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9781842770672

The Aftermath Women in Post-Conflict Transformation

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    9781842770672

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    1842770675

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-07-05
  • Publisher: Zed Books
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Summary

What happens to women in the aftermath of war and internal conflict? This book asserts that the post-war period is too late for women to transform patriarchal gender relations; the foundations for change must be built during conflict. The Contributors analyze what women endure and what they construct during and after conflict, what obstacles they encounter in their search for autonomy and what bonds of solidarity they create in building peace.

Author Biography

Meredeth Turshen teaches Gender and Development and Third World Social Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University.

Sheila Meintjes is Senior Lecturer in Political Studies, and co-ordinator of the Gender Studies Programme in the Graduate School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of the Witswatersrand, South Africa.

Anu Pillay is a gender and development practitioner and winner of South Africa MaAfrika award in 1996 for social contribution.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Notes on Contributors x
Abbreviations xiv
Part I Overviews of the Themes 1(96)
There Is No Aftermath for Women
3(16)
Sheila Meintjes
Anu Pillay
Meredeth Turshen
Breaking Down the Category `Women'
5(2)
Women's Wartime Gains and Potential for Post-war Transformation
7(1)
The Failure to Consolidate Wartime Gains
8(3)
The Political Economy of Violence against Women
11(2)
Myths about Identity, Problems of Solidarity and Reconciliation
13(2)
Power and Authority in the Aftermath
15(2)
Our Vision of a Transformed Society
17(2)
Women in Conflicts, Their Gains and Their Losses
19(16)
Codou Bop
Social and Political Gains
20(4)
Economic Gains
24(1)
The Loss of Identity
25(1)
Loss of Bodily Integrity
26(1)
Adding to Women's Responsibilities
27(1)
Economic Losses
28(2)
Women's Loss of Leadership
30(2)
Losses in Education
32(1)
Losses in Health
33(1)
Conclusion
33(2)
Violence against Women in the Aftermath
35(11)
Anu Pillay
An Analysis of the Experiences
38(1)
What Underlies Violence against Women?
39(4)
What Do Men Lack that Makes Them Inflict Violence on Women?
43(1)
Emerging Themes
44(1)
Conclusion
44(2)
Problems of Identity, Solidarity and Reconciliation
46(17)
Tina Sideris
Multiple and Shifting Identities - Socially Constructed, Contextually Based
47(6)
Women Crossing Political and Social Divisions
53(4)
Truth Commissions, Tribunals and Healing in the Aftermath
57(3)
Conclusion
60(3)
War and Post-War Shifts in Gender Relations
63(15)
Sheila Meintjes
How War Mobilises Women
65(4)
Military Demobilisation and Political Remobilisation
69(1)
The Long-term Effects of Wartime Changes
70(6)
Conclusion
76(2)
Engendering Relations of State to Society in the Aftermath
78(19)
Meredeth Turshen
Tradition
80(4)
Sex and the State
84(2)
Women in Government
86(1)
Women in Nongovernmental Organisations
87(2)
Women in Peace Negotiations
89(2)
Demobilisation and Demilitarisation
91(2)
Reconciliation and Reparations
93(1)
Conclusion
94(3)
Part II Contemporary Experiences 97(155)
Ambivalent Gains in South Asian Conflicts
99(23)
Rita Manchanda
Kashmir: Domestic `Accidental' Activism
103(4)
Backlash: Veiling Kashmiri Women
107(1)
The Naga People's Struggle: Women of Peace and Militant Women
108(4)
Civil War in Sri Lanka: Ambivalent Empowerment
112(2)
Interrogating Agency: Militant Women Bearing Arms
114(2)
Women in Nepal's People's War: From Invisibility to Visible Protagonist?
116(1)
Women without Men Take on New Roles
117(1)
Women Combatants Engendering the People's War
118(2)
Conclusion
120(2)
Liberated, but Not Free: Women in Post-War Eritrea
122(20)
Sondra Hale
The Context
123(2)
Theoretical Framework and the Policy and Activist Implications
125(2)
What Do Women Fighters Say about Being Civilians?
127(4)
The National Union of Eritrean Women after the War
131(1)
The Organisation and Its Discontents
132(1)
Class and Ethnic Hierarchies
133(1)
Education
134(1)
Politics, Equal Representation and the Constitution
135(1)
Coexisting with the `Traditional Order'
136(1)
What Kind of Organisation is the NUEW?
136(1)
Some Policy Implications
137(1)
Conclusion
138(4)
Rape in War and Peace: Social Context, Gender, Power and Identity
142(17)
Tina Sideris
The Struggle to Combat Gender-based Violence
144(2)
Rape in War and Peace: Same Category, Different Experiences?
146(4)
War: Gender Roles and Gender Identity
150(3)
Sexual Violence in the Aftermath
153(4)
Conclusion
157(2)
Between Love, Anger and Madness: Building Peace in Haiti
159(13)
Myriam Merlet
Historical and Economic Background
160(3)
Violence against Women's Bodies
163(3)
Violent Systems - Economic and Political
166(2)
Women Fighting Back
168(4)
Caring at the Same Time: On Feminist Politics during the NATO Bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Ethnic Cleansing of Albanians in Kosovo, 1999
172(17)
Lepa Mladjenovic
Background: The Region
173(1)
Background: The Author
174(1)
Insisting on Constructionism
175(1)
Rules for Dealing with Trauma
176(2)
Resisting the Role of Victim
178(1)
Work
178(1)
Fear in Serbia and Montenegro
178(1)
Fear in Kosova
179(1)
What We Learned
180(1)
Without Fear in Belgrade
181(1)
The Regime's Construction of Fear
181(2)
Caring at the Same Time
183(6)
Healing And Changing: The Changing Identity of Women in the Aftermath of the Ogoni Crisis in Nigeria
189(21)
Okechukwu Ibeanu
Identities and Social Action
189(3)
Healing and Changing
192(2)
The Ogoni Crisis
194(5)
The Ogoni Crisis and Violence against Women
199(7)
Crisis and the Changing Identity of Ogoni Women
206(3)
Conclusions
209(1)
Ambivalent Maternalisms: Cursing as Public Protest in Sri Lanka
210(15)
Malahi de Alwis
Ritualised Cursing
212(2)
Situating Sorcery within Maternalist Politics
214(5)
Towards a Contingent Reading
219(6)
`We Want Women to Be Given an Equal Chance': Post-Independence Rural Politics in Northern Namibia
225(27)
Heike Becker
War and Violence in Northern Namibia
227(3)
National and Local Gender Politics after Independence
230(2)
National Discourse on Gender and Tradition
232(2)
Gender, Power and Traditional Authority in Precolonial and Colonial Ongandjera
234(3)
After Independence: Women in Traditional Authority Positions
237(1)
Postcolonial Local Discourses on Gender and Tradition
238(2)
Conclusion
240(3)
Bibliography 243(9)
Index 252

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