Beyond compassion : gender and humanitarian action / Dolores Martín-Moruno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martín-Moruno, Dolores, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in histories of the emotions and the senses 2632-1068

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in charitable work.

Humanitarian aid workers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (72 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This is a call to engage with the histories of emotions and the senses, as well as with the new history of experiences, in order to write a gendered history of humanitarian action. This Element challenges essentialist interpretations according to which women have undertaken humanitarian action because of their allegedly compassionate nature. Instead, it shows how humanitarianism has allowed women to participate in international politics by claiming their rights as citizens, struggling against class inequalities, racial segregation and sexual discrimination in the light of disparate feelings such as resentment, hope, trust, shame and indignation. Ultimately, these case studies are understood to represent historically created moral economies of care: distinctive ways of feeling, performing and knowing humanitarianism which have evolved in relation to shifting emotional values associated with what it means to be human. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009417075 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access