Gender and international security : feminist perspectives / / edited by Laura Sjoberg

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 284 pages)
• Disciplina: 327.17082; 355.03300082
• Soggetto topico: Security, International; Feminist theory; Women and war; Women and peace
• Classificazione: 89.75
• Altri autori: SjobergLaura <1979->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Gendered lenses envision security; 1 Theses on the military, security, war and women; 2 War, sense, and security; 3 Gendering the state: Performativity and protection in international security; Part II Gendered security theories; 4 Gendering the cult of the offensive; 5 Gendering power transition theory; 6 The genders of environmental security; Part III Gendered security actors; 7 Loyalist women paramilitaries in Northern Ireland: Beginning a feminist conversation about conflict resolution ; 8 Securitization and de-securitization: Female soldiers and the reconstruction of women in post-conflict Sierra Leone9 Women, militancy, and security: The South Asian conundrum; Part IV Gendered security problematiques; 10 Feminist theory and arms control; 11 Beyond border security: Feminist approaches to human traffcking; 12 When are states hypermasculine?; 13 Peace building through a gender lens and the challenges of implementation in Rwanda and Côte d'Ivoire; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book defines the relationship between gender and international security, analyzing and critiquing international security theory and practice from a gendered perspective.Gender issues have an important place in the international security landscape, but have been neglected both in the theory and practice of international security. The passage and implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (on Security Council operations), the integration of gender concerns into peacekeeping, the management of refugees, post-conflict disarmament and reintegration and protection fo
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender and international security
• ISBN: 1-135-24026-4; 1-282-37722-1; 9786612377228; 0-203-86693-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778579103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge critical security studies series.