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Handbook on Gender and War

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Author(s): Simona Sharoni, Julia Welland, Linda Steiner, Jennifer Pedersen
Series: International Handbooks on Gender
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2016

Language: English

Front matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: revisiting the relationship between gender and war: reflections on theory, research, activism and policy
PART I GENDER AND THE CONDUCT OF WAR
Part I Introduction: Gender and the conductof war
1. Gender and militaries: the importance of military masculinities for the conduct of state sanctioned violence
2. On the imagination of ‘Woman’ as killer in war
3. The twilight war: gender and espionage, Britain, 1900–1950
4. Cat food and clients: gendering the politics of protection in the Private Militarized Securitized Company
5. Not all soldiers: hegemonic masculinity and the problem of soldiers’ agency in an age of technological intervention
6. Gender and ‘population-centric’ counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
7. Gender and terrorism
PART II GENDER AND THE IMPACT OF WAR
Part II Introduction: Gender and the impact of war
8. Gender-based violence in war
9. Risk and social transformation: gender and forced migration
10. Girls as weapons of war
11. Gender and the economic impacts of war
12. The war comes home: the toll of war and the shifting burden of care
13. The sexual economy of war: implications for the integration of women into the US armed forces
14. From woman warrior to innocent child: telling gendered news stories of women terrorists
15. Gender under fire in war reporting
PART III GENDER AND OPPOSITION TO WAR
Part III Introduction: Gender and opposition to war
16. CODEPINK and pink soldiers: reading feminist antimilitarism anew
17. Iraq Veterans Against the War: ‘that whole gender paradigm’
18. Gender and resistance to political violence in Palestine and Israel
19. In the rain and in the sun: women’s peace activism in Liberia
20. Gender and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1960s
21. Gendered dimensions of anti-war protest in Japan
PART IV GENDER AND THE AFTERMATH OF WAR
Part IV Introduction: Gender and the aftermath of war
22. Gender and peacebuilding
23. Gender and post-conflict security
24. Gender and transitional justice
25. Gender and demilitarization in Liberia
26. Girl soldiers and the complexities of demobilization and reintegration
27. The United Nations’ Women, Peace and Security agenda
Index