Gendering global conflict : toward a feminist theory of war
- Laura Sjoberg.
- New York : Columbia University Press, 
- Physical description
- xi, 461 pages ; 23 cm
Law Library (Crown)
|JZ6405 .W66 S56 2013||Unknown|
- Sjoberg, Laura, 1979- author.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The (genderless) study of war in international relations
- Gender lenses look at war(s)
- Anarchy, structure, gender, and war(s)
- Relations international and war(s)
- Gender, states, and war(s)
- People, choices, and war(s)
- Gendered strategy
- Gendered tactics
- Living gendered war(s)
- Conclusion: (A) feminist theory/ies of war(s).
- Publisher's Summary
- Laura Sjoberg positions gender and gender subordination as key factors in the making and fighting of global conflict. Through the lens ofgender, she examines the meaning, causes, practices, and experiences of war, building a more inclusive approach to the analysis of violent conflict between states. Considering war at the international, state, substate, and individual levels, Sjoberg's feminist perspective elevates a number of causal variables in war decision-making. These include structural gender inequality, cycles of gendered violence, state masculine posturing, the often overlooked role of emotion in political interactions, gendered understandings of power, and states' mistaken perception of their own autonomy and unitary nature. Gendering Global Conflict also calls attention to understudied spaces that can be sites of war, such as the workplace, the household, and even the bedroom. Her findings show gender to be a linchpin of even the most tedious and seemingly bland tactical and logistical decisions in violent conflict. Armed with that information, Sjoberg undertakes the task of redefining and reintroducing critical readings of war's political, economic, and humanitarian dimensions, developing the beginnings of a feminist theory of war.
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- Publication date
- 9780231148603 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231148607 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780231148610 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0231148615 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780231520003 (e-book)
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