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Sites of violence : gender and conflict zones / edited by Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman

Giles, Wenona Mary ; Hyndman, Jennifer

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004

Online-Ressource (x, 361 p) : maps ; 24 cm

Englisch

CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART I: FEMINIST APPROACHES TO GENDER AND CONFLICT; 1. Introduction: Gender and Conflict in a Global Context; 2. The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace; 3. The Sounds of Silence: Feminist Research across Time in Guatemala; PART II: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN WAR AND POSTWAR TIMES; 4. Like Oil and Water, with a Match: Militarized Commerce, Armed Conflict, and Human Security in Sudan; 5. No "Safe Haven": Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan

6. From Pillars of Yugoslavism to Targets of Violence: Interethnic Marriages in the Former Yugoslavia and Thereafter7. Geographies of Violence: Women and Conflict in Ghana; 8. Gender, the Nationalist Imagination, War, and Peace; PART III: FEMINIST ANALYSES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ASYLUM; 9. Refugee Camps as Conflict Zones: The Politics of Gender; 10. The "Purity" of Displacement and the Reterritorialization of Longing: Muslim IDPs in Northwestern Sri Lanka; 11. Escaping Conflict: Afghan Women in Transit

12. War, Flight, and Exile: Gendered Violence among Refugee Women from Post-Yugoslav States13. The Gendered Impact of Multilateralism in the Post-Yugoslav States: Intervention, Reconstruction, and Globalization; PART IV: FEMINIST FUTURES: NEGOTIATING GLOBALIZATION, SECURITY, AND HUMAN DISPLACEMENT; 14. New Directions for Feminist Research and Politics; REFERENCES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Sites of Violence : Gender and Conflict Zones

0-520-23791-9 ; 0-520-23072-8

978-0-520-23791-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

HM886

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LOC-SH: Violence ; Women -- Crimes against ; Sex role ; Political violence ; Social conflict ; Sex differences ; Feminist theory

Political violence ; Electronic books

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