Jennifer Hyndman & Wenona Giles 
Sites of Violence [PDF ebook] 
Gender and Conflict Zones

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.

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Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments


PART ONE: FEMINIST APPROACHES TO GENDER AND CONFLICT

1. Introduction: Gender and Conflict in a Global Context

Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman


2. The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace

Cynthia Cockburn


3. The Sounds of Silence: Feminist Research across Time in Guatemala

Cathy Blacklock and Alison Crosby


PART TWO: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN WAR AND POSTWAR TIMES

4. Like Oil and Water, with a Match: Militarized Commerce, Armed Conflict, and Human Security in Sudan

Audrey Macklin


5. No ‘Safe Haven’: Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan

Shahrzad Mojab


6. From Pillars of Yugoslavism to Targets of Violence: Interethnic Marriages in the Former Yugoslavia and Thereafter

Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller


7. Geographies of Violence: Women and Conflict in Ghana

Valerie Preston and Madeleine Wong


8. Gender, the Nationalist Imagination, War, and Peace

Nira Yuval-Davis


PART THREE: FEMINIST ANALYSES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ASYLUM

9. Refugee Camps as Conflict Zones: The Politics of Gender

Jennifer Hyndman


10. The ‘Purity’ of Displacement and the Reterritorialization of Longing: Muslim IDPs in Northwestern Sri Lanka

Malathi de Alwis


11. Escaping Conflict: Afghan Women in Transit

Asha Hans


12. War, Flight, and Exile:Gendered Violence among Refugee Women from Post-Yugoslav States

Maja Korac


13. The Gender Relations of Multilateralism in the Post-Yugoslav States: Intervention, Reconstruction, and Globalization

Edith Klein


PART FOUR: FEMINIST FUTURES: NEGOTIATING GLOBALIZATION, SECURITY, AND HUMAN DISPLACEMENT

14. New Directions for Feminist Research and Politics

Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman


References

List of Contributors

Index

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Wenona Giles is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto. She is co-editor of Feminists Under Fire: Exchanges Across War Zones (2003). Jennifer Hyndman is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and the author of Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism (2000).