Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745642446 ISBN 13: 9780745642444

Publisher: Polity, 2012

Synopsis

This textbook introduces readers to the complex relationships between women, gender, and war. From homefront to battlefront, it locates women in war and explores the multifaceted genderings of conflict. It at once tells stories about women and war and supplies the analytic tools crucial to understanding the gender issues around them.

About this title

Review:

Book of the month on Intercross

"Women and Wars fills the vacuum left by the 'women as victims' approach that characterized the early 2000's, with a diverse array of options for understanding the roles and perspectives that women have during conflict, including: soldiers, civilians, caregivers, sex workers, refugees and internally displaced persons, anti-war activists, and community peace-builders"
PRISM

"If I were to deliver a course or module focused on the topic of 'women and wars', this is without a doubt the textbook I would choose."
Gender and Development

"To my mind, the very best academic work makes its reader sit up and take notice, either because the ideas are unfamiliar or because familiar ideas have been articulated in a new and engaging way. The individual chapters in this volume do both."
Gender and Development

"A valuable collection for everyone interested in learning some of the ways feminist (IR) analysis is currently formulating, studying, and presenting its war questions."
LSE Review of Books

"A comprehensive and highly readable collection, which is thematically and conceptually coherent."
Resilience

"Too often, women remain invisible in times of war. With contributions from scholars, activists, and policymakers, Women and Wars uncovers stories about womens multiple roles as warriors, war victims, and peacebuilders. An important text for anyone concerned with the tragic consequences of todays wars. And a reminder that wars are always gendered."
J. Ann Tickner, School of International Relations, University of Southern California

"With its diverse, thoughtful, and theoretically rich perspectives on gender, conflict and violence this book stands out from the crowd as an exceptional and interdisciplinary contribution to the field. This will be a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners and should be treated as a 'go to' resource giving an exciting perspective on the state of the field in gender and war."
Megan Mackenzie, University of Sydney

"The book provides a comprehensive picture of the current scholarship on women and war as well as detailed and disturbing accounts of the lives of women during and after many recent wars. It would be an ideal text for a variety of courses on international and human security."
Craig Murphy, Wellesley College

"The chapters are rich both in their content and their diversity. Women and Wars stands out as an important volume in an increasingly busy field of scholarship. I will return to the text many times for future teaching and will undoubtedly be assigning chapters to my students."
Dr Catherine ORourke, University of Ulster

About the Author:

Carol Cohn is the author of Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures, published by Wiley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0745642446
• ISBN 13: 9780745642444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Cohn Carol