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Zusatztext Women in War is exemplary scholarship, full of the type of novel observations that come only from extensive time in the field and years of poring over data. It will undoubtedly set the agenda for some time to come, for research into women's participation in resistance movements and its consequences. Informationen zum Autor Jocelyn Viterna is Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Klappentext Waging war has historically been an almost exclusively male endeavor, yet over the past several decades women have joined insurgent armies in significant and surprising numbers. Why do women become guerrilla insurgents? What experiences do they have in guerrilla armies? And what are the long-term repercussions of this participation for the women themselves and the societies in which they live? "Jocelyn Viterna develops an 'identity-based' theory of political mobilization to explain why and how some women, but not others, joined the clandestine camps of El Salvador's armed revolutionary movement during the 1980s. Her account wisely encompasses broad political and economic factors while emphasizing the importance of activist strategies and the collective identities of the women targeted for recruitment. All future research on social movements, political violence, and gender will have to grapple with Viterna's provocative theory."-Jeff Goodwin, New York University "Women in War is an in-depth look at how women were mobilized, served, and transformed by their roles as combatants and non-combatants by the FMLN - the guerrillas - in the Salvadoran civil war. Having myself served for a year in the midst of that conflict as a physician, the gender dynamics, insights, and experiences that Women in War present are a valuable contribution to understanding the post-conflict reality of these women in today's El Salvador."-Charlie Clements, M.D., M.P.H, author of Witness to War "In this stellar book, Jocelyn Viterna brings much needed sophistication to the literature on women and war. She shows that the tired debate on political participation in war as empowerment or victimization should be superseded by analysis of the specific conditions under which women exert agency and those under which they are victimized. This book should be read not only by scholars of civil war and insurgency, but also by policy-makers working toward post-conflict reconciliation and development."-Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University Zusammenfassung Women in War provides an in-depth analysis of women's experiences in the FMLN guerrilla army in El Salvador, and examines the consequences of those experiences for their post war lives. It also develops a new model for investigating and understanding micro-level mobilization processes that has applications to many social movement settings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter 1: Women in War Chapter 2: Setting the Stage Chapter 3: Micro-Level Processes of Mobilization Chapter 4: Recruiting a Guerrilla Army Chapter 5: Joining the Guerrillas Chapter 6: Ranking the File Chapter 7: Regulating Romance and Reproduction Chapter 8: Demobilization, Remobilization, and Retrenchment Chapter 9: Gender, Violence, and the Micro-Level Processes of Mobilization Appendices Notes Bibliography Index ...
