CISD Annual Law Lecture Interview - Professor Ann Towns

When public office opened up for women among the states of the early 20th century, there were generally two exceptions: women were not allowed to join the military or diplomacy. Not until the past two decades have a growing number of women entered diplomacy. What does the encounter between women and diplomacy – which was male-dominated for over a century – look like? In what ways are diplomatic practices gendered? How do women diplomats experience and navigate the gendered terrain of diplomacy? What theoretical insights might a study of gender and diplomacy bring to diplomatic studies and its recent turn to practices? Marissa Conway, CFFP Co-Founder and UK Director is joined by Professor Ann Towns - PI of the Gender and Diplomacy (GenDip) Program in political science at the University of Gothenburg, who will address these questions in a talk on her new book project.