Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones

TitleSites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2004
AuthorsGiles, Wenona, and Jennifer Hyndman
Number of Pages361
PublisherUniversity of California Press
CityBerkeley
Abstract

In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. Distinctions between battlefield and home, soldier and civilian, state security and domestic security are breaking down. In this book, a group of international authors doing feminist research brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. In essays on nationalism, the political economy of conflict, and the politics of asylum, they investigate what happens when the body, household, nation, state, and economy become sites at which violence is invoked against people. In particular, these essays move us forward in our understanding of violence against women; how it is perpetrated, survived, and resisted. They explore the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka, the post-Yugoslav states, and Israel and Palestine. They consider "honor killings" in Iraqi Kurdistan, armed conflict in the Sudan, and geographies of violence in Ghana. This volume augments feminist analysis on conflict zones and contributes to transnational coalition-building and feminist organizing.

URLhttp://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780520937055/
Entry by GWC Assistants / Work by GWC Assistants : 
BH

Type of Literature:

Library Location: 
Call Number: 
52057966

Library: