Sites of violence
Subtitle: gender and conflict zones
By: edited by Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman.
Contributors: Giles, Wenona Mary, 1949-; Hyndman, Jennifer.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Violence; Political violence; Social conflict; Women -- Crimes against; Sex role; Sex differences; Feminist theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender and conflict in a global context / Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman; title: The continuum of violence: a gender perspective on war and peace / Cynthia Cockburn; title: The sounds of silence: feminist research across time in Guatemala / Cathy Blacklock and Alison Crosby; title: Like oil and water, with a match: militarized commerce, armed conflict, and human security in Sudan / Audrey Macklin; title: No "safe haven": violence against women in Iraqi Kurdistan / Shahrzad Mojab; title: From pillars of Yugoslavism to targets of violence: Interethnic marriages in the former Yugoslavia and thereafter / Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller; title: Geographies of violence: women and conflict in Ghana / Valerie Pretson and Madeleine Wong; title: Gender, the nationalist imagination, war, and peace / Nira Yuval-Davis; title: Refugee camps as conflict zones: the politics of gender / Jennifer Hyndman; title: The "purity" of displacement and the reterritorialization of longing: Muslim IDPs in the northwestern Sri Lanka / Malathi de Alvis; title: Escaping conflict: Afghan women in transit / Asha Hans; title: War, flight, and exile: gendered violence among refugee women from post-Yugoslav states / Maja Korac; title: The gendered impact of multilateralism in the post-Yugoslav states: intervention, reconstruction, and globalization / Edith Klein; title: New directions for feminist research and politics / Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman.