Victims, perpetrators or actors? : gender, armed conflict and political violence / edited by Caroline O.N. Moser & Fiona C. Clark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moser, Caroline O. N.

Clark, Fiona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political violence.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

Increasing levels of global conflict and political violence provide a critical challenge for development theorists and practitioners. Many countries have endured decades of armed conflict, and others live under the permanent menace of political violence. Throughout, the gendered impacts of armed conflict and political violence are key issues. The gendered causes, costs, and consequences of violent conflicts have been underrepresented, and often misrepresented. This book gives a broader understanding of the complex, changing relations between women and men in societies facing violence and conflict.

Contents:

Part I Contextual Issues on Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence 1

2 The Gendered Dynamics of Armed Conflict and Political Violence / Cynthia Cockburn 13

3 The Gendered Continuum of Violence and Conflict: An Operational Framework / Caroline O.N. Moser 30

Part II The Politics of Victimization: Sexual Abuse and Violence 53

4 The Political Economy of Rape: An Analysis of Systematic Rape and Sexual Abuse of Women during Armed Conflict in Africa / Meredeth Turshen 55

5 The Body of the Other Man: Sexual Violence and the Construction of Masculinity, Sexuality and Ethnicity in the Croatian Media / Dubravka Zarkov 69

Part III Gender, Power and Agency 83

6 Rethinking Women's Struggles in Israel-Palestine and in the North of Ireland / Simona Sharoni 85

7 Women and Communal Conflict: New Challenges for the Women's Movement in India / Urvashi Butalia 99

Part IV Women as Actors in Armed Conflict and Political Violence 115

8 El Salvador: War and Untold Stories

Women Guerrillas / Ana Cristina Ibanez 117

Part V 'Doing' and 'Being': Questions of Identity in Displacement 131

9 The Nostalgic Future: Terror, Displacement and Gender in Colombia / Donny Meertens 133

Part VI Agency and Identity in Building Sustainable Peace 149

10 Social Organizations: From Victims to Actors in Peace Building / Isabel Coral Cordero 151

11 The Challenge to Inequality: Women, Discrimination and Decision-making in Northern Ireland / Marie Mulholland 164

12 Gender and Social Capital in Contexts of Political Violence: Community Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala / Caroline O. N. Moser, Cathy McIlwaine 178

Part VII Gender and Voice in Truth and Reconciliation 201

13 Locked into Loss and Silence: Testimonies of Gender and Violence at the South Africa Truth Commission / Antjie Krog 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index.

ISBN:

1856498972

1856498980

OCLC:

45460934