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Book SynopsisA postwar moment is one of promise, but too often of missed opportunities. Will peace bring a democratic, inclusive and equal society? This depends on many factors, this title argues that one of them - crucial but often overlooked - is the importance accorded to transforming gender power relations.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Dubravka Zarkov and Cynthia Cockburn - Dismantling militarism, decommissioning masculinity - 1. Demililtarization - or more of the same? Feminist Questions to Ask in the Postwar Moment Cynthia Enloe - 2. Masculinities, the reduction of violence and the pursuit of peace. R.W.Connell - 3. International Peacekeeping Operations: To Neglect Gender Is to Risk Peacekeeping Failure Dyan Mazurana - Gendered institutions, gendered interventions - 4. Intergovernmental actions in Bosnia-Herzegovina: the cost of ignoring gender Madeleine Rees - 5. Women's organization in the rebuilding of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina Cynthia Cockburn - 6. Conflicts of interest: gender in Oxfam's emergency response Suzanne Williams - 7. Gender and the peace-keeping military: a view from Bosnian women's organizations Cynthia Cockburn and Meliha Hubic - 8. Enduring ambivalence: the Dutch Armed Forces and their women recruits - Jolanda Bosch and Desiree Verweij - soldiering and the nation: masculine relations - 9. The unheroic men of a moral nation: masculinity and nation in modern Dutch history Stefan Dudink - 10. A gentlemen's agreement: Srebrenica in the context of Dutch war history Marc de Leeuw - 11. Srebrenica Trauma: masculinity, military and national self-image in Dutch daily newspapers Dubravka Zarkov
