Global perspectives on war, gender and health : the sociology and anthropology of suffering /

Global perspectives on war, gender and health : the sociology and anthropology of suffering / edited by Hannah Bradby and Gillian Lewando Hundt. - xix, 157 pages ; 24 cm. - Global connections . - Global connections (Ashgate (Firm)). .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Introduction / Feminist antimilitarism: scope, problematic and difficulties in a potential global social movement / Wounds and 'cures' in South Asian gender and memory politics / Sociological perspectives on defining and accounting for violence: towards gendering the conflict in Northern Ireland / Women war survivors in Uganda: resilience and suffering as consequences of war / Concealing violence against women in the Sahrawi refugee camps: the politicisation of victimhood / Scribing dhamal (chaos): moral and ethical dilemmas of working in areas of violence / Identifying the 'resilience factor': an emerging counter narrative to the traditional discourse of 'vulnerability' in 'social suffering' / Vision of a peaceable life / Virginia Olesen -- Hannah Bradby and Gillian Lewando Hundt -- Cynthia Cockburn -- Srila Roy -- Linda McKie and Chris Yuill -- Helen Liebling-Kalifani -- Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh -- Rubina Jasani -- Astier M. Almedom, Evelyn A. Brensinger and Gordon M. Adam -- Parita Mukta.

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Suffering--Social aspects
Violence.
Women--Violence against
Social medicine.
War
Stress, Psychological
Women's Health

HM886 / .G56 2010

303.66

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