Gendered perspectives on conflict and violence

The chapters in this two-part volume deal with a range of gender-based violence issues that are making news headlines daily. In Part A the contributors address the ways in which wartime rape is treated in international courts, why and how the gender language used at the United Nations matters, how asylum-seekers fleeing gendered violence are treated, how the press and the courts frame rape and other acts of violence, perceptions and responses of and to disabled and LGBTQ people who are victims of gendered violence, the ways we respond to the perpetrators of violence, and the relationship of military service to nationalism. The focus of the volume is global in the sense that international law and tribunals are discussed and norms and attitudes from global samples are compared. A variety of qualitative and quantitative methods including interviews, textual analysis, autoethnography, and secondary analysis of large sample surveys are employed. Each of the chapters has theoretical as well as policy or social implications.

List of Contributors. Information for Authors. Gendered perspectives on conflict and violence: An introduction. Victimized again? intersectionality and injustice in disabled women's lives after hate crime and rape. Feminist reflections on disability hate crime. Intimate partner violence among self-identified queer victims: Towards an intersectional awareness in scholarship and organizing surrounding gender-based violence. In letting the perpetrator speak: Sexual violence and classroom politics. Invisible lives, silenced violence: Transphobic gender violence in global perspective. Belonging to the jewish nation: Life stories of israeli female combat soldiers. Private War, Private Suffering, and the Normalizing Power of Law. Significance of wartime rape. Out of southeast europe: Gender-based violence, public transitions, and the search for home. Layers of violence: A gender perspective on media reporting on infant rape in south africa. Gender equality, attitudes to gender equality, and conflict. About the Authors. Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence: Part A. Advances In Gender Research. Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence: Part A. Copyright page.

A global discourse regarding gender and violence is emerging as feminists, media experts, and social scientists consider the place of gender in episodic acts and chronic conditions of violence. The chapters in this two-part volume offer understandings of the relationship between violence and gender from the global to the domestic level. In Part B, authors trace the history of feminist antiviolence efforts, theorize the reproduction of symbolic gender violence, and show how violence might be re-conceptualized in comparative and intersectional perspective. They show how historical, cultural and religious elements contribute to or complicate violence, how development efforts can backfire, and how actions and techniques applied by governments and NGOs can reduce or exacerbate violence. Substantive topics addressed are as varied as masculinity in U.S. prisons, child abuse in Israel, neo-Nazism in Germany and religious nationalism in India. Much of the research was done on the ground through participant observation, interaction in affected communities and interviews with change agents directly involved. Each of the chapters has theoretical as well as policy or social implications.

About the Authors. More gendered perspectives on conflict and violence: An introduction. List of Contributors. Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence: Part B. Routine violence: Intersectionality at the interstices. Well-intended measures: Conceptualizing gender as a social structure in post-conflict policy development. Resisting gendered religious nationalism: The case of religious-based violence in Gujarat, India. Is religiosity related to reduced abuse in childhood? A community study of ultra-Orthodox and Secular Jewish women. Treating sexual violence as a "business": Reflections on national and international responses to sexual and gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The use of participatory gender analysis for violence reduction in (post-) conflict settings: A study of a community education project in northern Uganda. Not all Nazis are men: Women's underestimated potential for violence in German Neo-Nazism. Continuation of the past or novel phenomenon?. "That candy bar ain't free": Managing performances of masculinity in prison. Before prevention: The trajectory and tensions of feminist antiviolence. "Our" honor and "their" honor: The case of honor killings in Turkey. Symbolic violence: Reshaping post-patriarchal discourses on gender. Information for Authors. Advances In Gender Research. Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence. Copyright page.