Format:
Online-Ressource (viii, 285 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1848131852
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1848131879
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1848131860
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9781848131859
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9781848131873
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9781848131866
Content:
Women and War in the Middle East provides a critical examination of the relationship between gender and transnationalism in the context of war, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Acknowledgements; Introduction | Women and War in the Middle East: Transnational Perspectives; Transnational feminisms; Gendering violence, conflict and war; Diaspora mobilization; Gendering post-conflict; Women and gender in formalreconstruction/peace-building processes; Gender mainstreaming in peace and security; Structure of the book; Notes; References; PART I | Gendering the Neoliberal Imperial Project; 1 | Gendering Informal Economies in Iraq; The analytics of a critical project; Informal activities and international developments; Informal economies in Iraq
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Post-invasion informal economiesConclusion; Notes; References; 2 | The United States, the Iraqi Women's Diaspora and Women's 'Empowerment' in Iraq; Iraqi women's diaspora activism and the invasion; The US administration and gendered war talk; Diaspora women and the 'new Iraq'; Funding for 'women's empowerment'; Transnational women's rights activism; Communal politics versus women's 'empowerment' under occupation; Political bargaining, women's rights and the constitution; Women's activism and shifting gender identities in Iraq; Conclusion; Notes; References
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3 | 'Post-war Reconstruction', Imperialism and Kurdish Women's NGOsIraq: a state born in war; The (re)production of destruction: the case of the 1991 war; Disentangling contradictions in women's NGOs: the context of the 2003 war and occupation; Kurdish women's NGOs under US occupation; Concluding remarks: women's NGOs, anti‑feminism and colonial feminism; Note; References; PART II | Revisiting Transnational Women's Activism in the Context of Conflict, Post-conflict Reconstruction and Peace-building; 4 | Gender Mainstreaming and Feminist Organizing in the Middle East and North Africa
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Gender mainstreamingEU and UN gender mainstreaming initiatives; Gender mainstreaming and women's and feminist organizing; Gender mainstreaming in conflict situations; The Palestinian case; Challenges for gender mainstreaming and feminist organizing in MENA; Notes; References; 5 | 'Here, it's not about conflict resolution - we can only resist': Palestinian Women's Activism in Conflict Resolution and Non-violent Resistance; Historical overview of Palestinian women's peace activism; Organizational forms of women's peace-building; Aims of women's peace-building
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Strategies of women's peace-buildingConclusion; Notes; References; PART III | Gender, Citizenship and Post-conflict Reconstruction; 6 | Fragmented Citizenship: Communalism, Ethnicity and Gender in Iraq; Transition in the shadow of violence and conflict; The citizenship bargain: negotiating communalism, ethnicity and gender; Conclusion; Notes; References; 7 | Gendered Palestinian Citizenship: Women, Legal Pluralism and Post-conflict Aid; Connective practices, women's memberships and structural marginalization; Gender conventions and post-conflict; Gender, aid and non-liberal processes
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Drafting citizenship in conflict
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848131866
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Women and War in the Middle East : Transnational Perspectives
Language:
English
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