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:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 us forward in our understanding of violence against women-how it is perpetrated, survived, and resisted. They explore the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka, the post-Yugoslav states, and Israel and Palestine. They consider "honor killings" in Iraqi Kurdistan, armed conflict in the Sudan, and geographies of violence in Ghana. This volume augments feminist analysis on conflict zones and contributes to transnational coalition-building and feminist organizing.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

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

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 Thereafter

7. Geographies of Violence: Women and Conflict in Ghana

8. Gender, the Nationalist Imagination, War, and Peace

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 States

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

14. New Directions for Feminist Research and Politics

References

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612359675

9780520937055

0520937058

9781282359673

1282359673

9781597349024

159734902X

OCLC:

70755731