Sites of violence : gender and conflict zones / edited by Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman. - x, 361 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gender and conflict in a global context / Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman -- The continuum of violence: a gender perspective on war and peace / Cynthia Cockburn -- The sounds of silence: feminist research across time in Guatemala / Cathy Blacklock and Alison Crosby -- Like oil and water, with a match: militarized commerce, armed conflict, and human security in Sudan / Audrey Macklin -- No "safe haven": violence against women in Iraqi Kurdistan / Shahrzad Mojab -- From pillars of Yugoslavism to targets of violence: Interethnic marriages in the former Yugoslavia and thereafter / Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller -- Geographies of violence: women and conflict in Ghana / Valerie Preston and Madeleine Wong -- Gender, the nationalist imagination, war, and peace / Nira Yuval-Davis -- Refugee camps as conflict zones: the politics of gender / Jennifer Hyndman -- The "purity" of displacement and the reterritorialization of longing: Muslim IDPs in northwestern Sri Lanka / Malathi de Alvis -- Escaping conflict: Afghan women in transit / Asha Hans -- War, flight, and exile: gendered violence among refugee women from post-Yugoslav states / Maja Korac -- The gendered impact of multilateralism in the post-Yugoslav states: intervention, reconstruction, and globalization / Edith Klein -- New directions for feminist research and politics / Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman.

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Violence.
Political violence
Social conflict
Women--Crimes against
Sex role.
Sex differences
Feminist theory.

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