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Sites of violence : gender and conflict zones /

Augmenting feminist analysis on conflict zones, this volume explores the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism 'honour-killings' in Iraq & Kurdistan, the civil war in Sudan & geographies of violence in Ghana, to investigate what happens when violence is invoked against people.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Giles, Wenona Mary, 1949- (Editor ), Hyndman, Jennifer (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gender and conflict in a global context / Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman
  • The continuum of violence: a gender perspective on war and peace / Cynthia Cockburn
  • The sounds of silence: feminist research across time in Guatemala / Cathy Blacklock and Alison Crosby
  • Like oil and water, with a match: militarized commerce, armed conflict, and human security in Sudan / Audrey Macklin
  • No "safe haven": violence against women in Iraqi Kurdistan / Shahrzad Mojab
  • From pillars of Yugoslavism to targets of violence: Interethnic marriages in the former Yugoslavia and thereafter / Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller
  • Geographies of violence: women and conflict in Ghana / Valerie Pretson and Madeleine Wong
  • Gender, the nationalist imagination, war, and peace / Nira Yuval-Davis
  • Refugee camps as conflict zones: the politics of gender / Jennifer Hyndman
  • The "purity" of displacement and the reterritorialization of longing: Muslim IDPs in the northwestern Sri Lanka / Malathi de Alvis
  • Escaping conflict: Afghan women in transit / Asha Hans
  • War, flight, and exile: gendered violence among refugee women from post-Yugoslav states / Maja Korac
  • The gendered impact of multilateralism in the post-Yugoslav states: intervention, reconstruction, and globalization / Edith Klein
  • New directions for feminist research and politics / Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman.