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Is there a right time for gender-just peace? Feminist anti-war organising revisited.
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Gender & Education . 2016, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p431-444. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- This paper addresses the question of totalising gender-power relations that have led to and shaped the wars of the 1990s in Yugoslavia and the emerging ethno-national states on the 'periphery' of Europe. I argue that the same type of gender-power relations continue to dominate the region, notably Serbia, and to perpetuate gender inequalities and gender-based violence (GBV) in its many everyday and structural forms, causing profound levels of human insecurity. This analysis aims to set in motion a debate around how to tackle these continuing gender inequalities and GBV in post-war societies. In so doing, I propose a shift from focusing on the hierarchy of victimisation that has characterised much of the feminist analyses, activism, and scholarly work in relation to these (and other) conflicts, to a relational understanding of the gendered processes of victimisation in war and peace, that is – of both women and men. Such an approach holds a potential to undermine the power systems that engender these varied types of victimisation by ultimately reshaping the notions of masculinity and femininity, which are central to the gender-power systems that generate gender-unjust peace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CRIME victims
*GENDER inequality
*MASCULINITY
*HUMAN security
*FEMININITY
*ACTIVISM
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09540253
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Gender & Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 117830722
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2016.1169252