism past and present / Corrine Fowler -- Gender and/as genocide / Tawia Ansah -- Maintaining gender into the African Union peace ans security agenda / Tim Murithi -- Sovereignty, subjectivity and human rights: a gender sketch / Yoke-Lian Lee.