Women and Wars - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745642454 ISBN 13 : 9780745642451

Editeur : Polity Press, 2012

Synopsis

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 understood women's (told and untold) war experiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of global social and political life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carol Cohn is the author of Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures, published by Wiley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745642454
• ISBN 13: 9780745642451
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Cohn Carol
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• Personne responsable: non disponible