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Women, war, and violence : personal perspectives and global activism / edited by Robin M. Chandler, Lihua Wang, and Linda K. Fuller

Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
xix, 262 pages ; 22 cm
Additional Creators
Chandler, Robin M., Wang, Lihua, and Fuller, Linda K.

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Contents
Cynthia Enloe and Lihua Wang and Robin M. Chandler -- 1. Not Making Excuses: Functions of Rape as a Tool in Ethno-Nationalist Wars -- Natalja Zabeida -- 2. Speaking with Postwar Liberia: Gender-Based Violence Interventions for Girls and Women -- Robin M. Chandler -- 3. Sexual Violence among Refugees and Asylum Seekers Who Come to the United States -- Linda Piwowarczyk -- 4. Victims, Villains, and Victors: Mediated Wartime Images of Women -- Linda K. Fuller -- 5. Challenging Hegemonic Understandings of Human Rights Violations in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: The Need for a New Narrative -- Kiri Gurd and Rashida Manjoo -- 6. A Gendered Approach for Policy in United Nations Peacekeeping Missions -- Colleen Keaney-Mischel -- 7. Aftermath of U.S. Invasions: The Anguish of Women in Afghanistan and Iraq -- Hayat Imam -- 8. Women and Peace in a Divided Society: Peace-Building Potentials of Feminist Struggles and Reform Processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Anne Jenichen -- 9. Peace Is the Name of an Unborn Child in Turkey -- Simten Cosar -- 10. Reconstructing Women in Postconflict Rwanda -- Laura Sjoberg -- 11. Relationships of War: Mothers, Soldiers, Knowledge -- Steven L. Gardiner and Angie Reed Garner -- 12. Female Participation in the Iraqi Insurgency: Insights into Nationalist and Religious Warfare -- Karla J. Cunningham -- 13. Agency and Militarization in the Heartland: Noncombatant American Women -- Michelle M. Gardner-Morkert -- 14. Horror to Hope, Tragedy to Triumph: The Women of Rwanda -- Tadia Rice.
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ISBN
9780230103719 (alk. paper)
0230103715 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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