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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giles, Wenona Mary, 1949-

Hyndman, Jennifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Political violence.

Social conflict.

Women--Crimes against.

Women.

Sex role.

Sex differences.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

x, 361 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]

Summary:

In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically as the distinctions between battlefield and home, soldier and civilian, state security and domestic security break down. In this especially timely book, a group of powerful 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.

Contents:

Part I. Feminist approaches to Gender and Conflict

1. Introduction: Gender and Conflict in a Global Context / Wenona Giles, Jennifer Hyndman 3

2. The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace / Cynthia Cockburn 24

3. The Sounds of Silence: Feminist Research across Time in Guatemala / Cathy Blacklock, Alison Crosby 45

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 / Audrey Macklin 75

5. No "Safe Haven": Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan / Shahrzad Mojab 108

6. From Pillars of Yugoslavism to Targets of Violence: Interethnic Marriages in the Former Yugoslavia and Thereafter / Mirjana Morokvasic-Muller 134

7. Geographies of Violence: Women and Conflict in Ghana / Valerie Preston, Madeleine Wong 152

8. Gender, the Nationalist Imagination, War, and Peace / Nira Yuval-Davis 170

Part III. Feminist Analyses of International Organizations and Asylum

9. Refugee Camps as Conflict Zones: The Politics of Gender / Jennifer Hyndman 193

10. The "Purity" of Displacement and the Reterritorialization of Longing: Muslim IDPs in Northwestern Sri Lanka / Malathi de Alwis 213

11. Escaping Conflict: Afghan Women in Transit / Asha Hans 232

12. War, Flight, and Exile: Gendered Violence among Refugee Women from Post-Yugoslav States / Maja Korac 249

13. The Gendered Impact of Multilateralism in the Post-Yugoslav States: Intervention, Reconstruction, and Globalization / Edith Klein 273

Part IV. Feminist Futures: Negotiating Globalization, Security, and Human Displacement

14. New Directions for Feminist Research and Politics / Wenona Giles, Jennifer Hyndman 301.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-345) and index.

ISBN:

0520230728

0520237919

OCLC:

52057966

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