Gender, War and Politics
Title | Gender, War and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | K. Hagemann |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2010-09-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230283047 |
This volume addresses war, developing political and national identities and the changing gender regimes of Europe and the Americas between 1775 and 1830. Military and civilian experiences of war and revolution, in free and slave societies, both reflected and shaped gender concepts and practices, in relation to class, ethnicity, race and religion.
Gender, War, and Conflict
Title | Gender, War, and Conflict PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Sjoberg |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2014-07-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 074568467X |
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. Women have fought in wars, either as women or covertly dressed as men, throughout the history of warfare, but only recently have they been allowed to join state militaries, insurgent groups, and terrorist organizations in unprecedented numbers. This begs the question - how useful are traditional gendered categories in understanding the dynamics of war and conflict? And why are our stories of gender roles in war typically so narrow? Who benefits from them? In this illuminating book, Laura Sjoberg explores how gender matters in war-making and war-fighting today. Drawing on a rich range of examples from conflicts around the world, she shows that both women and men play many more diverse roles in wars than either media or scholarly accounts convey. Gender, she argues, can be found at every turn in the practice of war; it is crucial to understanding not only ‘what war is’, but equally how it is caused, fought and experienced. With end of chapter questions for discussion and guides to further reading, this book provides the perfect introduction for students keen to understand the multi-faceted role of gender in warfare. Gender, War and Conflict will challenge and change the way we think about war and conflict in the modern world.
Gender, War, and World Order
Title | Gender, War, and World Order PDF eBook |
Author | Richard C. Eichenberg |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2019-06-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 150173816X |
Motivated by the lack of scholarly understanding of the substantial gender difference in attitudes toward the use of military force, Richard C. Eichenberg has mined a massive data set of public opinion surveys to draw new and important conclusions. By analyzing hundreds of such surveys across more than sixty countries, Gender, War, and World Order offers researchers raw data, multiple hypotheses, and three major findings. Eichenberg poses three questions of the data: Are there significant differences in the opinions of men and women on issues of national security? What differences can be discerned across issues, culture, and time? And what are the theoretical and political implications of these attitudinal differences? Within this framework, Gender, War, and World Order compares gender difference on military power, balance of power, alliances, international institutions, the acceptability of war, defense spending, defense/welfare compromises, and torture. Eichenberg concludes that the centrality of military force, violence, and war is the single most important variable affecting gender difference; that the magnitude of gender difference on security issues correlates with the economic development and level of gender equality in a society; and that the country with the most consistent gender polarization across the widest range of issues is the United States.
War and Gender
Title | War and Gender PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua S. Goldstein |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 2003-07-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521001809 |
Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war. Yet contentious debates, and the scattering of scholarship across academic disciplines, have obscured understanding of how gender affects war and vice versa. In this authoritative and lively review of our state of knowledge, Joshua Goldstein assesses the possible explanations for the near-total exclusion of women from combat forces, through history and across cultures. Topics covered include the history of women who did fight and fought well, the complex role of testosterone in men's social behaviours, and the construction of masculinity and femininity in the shadow of war. Goldstein concludes that killing in war does not come naturally for either gender, and that gender norms often shape men, women, and children to the needs of the war system. lllustrated with photographs, drawings, and graphics, and drawing from scholarship spanning six academic disciplines, this book provides a unique study of a fascinating issue.
Gender, War and Politics
Title | Gender, War and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Hagemann |
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Release | 2013 |
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War, Women, and Power
Title | War, Women, and Power PDF eBook |
Author | Marie E. Berry |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2018-03-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1108246893 |
Rwanda and Bosnia both experienced mass violence in the early 1990s. Less than ten years later, Rwandans surprisingly elected the world's highest level of women to parliament. In Bosnia, women launched thousands of community organizations that became spaces for informal political participation. The political mobilization of women in both countries complicates the popular image of women as merely the victims and spoils of war. Through a close examination of these cases, Marie E. Berry unpacks the puzzling relationship between war and women's political mobilization. Drawing from over 260 interviews with women in both countries, she argues that war can reconfigure gendered power relations by precipitating demographic, economic, and cultural shifts. In the aftermath, however, many of the gains women made were set back. This book offers an entirely new view of women and war and includes concrete suggestions for policy makers, development organizations, and activists supporting women's rights.
France Between the Wars
Title | France Between the Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Sian Reynolds |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2002-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134798326 |
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.