Women, war, and violence : personal perspectives and global activism /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. |
| Description: | xix, 262 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8151342 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Life Blossoms in the Killing Fields
- Part I. Understanding Gender-Based Violence, Rebuilding Personal Security for Girls and Women, and Peace-Building
- 1. Not Making Excuses: Functions of Rape as a Tool in Ethno-Nationalist Wars
- 2. Speaking with Postwar Liberia: Gender-Based Violence Interventions for Girls and Women
- 3. Sexual Violence among Refugees and Asylum Seekers Who Come to the United States
- 4. Victims, Villains, and Victors: Mediated Wartime Images of Women
- Part II. Organizational Reconciliation, Policy Reform, and Postwar Effects on Women
- 5. Challenging Hegemonic Understandings of Human Rights Violations in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: The Need for a New Narrative
- 6. A Gendered Approach for Policy in United Nations Peacekeeping Missions
- 7. Aftermath of U.S. Invasions: The Anguish of Women in Afghanistan and Iraq
- Part III. Reframing Twenty-First Century Feminism with Global Ethnic Struggles
- 8. Women and Peace in a Divided Society: Peace-Building Potentials of Feminist Struggles and Reform Processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 9. Peace Is the Name of an Unborn Child in Turkey
- 10. Reconstructing Women in Postconflict Rwanda
- Part IV. Confronting the Patriarchy of War as Women Combatants and Noncombatants
- 11. Relationships of War: Mothers, Soldiers, Knowledge
- 12. Female Participation in the Iraqi Insurgency: Insights into Nationalist and Religious Warfare
- 13. Agency and Militarization in the Heartland: Noncombatant American Women
- 14. Horror to Hope, Tragedy to Triumph: The Women of Rwanda
- Index