ABSTRACT
Gendered and sexualized figurations are implicitly and explicitly drawn upon in security theory and practice. The chapter introduces theoretical and methodological framework to identify and analyse gendered and sexualized figurations. This framework draws heavily on Donna Haraway's conceptionalization of figuration in the context of Feminist Technoscience Studies and its employment by Cynthia Weber in the context of Queer International Relations. The chapter aims to put this framework to work in relation to three empirical examples of gendered and sexualized figurations. These empirical examples illustrate: first, how figurations of security are gendered as masculine and feminine and are embodied in the imagined figures of men and women. Second, how figurations of security are sexualized as heterosexual or homosexual and attached to a range of sexualized understandings of perverse and normal figurations. Third, how figurations of security are geomorphized as inanimate, non-human, geological or environmental sexed, gendered, and sexualized figurations of security.
