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Innocent women and children : gender, norms and the protection of civilians /
This study examines the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians. Although the codified immunity norm affords protection to all civilians, Carpenter demonstrates how in practice, belligerents, advocates and humanitarian players interpret civilian i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Gender in a global/local world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study examines the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians. Although the codified immunity norm affords protection to all civilians, Carpenter demonstrates how in practice, belligerents, advocates and humanitarian players interpret civilian immunity so as to leave adult civilian men and older boys at grave risk in conflict zones. She argues that in order to understand the way in which laws of war are implemented and promoted in international society, we must understand how gender ideas affect and ultimately undermine the principle of civilian immunity. The case studies contained in this ground breaking study demonstrate the importance of assumptions about gender relations in shaping international politics, and develop a framework for incorporating an attention to gender into the often gender-blind scholarship on international norms. As such this book will be of interest both to international relations theorists and to human rights scholars, students and activists. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 217 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-210) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780754680918 0754680916 1317116593 9781317116592 1317116585 9781317116585 1281097071 9781281097071 9786611097073 6611097074 |