Book Excerpt! Sex and World Peace, By Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, and Chad F. Emmett (chapter 1)

“This is an important, well written, and informative book that will serve a wide audience of graduate and undergraduate students, academics, and policymakers, as well as the interested public.”

~Helen M. Kinsella, Ethics and International Affairs

We are excited to have Sex and World Peace, by Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, and Chad F. Emmett, be part of the Our Shared Shelf book club, founded by Emma Watson. Our Shared Shelf features intersectional feminist books, and this work is the perfect addition. The authors compare micro-level gender violence and macro-level state peacefulness in global settings and find that the treatment of women informs human interaction at all levels of society. Get a head start on your reading with this excerpt from chapter 1 of this work.