1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783388103321

Titolo

Sites of violence [[electronic resource] ] : gender and conflict zones / / edited by Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004

ISBN

0-520-93705-8

1-282-35967-3

1-59734-902-X

9786612359675

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Classificazione

CV 6800

Altri autori (Persone)

GilesWenona Mary <1949->

HyndmanJennifer

Disciplina

303.6

Soggetti

Violence

Political violence

Social conflict

Women - Crimes against

Sex role

Sex differences

Feminist theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Gender and Conflict in a Global Context -- 2. The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace -- 3. The Sounds of Silence: Feminist Research across Time in Guatemala -- 4. Like Oil and Water, with a Match: Militarized Commerce, Armed Conflict, and Human Security in Sudan -- 5. No "Safe Haven": Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan -- 6. From Pillars of Yugoslavism to Targets of Violence: Interethnic Marriages in the Former Yugoslavia and Thereafter -- 7. Geographies of Violence: Women and Conflict in Ghana -- 8. Gender, the Nationalist Imagination, War, and Peace -- 9. Refugee Camps as Conflict Zones: The Politics of Gender -- 10. The "Purity" of Displacement and the Reterritorialization of Longing: Muslim IDPs in



Northwestern Sri Lanka -- 11. Escaping Conflict: Afghan Women in Transit -- 12. War, Flight, and Exile: Gendered Violence among Refugee Women from Post-Yugoslav States -- 13. The Gendered Impact of Multilateralism in the Post-Yugoslav States: Intervention, Reconstruction, and Globalization -- 14. New Directions for Feminist Research and Politics -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. Distinctions between battlefield and home, soldier and civilian, state security and domestic security are breaking down. In this especially timely book, a powerful group of international authors doing feminist research brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. In essays on nationalism, the political economy of conflict, and the politics of asylum, they investigate what happens when the body, household, nation, state, and economy become sites at which violence is invoked against people. In particular, these hard-hitting essays move us forward in our understanding of violence against women-how it is perpetrated, survived, and resisted. They explore the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka, the post-Yugoslav states, and Israel and Palestine. They consider "honor killings" in Iraqi Kurdistan, armed conflict in the Sudan, and geographies of violence in Ghana. This volume augments feminist analysis on conflict zones and contributes to transnational coalition-building and feminist organizing.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786031403321

Autore

Henderson Julian <1953->

Titolo

Ancient glass / / Julian Henderson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-23434-4

1-139-61007-4

1-139-61193-3

1-139-62123-8

1-283-94306-9

1-139-62495-4

1-139-60852-5

1-139-61565-3

1-139-02188-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 433 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

SOC003000

Disciplina

748.2009/01

Soggetti

Glass manufacture - History

Glassware, Ancient

Glassware, Classical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Glass as a material: a technological background in faience, pottery and metal? -- Ways to flux silica: ashes and minerals -- Silica, lime and glass colourants -- Glass chemical compositions -- Early glass in the Middle East and Europe: innovation, archaeology and the contexts for production and use -- Early glass in the Middle East and Europe: scientific analysis -- Hellenistic to Roman: a change from small- to large-scale glass production? -- Late Hellenistic and early Roman glass: Scientific studies -- Islamic glass: technological continuity and innovation -- Islamic glass: scientific research -- The provenance of ancient glass -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of archaeological glass in which technological, historical, geological, chemical and cultural aspects of the study of ancient glass are combined. The book examines



why and how this unique material was invented some 4,500 years ago and considers the ritual, social, economic and political contexts of its development. It also provides an in-depth consideration of glass as a material, the raw materials used to make it, and its wide range of chemical compositions in both the East and the West from its invention to the seventeenth century AD. Julian Henderson focuses on three contrasting archaeological and scientific case studies: Late Bronze Age glass, late Hellenistic-early Roman glass, and Islamic glass in the Middle East. He considers in detail the provenances of ancient glass using scientific techniques and discusses a range of vessels and their uses in ancient societies.