Making gender, making war : violence, military and peacekeeping practices / / edited by Annica Kronsell and Erika Svedberg

• Pubblicazione: New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.0082
• Soggetto topico: Sex role; Masculinity; Women and the military; Women and peace; Peace-building
• Altri autori: KronsellAnnica SvedbergErika
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-245) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Making Gender, Making War Violence, Military and Peacekeeping Practices; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgment; 1. Introduction: Making Gender, Making War; THEME I Conceptualizing Gender, Violence, Militarism; 2. Gender Relations as Causal in Militarization and War: A Feminist Standpoint; 3. Men/Masculinities: War/Militarism-Searching (for) the Obvious Connections?; THEME II Making Gender and (Re)Making the Nation; 4. What Does a Bath Towel Have to Do with Security Policy? Gender Trouble in the Swedish Armed Forces ; 5. Friendly War-Fighters and Invisible Women: Perceptions of Gender and Masculinities in the Norwegian Armed Forces on Missions Abroad6. The 'Rotten Report' and the Reproduction of Masculinity, Nation and Security in Turkey; 7. Men Making Peace in the Name of Just War: The Case of Finland; THEME III Institutional Practices and Traveling Concepts; 8. Analyzing UN and NATO Responses to Sexual Misconduct in Peacekeeping Operations; 9. A Gendered Protection for the 'Victims' of War: Mainstreaming Gender in Refugee Protection ; 10. Experiences, Refl ections and Learning: Feminist Organizations, Security Discourse and SCR 1325THEME IV Gender Subjectivity in the Organization of Violence; 11. Nordic Women and International Crisis Management: A Politics of Hope?; 12. Women in Militant Movements: (Un)Comfortable Silences and Discursive Strategies; 13. In the Business of (In)Security? Mavericks, Mercenaries and Masculinities in the Private Security Company; 14. Reenvisioning Masculinities in the Context of Confl ict Transformation: The Gender Politics of Demilitarizing Northern Ireland Society; Conclusions ; 15. Is Feminism Being Co-Opted by Militarism?Contributors; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Making Gender, Making War is a unique interdisciplinary edited collection which explores the social construction of gender, war-making and peacekeeping. It highlights the institutions and processes involved in the making of gender in terms of both men and women, masculinity and femininity. The ""war question for feminism"" marks a thematic red thread throughout; it is a call to students and scholars of feminism to take seriously and engage with the task of analyzing war. Contributors analyze how war-making is intertwined with the making of gender in a diversity of empirical case st
• Titolo autorizzato: Making gender, making war
• ISBN: 1-136-63213-1; 1-280-66089-9; 9786613637826; 0-203-80320-5; 1-136-63214-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789955003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality ; ; no. 6.