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UNINA9910456711703321 |
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Titolo |
Women and war in the Middle East [[electronic resource] ] : transnational perspectives / / edited by Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt |
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London ; ; New York, : Zed Books, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-84813-804-0 |
1-282-45351-3 |
9786612453519 |
1-84813-187-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (295 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Al-AliNadje Sadig |
PrattNicola Christine |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women and war - Middle East |
Women - Services for - Middle East - International cooperation |
Women - Iraq |
Women - Middle East - Social conditions |
Women - Palestine |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgements; Introduction | Women and War in the Middle East: Transnational Perspectives; Transnational feminisms; Gendering violence, conflict and war; Diaspora mobilization; Gendering post-conflict; Women and gender in formalreconstruction/peace-building processes; Gender mainstreaming in peace and security; Structure of the book; Notes; References; PART I | Gendering the Neoliberal Imperial Project; 1 | Gendering Informal Economies in Iraq; The analytics of a critical project; Informal activities and international developments; Informal economies in Iraq |
Post-invasion informal economiesConclusion; Notes; References; 2 | The United States, the Iraqi Women's Diaspora and Women's 'Empowerment' in Iraq; Iraqi women's diaspora activism and the invasion; The US administration and gendered war talk; Diaspora women and the 'new Iraq'; Funding for 'women's empowerment'; |
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Transnational women's rights activism; Communal politics versus women's 'empowerment' under occupation; Political bargaining, women's rights and the constitution; Women's activism and shifting gender identities in Iraq; Conclusion; Notes; References |
Gender mainstreamingEU and UN gender mainstreaming initiatives; Gender mainstreaming and women's and feminist organizing; Gender mainstreaming in conflict situations; The Palestinian case; Challenges for gender mainstreaming and feminist organizing in MENA; Notes; References; 5 | 'Here, it's not about conflict resolution - we can only resist': Palestinian Women's Activism in Conflict Resolution and Non-violent Resistance; Historical overview of Palestinian women's peace activism; Organizational forms of women's peace-building; Aims of women's peace-building |
Strategies of women's peace-buildingConclusion; Notes; References; PART III | Gender, Citizenship and Post-conflict Reconstruction; 6 | Fragmented Citizenship: Communalism, Ethnicity and Gender in Iraq; Transition in the shadow of violence and conflict; The citizenship bargain: negotiating communalism, ethnicity and gender; Conclusion; Notes; References; 7 | Gendered Palestinian Citizenship: Women, Legal Pluralism and Post-conflict Aid; Connective practices, women's memberships and structural marginalization; Gender conventions and post-conflict; Gender, aid and non-liberal processes |
Drafting citizenship in conflict |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Women and War in the Middle East provides a critical examination of the relationship between gender and transnationalism in the context of war, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East. |
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