| Description |
1 online resource (x, 361 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
Gender and conflict in a global context / Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman -- The continuum of violence: a gender perspective on war and peace / Cynthia Cockburn -- The sounds of silence: feminist research across time in Guatemala / Cathy Blacklock and Alison Crosby -- Like oil and water, with a match: militarized commerce, armed conflict, and human security in Sudan / Audrey Macklin -- No "safe haven": violence against women in Iraqi Kurdistan / Shahrzad Mojab -- From pillars of Yugoslavism to targets of violence: Interethnic marriages in the former Yugoslavia and thereafter / Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller -- Geographies of violence: women and conflict in Ghana / Valerie Pretson and Madeleine Wong -- Gender, the nationalist imagination, war, and peace / Nira Yuval-Davis -- Refugee camps as conflict zones: the politics of gender / Jennifer Hyndman -- The "purity" of displacement and the reterritorialization of longing: Muslim IDPs in the northwestern Sri Lanka / Malathi de Alvis -- Escaping conflict: Afghan women in transit / Asha Hans -- War, flight, and exile: gendered violence among refugee women from post-Yugoslav states / Maja Korac -- The gendered impact of multilateralism in the post-Yugoslav states: intervention, reconstruction, and globalization / Edith Klein -- New directions for feminist research and politics / Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman |
| Summary |
Augmenting feminist analysis on conflict zones, this volume explores the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism 'honour-killings' in Iraq & Kurdistan, the civil war in Sudan & geographies of violence in Ghana, to investigate what happens when violence is invoked against people |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Violence.
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Political violence.
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Social conflict.
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Women -- Crimes against.
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Sex role.
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Sex differences.
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Feminist theory.
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violence.
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terrorism.
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sex role.
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social conflict.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Feminist theory
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Political violence
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Sex differences
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Sex role
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Social conflict
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Violence
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Women -- Crimes against
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Feminismus
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Frau
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Gewalt
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Politik
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Politischer Konflikt
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Geweld.
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Etnische conflicten.
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Vrouwen.
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Sekserol.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Giles, Wenona Mary, 1949- editor.
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Hyndman, Jennifer, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780520937055 |
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0520937058 |
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159734902X |
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9781597349024 |
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1417545127 |
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9781417545124 |
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