Women and wars
"Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge u.a.
Polity
2013
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| Online Zugang: | Verlagsangaben Inhaltsverzeichnis Cover |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the gendered phenomena of war. Women have participated in the making, fighting, and concluding of wars throughout history, and their participation is only increasing at the turn of the 21st century. Women experience war in multiple ways: as soldiers, as fighters, as civilians, as caregivers, as sex workers, as sexual slaves, refugees and internally displaced persons, as anti-war activists, as community peace-builders, and more. This book at once provides a glimpse into where women are in war, and gives readers the tools to understand women's (told and untold) war experiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of global social and political life"--P. [4] of cover |
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| Beschreibung: | References and Index S. 250-296 Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | XIX, 296 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9780745642444 978-0-7456-4244-4 0745642454 0-7456-4245-4 9780745642451 978-0-7456-4245-1 0745642446 0-7456-4244-6 |