States of Conflict
Gender, Violence and Resistance
Published on 1. December 1999
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-85649-655-1 (ISBN)
Description
Highlighting gendered violence across layers of social and political organization, from the military to the sexual, this book explores the connections between international security, intra-state conflict and domestic violence. International in scope, it makes the links between the local and the global and between the public and the private. Three key themes are explored: the risks women take in resisting violence; women's agency in sustaining conflict; and the public/private divide in the context of gendered violence. The contributors challenge the assumption that women tend towards pacifism and offer a nuanced, detailed analysis of the different layers of gendered violence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85649-655-1 (9781856496551)
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Content
Part 1 The global context - security and conflict: re-packaging notions of security - a sceptical feminist responds, Lee-Anne Broadhead; wars against women - sexual violence, sexual politics and the militarised state, Liz Kelly; transforming conflict - a gendered understanding of conflict processes, Judy el-Bushra; engendering the state in refugee women's claims for asylum, Heaven Crawley; women, the state and war, Francine D'Amico. Part 2 Resistance and responsibility: shifting relationships and competing discourses in post-Mao China - the all-China women's federation and the People's Republic, Jude Howell; violence against women in Brazil and Chile - international influences on local policy, Fiona Macaulay; women's strategies of resistance to intimate violence in Calcutta, Purna Sen; women and peace in Northern Ireland - a complicated relationship, Ruth Jacobson; gender, community and nation - the myth of innocence, Parviter Mukta.