This book engages with current debates on human security, offering a variety of feminist perspectives on the gender reconfigurations of the state, power/knowledge systems, sexuality, care, labour and the implications of globalisation for people’s quotidian security. The essays present an integration of a feminist materialist analysis of gender relations with a feminist post-modern approach to gender representation and cultural construction. Contributors include Sunila Abeysekera, Rhoda Reddock, Gita Sen, Joyce Outshoorn, Rachel Kurian, and Virginia Vargas, among others.