Screen LibraryWomen 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...
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Polity Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"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 understand women's (told and untold) war experiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of global social and political life."--Page 4 of cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 296 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-278) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780745642451 (paperback) : 0745642454 (paperback) 0745642446 9780745642444 |
| Index Number: | JZ6405 |
| CLC: | C913.68-05 |
| Call Number: | C913.68-05/W872-1 |
| Contents: |
Women and wars : toward a conceptual framework / Women and the political economy of war / Sexual violence and women's health in war / Women forced to flee : refugees and internally displaced persons / Women and political activism in the face of war and militarization / Women and state military forces / Women, girls, and non-state armed opposition groups / Women and peace processes / Women, girls, and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) / Women "after" wars / |