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Le genre entre guerre et paix
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 328

Le genre entre guerre et paix

L'histoire des guerres est une histoire qui parle d'abord et essentiellement des hommes. L'histoire diplomatique est à l'avenant. La science politique n'a que depuis peu pris en considération la dimension sexuée de la population. Cet ouvrage est donc particulièrement novateur. Nadine Puechguirbal s'intéresse en effet à un domaine peu exploré, particulièrement dans le champ universitaire français, celui des transformations des rapports sociaux de sexes dans les conflits armés et de leur recomposition lors du retour à la paix et dans la phase de reconstruction du pays. [...] La richesse du travail tient, notamment, à ce que l'auteure a mobilisé pour son analyse un vaste champ de recherches clans différentes disciplines (histoire, anthropologie, sociologie, science politique, droit, relations internationales). Elle a en outre accumulé sur les trois pays qui servent à son analyse une somme impressionnante d'informations et de références souvent ignorées en France. [...] Comme tout travail pionnier celui-ci, on le voit, ouvre de nombreuses perspectives de recherches. " Françoise Gaspard

Seriously!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Seriously!

In Seriously!, Cynthia Enloe, author of the groundbreaking analysis of globalization, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, addresses two deeply gendered and contested questions: Who is taken seriously? And who gets to bestow the label “serious” on others? With a strategy of taking both women and gender dynamics seriously, Cynthia Enloe investigates the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair and the banking crash of 2008, the subsequent recession, as well as UN peacekeeping and the ongoing Egyptian revolution. Each case study highlights the gritty experiences of women in diverse circumstances—in banks, on the job market, in war zones, and in revolutions. The results of taking women seriously are fresh insights into what fuels the cultures of hyper–risk taking, of sexual harassment, and the denial of women’s post-war security.

Fixing Gender
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Fixing Gender

Through an ethnographic study of gender training practices in peacekeeping institutions, Aiko Holvikivi examines how gender is conceptualised, taught, and learned in these settings, and with what political effects. She finds that this training constitutes a deeply ambivalent practice from the point of view of intersectional feminist political commitments. Drawing on queer and postcolonial feminist thought, Fixing Gender examines the contradictory politics of gender training, arguing that we need to develop the analytical tools to grapple with paradoxical practices that are simultaneously good and bad feminist politics.

Gender Matters in Global Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 442

Gender Matters in Global Politics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-01-21
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Gender Matters in Global Politics is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates studying feminism & international relations, gender and global politics and similar courses. It provides students with an accessible but in-depth account of the most significant theories, methodologies, debates and issues. This textbook is written by an international line-up of established and emerging scholars from a range of theoretical perspectives, providing students with provocative and cutting-edge insights into the study and practices of (how) gender matters in global politics. Key features and benefits of the book: Introduces students to the wide variety of feminist and gender theory and explain...

Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2017

Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-02-23
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  • Publisher: SAGE

This work includes 1000 entries covering the spectrum of defining women in the contemporary world.

Narrating War and Peace in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Narrating War and Peace in Africa

Narrating War and Peace in Africa interrogates conventional representations of Africa and African culture -- mainly in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- with an emphasis on portrayals of conflict and peace. While Africa has experienced political and social turbulence throughout its history, more recent conflicts seem to reinforce the myth of barbarism across the continent: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The essays in this volume address reductive and stereotypical assumptions of postcolonial violence as "tribal" in nature, and offer instead various perspectives -- across disciplinary boundaries --...

Conflict-Related Violence Against Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Conflict-Related Violence Against Women

  • Categories: Law

This book expands the current 'weapon of war' discourse on sexual violence, highlighting a wider spectrum of conflict-related violence against women.

Rape in Wartime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Rape in Wartime

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-10-26
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  • Publisher: Springer

This collection offers a new reflection on rape in war time through 15 case studies, ranging from Greece to Nigeria. It questions the specificity of rape as a universal transgression, its place in memories of war, its legacies, including children born from rape, and the challenge of writing about intimate violence as both a scientist and a human.

Women and Wars
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

Women and Wars

Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the (gendered) phenomena of war. Women have participated in the making, fighting, and concluding of wars throughout history, and their participation is only increasing at the turn of the 21st century. Women experience war in multiple ways: as soldiers, as fighters, as civilians, as caregivers, as sex workers, as sexual slaves, refugees and internally displaced persons, as anti-war activists, as community peace-builders, and more. This book at once provides a glimpse into where women are in war, and gives readers the tools to understood women’s (told and untold) war experiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of global social and political life.

Intent to Deceive
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Intent to Deceive

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-02-25
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

A shocking exposé of genocide denial It is twenty-five years since the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi of Rwanda when in the course of three terrible months more than 1 million people were murdered. In the intervening years a pernicious campaign has been waged by the perpetrators to deny this crime, with attempts to falsify history and blame the victims for their fate. Facts are reversed, fake news promulgated, and phoney science given credence. Intent to Deceive tells the story of this campaign of genocide denial from its origins with those who planned the massacres. With unprecedented access to government archives including in Rwanda Linda Melvern explains how, from the moment the killers seiz...