Samenvatting 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.
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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: 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.
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Toon meer Toon minder. Recensie s Book of the month on Intercross Women and Wars fills the vacuum left by the 'women as victims' approach that characterized the early 's, with a diverse array of options for understanding the roles and perspectives that women have during conflict, including: Gender and Development To my mind, the very best academic work makes its reader sit up and take notice, either because the ideas are unfamiliar or because familiar ideas have been articulated in a new and engaging way.
The individual chapters in this volume do both. Gender and Development A valuable collection for everyone interested in learning some of the ways feminist IR analysis is currently formulating, studying, and presenting its war questions. LSE Review of Books A comprehensive and highly readable collection, which is thematically and conceptually coherent.
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Resilience Too often, women remain invisible in times of war. With contributions from scholars, activists, and policymakers, Women and Wars uncovers stories about women's multiple roles as warriors, war victims, and peacebuilders.
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An important text for anyone concerned with the tragic consequences of today's wars. And a reminder that wars are always gendered.
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Ann Tickner, School of International Relations, University of Southern California With its diverse, thoughtful, and theoretically rich perspectives on gender, conflict and violence this book stands out from the crowd as an exceptional and interdisciplinary contribution to the field. This will be a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners and should be treated as a 'go to' resource giving an exciting perspective on the state of the field in gender and war.
Megan Mackenzie, University of Sydney The book provides a comprehensive picture of the current scholarship on women and war as well as detailed and disturbing accounts of the lives of women during and after many recent wars. It would be an ideal text for a variety of courses on international and human security. Get my own profile Cited by View all All Since Citations h-index 18 15 iindex 21 Journal of women in culture and society 12 4 , , International Feminist Journal of Politics 6 1 , , Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28 4 , , Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 43 5 , , Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction, , Feminist methodologies for international relations, , Gendered Perspectives on Writing and Language, , International Feminist Journal of Politics 1 3 , , Articles 1—20 Show more.
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