Women and Wars Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures

by Cohn , Carol

• ISBN13: 9780745642451
• ISBN10: 0745642454
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-12-03
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the (gendered) phenomena of war. Women have participated in the making, fighting, and concluding of wars throughout history, and their participation is only increasing at the turn of the 21st century. Women experience war in multiple ways: as soldiers, as fighters, as civilians, as caregivers, as sex workers, as sexual slaves, refugees and internally displaced persons, as anti-war activists, as community peace-builders, and more. This book at once provides a glimpse into where women are in war, and gives readers the tools to understood womenrs"s (told and untold) war experiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of global social and political life.

Author Biography

Carol Cohn is the author of Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

List of Text Boxes and Tables

List of Acronyms

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Preface: Gender Analysis Isn’t Easy

Women and Wars: An Introduction

Women and the Political Economy of War

Sexual Violence and Women’s Health in War

Women Forced to Flee: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

Women and Political Activism in the Face of War and Militarization

Women and State Military Forces

Women, Girls and Non-State Armed Opposition Groups

Women and Peace Processes

Women, Girls and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR)

Women "After" Wars

Notes

References

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