Cohn Women and Wars

Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-6066-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarlyaccounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are oftennowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as ifmen were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, andnegotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though,those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at everyturn in the (gendered) phenomena of war. Women have participated inthe making, fighting, and concluding of wars throughout history,and their participation is only increasing at the turn of the 21stcentury. Women experience war in multiple ways: as soldiers, asfighters, as civilians, as caregivers, as sex workers, as sexualslaves, refugees and internally displaced persons, as anti-waractivists, as community peace-builders, and more. This book at onceprovides a glimpse into where women are in war, and gives readersthe tools to understood women's (told and untold) warexperiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of globalsocial and political life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohn, Carol

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Boxes and Tables vi
Abbreviations viii
Contributors xiii
Foreword by Cynthia Enloe xv
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Women and Wars: Toward a Conceptual Framework 1
Carol Cohn
2 Women and the Political Economy of War 36
Angela Raven-Roberts
3 Sexual Violence and Women's Health in War 54
Pamela DeLargy
4 Women Forced to Flee: Refugees and Internally DisplacedPersons 80
Wenona Giles
5 Women and Political Activism in the Face of War andMilitarization 102
Carol Cohn and Ruth Jacobson
6 Women and State Military Forces 124
Jennifer G. Mathers
7 Women, Girls, and Non-State Armed Opposition Groups 146
Dyan Mazurana
8 Women and Peace Processes 169
Malathi de Alwis, Julie Mertus, and Tazreena Sajjad
9 Women, Girls, and Disarmament, Demobilization andReintegration (DDR) 194
Dyan Mazurana and Linda Eckerbom Cole
10 Women "After" Wars 215
Ruth Jacobson
Notes 242
References 250
Index 279