Pages 554–557

doi: 10.1017/S1049096516000974

In “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, and Zombies are from … Feminist Theories of International Politics and Zombies” that appeared in PS: Political Science & Politics, vol. 49, no. 3, pages 554 to 557, published online on 15 July, 2016 and in print 5 July, 2016, as part of the symposium “Mainstreaming Gender in the Teaching and Learning of Politics,” edited by Brooke Ackerly and Liza Mügge, I argued that even a text that excludes feminism can provide a basis for incorporating feminist analysis into classroom discussions. I offered some insights about how one might do that using Dan Drezner’s Theories of International Politics and Zombies (2011). In the 2011 edition, Drezner summarily dismissed feminist theories and this inspired my choice of his text to demonstrate the thesis of the article. As Charli Carpenter notes in An (Un)Dead Letter?, Drezner revised and “revived” the book by adding a chapter on “The Supergendered Politics of the Posthuman World” (2014), drawing on insights from feminist colleagues including Charli Carpenter, Stephanie Carvin, Nancy Hite, Laura McKenna, Kate McNamara, Laura Sjoberg and Mariah Zeisberg. Drezner’s new chapter introduced some of the ways in which feminist theories can be used to speculate about the effects of a zombie apocalypse and, as such, appropriately acknowledged feminist theories of international relations. His revised chapter provided professors with a useful tool for introducing students in international relations classes to gender analysis and feminist approaches to international relations. Importantly for the purposes of the symposium on gender and pedagogy, Drezner demonstrated that even those who do not engage in feminist scholarship themselves can incorporate feminist and gender-relevant insights into their teaching.