Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives by Myra Mar

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Takes a critical look at notions of human security and violence through a feminist lens.

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The nature of human security is changing globally: interstate conflict and even intrastate conflict may be diminishing worldwide, yet threats to individuals and communities persist. Large-scale violence by formal and informal armed forces intersects with interpersonal and domestic forms of violence in mutually reinforcing ways. Gender, Violence, and Human Security takes a critical look at notions of human security and violence through a feminist lens, drawing on both theoretical perspectives and empirical examinations through case studies from a variety of contexts around the globe.This fascinating volume goes beyond existing feminist international relations engagements with security studies to identify not only limitations of the human security approach, but also possible synergies between feminist and human security approaches. Noted scholars Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, and Christina Ewig, along with their distinguished group of contributors, analyze specific case studies from around the globe, ranging from post-conflict security in Croatia to the relationship between state policy and gender-based crime in the United States. Shifting the focus of the term "human security" from its defensive emphasis to a more proactive notion of peace, the book ultimately calls for addressing the structural issues that give rise to violence. A hard-hitting critique of the ways in which global inequalities are often overlooked by human security theorists, Gender, Violence, and Human Security presents a much-needed intervention into the study of power relations throughout the world.

Author Biography

Aili Mari Tripp is Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women's Studies and Director of the Center for Research on Gender and Women at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Myra Marx Ferree is the Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology and Director of the European Union Center of Excellence at the University of Wisconsin. Christina Ewig is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Table of Contents

List of AcronymsPart One 1. Toward a Gender Perspective on Human SecurityAili Mari Tripp 2. What Does Postconflict Security Mean for Women?Fionnuala Ni Aolain 3. Gendering Insecurities, Informalization, and "War Economies"V. Spike PetersonPart Two 4. Securitizing Sex, Bodies, and Borders: The Resonance of Human Security Frames in Thailand's "War against Human Trafficking"Edith Kinney 5. Work and Love in the Gendered U.S. Insecurity State Lisa D. Brush 6. A Struggle for Rites: Masculinity, Violence, and Livelihoods in Karamoja, UgandaElizabeth Stites 7. From German Bus Stop to Academy Award NominationKatherine Pratt EwingPart Three 8. Feminist Collaboration with the State in Response to Sexual ViolenceKristin Bumiller 9. The Vulnerable Protecting the VulnerableLaura J. Heideman 10. Violence against Women, Human Security, and Human Rights of Women and GirlsRuth Rubio-Marin and Dorothy Estrada-Tanck 11. Integrating Gender into Human SecurityNarda Henriquez and Christina Ewig Part Four: Conclusion 12. The Discursive Politics of Gendering Human SecurityMyra Marx FerreeAbout the Contributors Index

Review

"As the authors of Gender, Violence, and Human Security demonstrate so convincingly, we cannot fully understand the meaning of human security without applying an intersectional gendered lens. This important book should be read by all those concerned with enlarging the theoretical frameworks, as well as the policy prescriptions, for human security."-J. Ann Tickner,author of Gender and International Relations"This book is a powerful argument that the field of security can and should be gendered, using a strikingly wide range of illuminating examples. It successfully challenges both security to address gender and feminist analysis to address security." -Sylvia Walby,author of New Agendas for Women

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Takes a critical look at notions of human security and violence through a feminist lens.

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The nature of human security is changing globally: interstate conflict and even intrastate conflict may be diminishing worldwide, yet threats to individuals and communities persist. Large-scale violence by formal and informal armed forces intersects with interpersonal and domestic forms of violence in mutually reinforcing ways. Gender, Violence, and Human Security takes a critical look at notions of human security and violence through a feminist lens, drawing on both theoretical perspectives and empirical examinations through case studies from a variety of contexts around the globe. This fascinating volume goes beyond existing feminist international relations engagements with security studies to identify not only limitations of the human security approach, but also possible synergies between feminist and human security approaches. Noted scholars Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, and Christina Ewig, along with their distinguished group of contributors, analyze specific case studies from around the globe, ranging from post-conflict security in Croatia to the relationship between state policy and gender-based crime in the United States. Shifting the focus of the term "human security" from its defensive emphasis to a more proactive notion of peace, the book ultimately calls for addressing the structural issues that give rise to violence. A hard-hitting critique of the ways in which global inequalities are often overlooked by human security theorists, Gender, Violence, and Human Security presents a much-needed intervention into the study of power relations throughout the world.

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"This book is a powerful argument that the field of security can and should begendered, using a strikingly wide range of illuminating examples. It successfullychallenges both security to address gender and feminist analysis to addresssecurity."-Sylvia Walby,author of New Agendas for Women

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Takes a critical look at notions of human security and violence through a feminist lens.

Details ISBN0814760341 Short Title GENDER VIOLENCE & HUMAN SECURI Publisher New York University Press Language English ISBN-10 0814760341 ISBN-13 9780814760345 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint New York University Press Subtitle Critical Feminist Perspectives Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Edited by Christina Ewig Affiliation University of Wisconsin, Madison DEWEY 305.42 Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-11-15 Illustrations black & white illustrations Author Christina Ewig UK Release Date 2013-11-15 NZ Release Date 2013-11-15 US Release Date 2013-11-15 Pages 336 Alternative 9780814770207 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly AU Release Date 2013-11-14 We've got this

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