Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives

Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives

Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives

Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814760345
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2013
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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 Acronyms
Part One
1. Toward a Gender Perspective on Human Security
Aili Mari Tripp
2. What Does Postconflict Security Mean for Women?
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
3. Gendering Insecurities, Informalization, and “War Economies”
V. Spike Peterson
Part 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, Uganda
Elizabeth Stites
7. From German Bus Stop to Academy Award Nomination
Katherine Pratt Ewing
Part Three
8. Feminist Collaboration with the State in Response to Sexual Violence
Kristin Bumiller
9. The Vulnerable Protecting the Vulnerable
Laura J. Heideman
10. Violence against Women, Human Security, and Human Rights of Women and Girls
Ruth Rubio-Marín and Dorothy Estrada-Tanck
11. Integrating Gender into Human Security
Narda Henríquez and Christina Ewig
Part Four: Conclusion
12. The Discursive Politics of Gendering Human Security
Myra Marx Ferree
About the Contributors
Index
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