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Book SynopsisFrom Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men.
Trade Review''Laura Sjoberg has written a valuable, teachable and up-to-the-minute gender-smart book about war. With its mix of gritty case studies and Big Questions, Gender, War and Conflict offers lucky readers the tools to reassess mainstream International Relations' theories and to start fashioning explanations of their own.''
Cynthia Enloe, Clark University
"Laura Sjoberg's book is a feminist international relations primer for the real world. She shows that we can’t understand - let alone end - wars and conflicts if we don’t understand the masculinities and femininities that fuel them. This is the book that everyone - students, academics, and policy-makers - needs to read."
Jacqui True, Monash University
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Gender, War, and Conflict provides a solid analysis about women and gender in conflict and war by highlighting gendered assumptions, experiences and values. An extremely useful study that examines conflict from a feminist perspective, Sjoberg makes an important contribution to the fields of international relations and political science to think in new ways about war."
Terrorism and Political ViolenceTable of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introducing Gender, War, and Conflict
- Chapter 2. Where are the Women?
- Chapter 3. Where are the Men?
- Chapter 4. Why Men and Women Are Not Enough
- Chapter 5. Redefining War, Understanding Gender
- Chapter 6. War(s) as if Gender Mattered
- References
