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Sex, Power, and Politics is a deconstruction of the historic femme fatale that serves to highlight the women who occupied perceived subordinate roles and how they were systematically calculating and strategic in the utilization of their femininity and sexuality to engage in politics, influence powerful men, and ultimately shape history.

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Howard and Kopalyan's Sex, Power, and Politics traces the ways that femininity has played a role throughout the history of global politics. Looking at women who capitalized on, transgressed, and manipulated inherited gender roles - femme fatales - the book complicates histories of sexuality, power, and politics in controversial, interesting, and inspiring ways. - Laura Sjoberg, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Florida, USA Howard and Kopalyan have written a remarkable book on the concept of femme fatale. Through a rich historical analysis, this book offers a theoretically sophisticated analysis. It is a must-read for scholars and students of politics and history. - Yasemin Besen-Cassino, Associate Professor of Sociology, Montclair State University, USA

Howard and Kopalyan s Sex, Power, and Politics traces the ways that femininity has played a role throughout the history of global politics. Looking at women who capitalized on, transgressed, and manipulated inherited gender roles femme fatales the book complicates histories of sexuality, power, and politics in controversial, interesting, and inspiring ways. - Laura Sjoberg, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Florida, USA Howard and Kopalyan have written a remarkable book on the concept of femme fatale. Through a rich historical analysis, this book offers a theoretically sophisticated analysis. It is a must-read for scholars and students of politics and history. - Yasemin Besen-Cassino, Associate Professor of Sociology, Montclair State University, USA

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Tiffiany Howard is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. She received her dual PhD in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of Michigan, USA. Her fields of specialization include international relations, conflict and security, international and domestic migration policy, gender politics, and quantitative methodology. Professor Howard has conducted extensive research across her areas of interest and is the author of Failed States and the Origins of Violence: A Comparative Analysis of State Failure as a Root Cause of Terrorism and Political Violence (2014) and The Tragedy of Failure: Evaluating State Failure and its Impact on the Spread of Refugees, Terrorism and War (2010). Other notable peer reviewed publications appear in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Civil Wars, and Immigrants and Minorities. Nerses Kopalyan is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA and his fields of specialization include international relations, political theory, and philosophy of science. Professor Kopalyan has conducted extensive research on analytic philosophy, feminist theory, paradigm building, and international relations; and he currently has several peer reviewed articles under review. He has also taught a number of subject related courses including, Theories of Power, Politics of Paradigms, Survey of Political Theory, and Recent Political Theory.

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