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Gender, War, and Militarism

2010
This compelling, interdisciplinary compilation of essays documents the extensive, intersubjective relationships between gender, war, and militarism in 21st-century global politics. Feminist scholars have long contended that war and militarism are fundamentally gendered.
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Interdependent Preferences, Militarism, and Child Gender

International Studies Quarterly, 2009
Selection effects make it difficult to determine whether concern for other people genuinely affects individuals’ policy preferences. Child gender provides a conveniently exogenous means of exploring the issue, especially in contexts such as military policy where girls and boys face different risks; in many countries male children are disproportionately
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The Militarization of Gender and Sexuality in the Iraq War

2008
There is an intimate connection linking gender, sexuality, and war: calls to arms by men to defend women and children, intense camaraderie of men in arms, men’s sustained and vigorous resistance to military service by women and homosexuals, mass rape and sexual servitude in warfare, survival sex by refugees and non-combatants in war zones, sexual ...
Lindsey Feitz, Joane Nagel
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Gender and (Militarized) Secessionist Movements in Africa

Meridians, 2018
AbstractUtilizing interdisciplinary and multimethodological approaches, this essay explores women’s roles in buttressing the political cohesion of secessionist movements in postcolonial Africa. It argues that African women have supported the actions of male-dominated secessionist movements in order to garner their own social and political power.
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Militarization and Gender Violence in South Sudan

Journal of Asian and African Studies, 1999
This article discusses gender violence domestic and beyond in wartime southern Sudan particularly among the Dinka of southwestern Sudan. Furthermore it discusses the efforts of rebel armies fighting against the northern government of Sudan to forge a womans role in the liberation struggle.
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Gender and the privatization of security: neoliberal transformation of the militarized gender order

Critical Studies on Security, 2013
The increasing reliance on private military and security companies (PMSCs) in contemporary military conflict marks a historic shift in the state’s organization of military violence. This transformation has gendered underpinnings and entails gender-specific outcomes, at the same time as it reveals a gendered continuum between public and private military
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Gender, Conflict, and the Militarization of Climate Change Policy

Peace Review, 2015
In their 2007 report, National Security and the Threat of Climate Change, a group of prominent retired U.S.
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Khaki in the Family: Gender Discourses and Militarism in Nigeria

African Studies Review, 1998
The Nigerian military state has used gender politics for its own ends, exploiting opportunities afforded by international concern with women. The high- ly publicized program for rural women enabled the regime of Babangida to gain international credibility.
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Men, Militarism, and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis

Perspectives on Politics, 2005
Men, Militarism, and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis. By Sandra Whitworth. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2004. 225p. $49.95.The rapid expansion in United Nations peacekeeping operations in the 1990s has inevitably led to official and scholarly scrutiny of their efficacy and shortcomings.
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Women and War: Militarism, Bodies, and the Practice of Gender

Sociology Compass, 2008
Abstract Women around the world, in various geographic spaces, social and cultural contexts, as partners, wives, sisters, daughters, mothers, mourners, and victims experience war. Women's experience of war and their participation in it, either as actors or resistors, victims or perpetrators (), cheerleaders or critics, are always ...
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