ISBN:
1282992554
,
9780230103719
,
9781282992559
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xix, 262 p)
,
22 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Women, War, and Violence : Personal Perspectives and Global Activism
DDC:
303.6082
Keywords:
Women Violence against
;
War victims
;
Victims of violent crimes
;
Women and war
;
Frau
;
Krieg
;
Gewalt
;
Nachkriegszeit
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Inspired by a conference held at Northeastern University on the topic of Women, War, and Violence, editors Robin M. Chandler, Lihua Wang, and Linda K. Fuller bring together research and real-life stories from twenty-one international contributors who document gender involvement from victims to valiant in wartime and activism.
Abstract:
Focusing on peace-building, reform and reconciliation strategies, media representations, and redefinitions of feminism and hegemony in a global twenty-first century, this book brings together research and real-life stories from 21 international contributors who document gender involvement from victims to valiant in wartime and activism
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction: Life Blossoms in the Killing Fields ; Part I: Understanding Gender-Based Violence, Rebuilding Personal Security for Girls and Women, and Peace-Building; 1 Not Making Excuses: Functions of Rape as a Tool in Ethno-Nationalist Wars; 2 Speaking with Postwar Liberia: Gender-Based Violence Interventions for Girls and Women; 3 Sexual Violence among Refugees and Asylum Seekers Who Come to the United States; 4 Victims, Villains, and Victors: Mediated Wartime Images of Women
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II: Organizational Reconciliation, Policy Reform, and Postwar Effects on Women5 Challenging Hegemonic Understandings of Human Rights Violations in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: The Need for a New Narrative; 6 A Gendered Approach for Policy in United Nations Peacekeeping Missions; 7 Aftermath of U.S. Invasions: The Anguish of Women in Afghanistan and Iraq; Part III: Reframing Twenty-First Century Feminism with Global Ethnic Struggles
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Women and Peace in a Divided Society: Peace-Building Potentials of Feminist Struggles and Reform Processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina9 Peace Is the Name of an Unborn Child in Turkey; 10 Reconstructing Women in Postconflict Rwanda; Part IV: Confronting the Patriarchy of War as Women Combatants and Noncombatants; 11 Relationships of War: Mothers, Soldiers, Knowledge; 12 Female Participation in the Iraqi Insurgency: Insights into Nationalist and Religious Warfare; 13 Agency and Militarization in the Heartland: Noncombatant American Women
Description / Table of Contents:
14 Horror to Hope, Tragedy to Triumph: The Women of RwandaIndex
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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