Women and wars / edited by Carol Cohn.
Cohn, Carol.
2013
JZ6405.W66 W645 2013 (Mapit)
Available at General Collection

Items

Details

Title Women and wars / edited by Carol Cohn.
Spine Title Women & wars
ISBN 9780745642451 paperback
0745642454 paperback
9780745642444
0745642446
Publication Details Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2013.
Language English
Description xix, 296 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number JZ6405.W66 W645 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.66082
Summary "Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the gendered phenomena of war. Women have participated in the making, fighting, and concluding of wars throughout history, and their participation is only increasing at the turn of the 21st century. Women experience war in multiple ways: as soldiers, as fighters, as civilians, as caregivers, as sex workers, as sexual slaves, refugees and internally displaced persons, as anti-war activists, as community peace-builders, and more. This book at once provides a glimpse into where women are in war, and gives readers the tools to understand women's (told and untold) war experiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of global social and political life."--Page 4 of cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-278) and index.
Added Author Cohn, Carol.
Linked Resources Table of contents only
Publisher description
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
All Resources
Foreword / Cynthia Enloe
Women and wars : toward a conceptual framework / Carol Cohn
Women and the political economy of war / Angela Raven-Roberts
Sexual violence and women's health in war / Pamela DeLargy
Women forced to flee : refugees and internally displaced persons / Wenona Giles
Women and political activism in the face of war and militarization / Carol Cohn, Ruth Jacobson
Women and state military forces / Jennifer G. Mathers
Women, girls, and non-state armed opposition groups / Dyan Mazurana
Women and peace processes / Malathi de Alwis, Julie Mertus, Tazreena Sajjad
Women, girls, and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) / Dyan Mazurana, Linda Eckerbom Cole
Women "after" wars / Ruth Jacobson.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export