States of Conflict: Gender, Violence and Resistance

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Susie M. Jacobs, Ruth Jacobsen, Jen Marchbank
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000 - Political Science - 246 pages

Highlighting gendered violence across layers of social and political organization, from the military to the sexual, this book explores the connections between international security, intra-state conflict and 'domestic' violence. International in scope, it makes the links between the local and the global and between the public and the private, in its discussion of gendered violence.

Claiming that it is not enough to simply 'add' women to international relations theory, the contributors to this book brilliantly demonstrate how much more fruitful an in-depth analysis of the different layers of gendered violence can be. This book will be necessary reading for students and academics of women's studies, international relations and political theory.

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Contents

States of Conflict
1
A Sceptical Feminist
27
Power the missing concept 31 People power
33
Ecological insecurity 37 Framing the debate
39
Sexual Violence Sexual Politics
45
Some Thoughts on a Gendered
66
Engendering the State in Refugee Womens Claims for Asylum
87
CitizenSoldier? Class Race Gender Sexuality and the
105
citizens
119
Shifting Relationships and Competing Discourses in PostMao
125
Converting
144
The Myth of Innocence
163
Women and Hindu nationalism 171 Conclusions176
176
Voices from South Africa
199
Possibilities
217
Index
238

Gender and citizenship 110 The militarised woman patriot 112
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