ABSTRACT
Making Gender, Making War is a unique interdisciplinary edited collection which explores the social construction of gender, war-making and peacekeeping. It highlights the institutions and processes involved in the making of gender in terms of both men and women, masculinity and femininity. The "war question for feminism" marks a thematic red thread throughout; it is a call to students and scholars of feminism to take seriously and engage with the task of analyzing war. Contributors analyze how war-making is intertwined with the making of gender in a diversity of empirical case studies, organized around four themes: gender, violence and militarism; how the making of gender is connected to a (re)making of the nation through military practices; UN SCR 1325 and gender mainstreaming in institutional practices; and gender subjectivities in the organization of violence, exploring the notion of violent women and non-violent men.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |32 pages
Theme I Conceptualizing Gender, Violence, Militarism
part |55 pages
Theme II Making Gender and (Re)Making the Nation
chapter |12 pages
What Does a Bath Towel Have to Do with Security Policy?
chapter |13 pages
Friendly War-Fighters and Invisible Women
part |45 pages
Theme III Institutional Practices and Traveling Concepts
chapter |14 pages
A Gendered Protection for the ‘Victims' of War
chapter |15 pages
Experiences, Reflections and Learning
part |55 pages
Theme IV Gender Subjectivity in the Organization of Violence
chapter |15 pages
In the Business of (In)Security?
chapter |9 pages
Reenvisioning Masculinities in the Context of Conflict Transformation
part |7 pages
Conclusions