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Author McLeod, Laura, author.

Title Gender politics and security discourse : personal-political imaginations and feminism in "post-conflict" Serbia / Laura McLeod
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 174 pages)
Series War, politics and experience
War, politics and experience.
Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction: interactions between gender politics and security discourse -- Boban's story : tracing the politics of gender security -- Gender security : a discourse that matters -- Picking the petals : profiling gender politics -- Reconceptualising security? -- A room of one's own : feminism, peace, and security -- Pulling the trigger : gender, domestic violence and security -- Conclusions
Summary This book investigates competing modes of thought about gender security and aims to understand the policy implications of personal-political imaginations. The work draws upon extensive research conducted by the author in Serbia to develop a comprehensive picture of how feminist and women's organising relates to the broader national and international contexts surrounding gender security. Through an innovative analytical framework of personal-political imaginations, the book explores the role that memories, perceptions and hopes about conflict and post-conflict have upon the logics of gender security. It investigates how contrasting and competing modes of thought about 'gender security'are made, paying attention to how the dynamics of gender politics in Serbia shape the security discourse and narratives of activists. The volume explores in detail how feminist and women's organisations have responded to UNSCR 1325 by analysing two policy debates and campaigns that seek to 'achieve'its goals and gender security in Serbia: (1) feminist antimilitarism and (2) connecting domestic violence to the abuse of small arms and light weapons. Ultimately, the book argues that the configuration of gender security discourse is intimately linked to personal-political imaginations of conflict and post-conflict. This book will be of much interest to students of gender politics, conflict studies, critical security studies, European politics and IR in general
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Women -- Political activity.
Feminism.
Women -- Government policy
feminism.
Feminism
Women -- Government policy
Women -- Political activity
Form Electronic book
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