Highlighting gendered violence across layers of social and political organization, from the military to the sexual, this book explores the connections between international security, intra-state conflict and 'domestic' violence. International in scope, it makes the links between the local and the global and between the public and the private, in its discussion of gendered violence.
Claiming that it is not enough to simply 'add' women to international relations theory, the contributors to this book brilliantly demonstrate how much more fruitful an in-depth analysis of the different layers of gendered violence can be. This book will be necessary reading for students and academics of women's studies, international relations and political theory.
1. Introduction - Susie Jacobs, Ruth Jacobson and Jennifer Marchbank
Part I: The Global Context: Security and Conflict
2. Re-packaging Notions of Security: A Sceptical Feminist Responds - Lee-Anne Broadhead
3. Wars Against Women: Metaphor or Reality? Gendered Violence and the Militarised State - Liz Kelly
4. Transforming Conflict: Some Thoughts on a Gendered Understanding of Conflict Processes - Judy el-Bushra
5. Engendering the State in Refugee Women's Claims for Asylum - Heaven Crawley
6. Women, the State and War - Francine D'Amico
Part II: Resistance and Autonomy
7. Shifting Relationships and Competing Discourses in Post-Mao China: The All-China Women's Federation and the People's Republic - Jude Howell
8. Violence Against Women in Brazil: International Influences on Local Policy - Fiona Macaulay
9. Women's Strategies of Resistance to Intimate Violence in Calcutta - Purna Sen
10. Women and Peace in Northern Ireland: A Complicated Relationship - Ruth Jacobson
11. Gender, Community and Nation: The Myth of Innocence - Parviter Mukta.
Conclusion - Susie Jacobs
