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Sites of violence : gender and conflict zones / edited by Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.Description: 1 online resource (x, 361 pages) : mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520937055
  • 0520937058
  • 159734902X
  • 9781597349024
  • 1417545127
  • 9781417545124
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sites of violence.DDC classification:
  • 303.6 22
LOC classification:
  • HM886 .S58 2004eb
Other classification:
  • 71.31
  • CV 6800
  • LB 51000
  • MS 2850
  • MS 3000
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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.

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