Sites of Violence Gender and Conflict Zones

Name: Sites of Violence Gender and Conflict Zones
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ISBN: 9780520237919

ISBN-10: 0520237919

ISBN-13: 9780520237919

Edition: 2004

Authors: Wenona Giles, Jennifer Hyndman

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In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. Distinctions between battlefield and home, soldier and civilian, state security and domestic security are breaking down. In this especially timely book, a powerful group of international authors doing feminist research brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. In essays on nationalism, the political economy of conflict, and the politics of asylum, they investigate what happens when the body, household, nation, state, and economy become sites at which violence is invoked against people. In particular, these hard-hitting essays move…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 373
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Wenona Giles is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Atkinson Faculty at York University.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Feminist approaches to Gender and Conflict



Introduction: Gender and Conflict in a Global Context




The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace




The Sounds of Silence: Feminist Research across Time in Guatemala




Violence Against Women in War and Postwar Times



Like Oil and Water, with a Match: Militarized Commerce, Armed Conflict, and Human Security in Sudan




No "Safe Haven": Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan




From Pillars of Yugoslavism to Targets of Violence: Interethnic Marriages in the Former Yugoslavia and Thereafter




Geographies of Violence: Women and Conflict in Ghana




Gender, the Nationalist Imagination, War, and Peace




Feminist Analyses of International Organizations and Asylum



Refugee Camps as Conflict Zones: The Politics of Gender




The "Purity" of Displacement and the Reterritorialization of Longing: Muslim IDPs in Northwestern Sri Lanka




Escaping Conflict: Afghan Women in Transit




War, Flight, and Exile: Gendered Violence among Refugee Women from Post-Yugoslav States




The Gendered Impact of Multilateralism in the Post-Yugoslav States: Intervention, Reconstruction, and Globalization




Feminist Futures: Negotiating Globalization, Security, and Human Displacement



New Directions for Feminist Research and Politics



References


List of Contributors


Index