Gender, War and Conflict

From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men.

List of contents

* Acknowledgments
* Chapter 1. Introducing Gender, War, and Conflict
* Chapter 2. Where are the Women?
* Chapter 3. Where are the Men?
* Chapter 4. Why Men and Women Are Not Enough
* Chapter 5. Redefining War, Understanding Gender
* Chapter 6. War(s) as if Gender Mattered
* References

About the author

Laura Sjoberg is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida.

Summary

From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men.

Report

''Laura Sjoberg has written a valuable, teachable and up-to-the-minute gender-smart book about war. With its mix of gritty case studies and Big Questions, Gender, War and Conflict offers lucky readers the tools to reassess mainstream International Relations' theories and to start fashioning explanations of their own.''
Cynthia Enloe, Clark University
"Laura Sjoberg's book is a feminist international relations primer for the real world. She shows that we can't understand - let alone end - wars and conflicts if we don't understand the masculinities and femininities that fuel them. This is the book that everyone - students, academics, and policy-makers - needs to read."
Jacqui True, Monash University

Product details

• Authors: L Sjoberg, Laura Sjoberg
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2014
• EAN: 9780745660011
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-6001-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Hot Spots in Global Politics; Hot Spots in Global Politics Series; Gender and Global Politics; Gender and Global Politics; Hot Spots in Global Politics Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Gender Studies, Gewalt und Missbrauch in der Gesellschaft, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society