Gender, war, and militarism
Subtitle: feminist perspectives
By: Laura Sjoberg and Sandra Via, editors ; foreword by Cynthia Enloe
Series: Praeger security international
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780313391439; 9780313391446
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gendered identities, ideologies, and practices in the context of war and militarism / V. Spike Peterson; title: From "soft" power to "hard" power : the gendered militarization of the European Union / Stephanie Anderson; title: Gender, militarism, and globalization : soldiers for hire and hegemonic masculinity / Sandra Via; title: Boots and bedsheets : constructing the military support system in a time of war / Denise Horn; title: Confronting militarization : intersections of gender(ed) violence, militarization and resistance in the Pacific / Ronni Alexander; title: Fighting in the feminine : the dilemmas of combat women in Israel / Tami Jacoby; title: Post-war trajectories for girls associated with fighting forces in Sierra Leone / Susan Shepler; title: Rape as a marker and eraser of difference : Darfur and the Nuba mountains (Sudan) / Sondra Hale; title: The everyday/everynightness of rape : is it different in war? / Liz Kelly; title: Sexual violence during war : towards an understanding of variation / Elisabeth Jean Wood; title: Explaining sexual violence in conflict situations / Megan Gerecke; title: Links between women, peace, and disarmament : snapshots from the WILPF / Catia C. Confortini; title: When is war over? : women's stories of healing and rebuilding after the war in El Salvador / Gwyn Kirk; title: Using gender to consider post-conflict forgiveness / Sigal Ben-Porath; title: Feminism, nationalism, and globalism : representations of Bosnian "war babies" in the global print media, 1991-2006 / R. Charli Carpenter; title: Gendering the empire's soldiers : gender ideologies, the United States military, and the "war on terror" / Laura Sjoberg; title: Fireman fetishes and drag king dreams : queer responses to September 11 / Deborah Cohler.