Gender, War and Conflict / Edition 1

by Laura Sjoberg

Overview

This accessible introductory text explores how gender matters in war-making and war-fighting today. Drawing on a rich range of examples, Sjoberg shows that both women and men play many diverse roles in wars. Gender, she argues, is crucial to understanding not only 'what war is', but equally how it is caused, fought and experienced.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745660028
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/23/2014
Series:	Gender and Global Politics Series
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Laura Sjoberg is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introducing Gender, War, and Conflict
• Chapter 2. Where are the Women?
• Chapter 3. Where are the Men?
• Chapter 4. Why Men and Women Are Not Enough
• Chapter 5. Redefining War, Understanding Gender
• Chapter 6. War(s) as if Gender Mattered
• References

Editorial Reviews

''Laura Sjoberg has written a valuable, teachable and up-to-the-minute gender-smart book about war. With its mix of gritty case studies and Big Questions, Gender, War and Conflict offers lucky readers the tools to reassess mainstream International Relations' theories and to start fashioning explanations of their own.''
Cynthia Enloe, Clark University

"Laura Sjoberg's book is a feminist international relations primer for the real world. She shows that we can’t understand - let alone end - wars and conflicts if we don’t understand the masculinities and femininities that fuel them.  This is the book that everyone - students, academics, and policy-makers - needs to read."
Jacqui True, Monash University

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