An important collection of articles that challenge both historically and currently the hegemonic masculinity of wars, conflicts and soldiers involved in wars and conflict. Highlights women’s experiences and sacrifices in defending their countries and laments their societal traditional culture which fails to recognize such achievements upon their return from the fight. The sections on women indirectly involved in war situations, illustrate the prevalence of gender discrimination embedded in such institutions and highlights women’s struggles in joining and becoming members of such structures.
An important collection of articles that challenge both historically and currently the hegemonic masculinity of wars, conflicts and soldiers involved in wars and conflict. Highlights women’s experiences and sacrifices in defending their countries and laments their societal traditional culture which fails to recognize such achievements upon their return from the fight. The sections on women indirectly involved in war situations, illustrate the prevalence of gender discrimination embedded in such institutions and highlights women’s struggles in joining and becoming members of such structures.
Shirley Ardener, has carried out many years anthropological fieldwork in Nigeria and in Cameroon where she is still involved with the National Anglophone Archives in Buea which she and her husband Edwin set up. She was the Founding Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women (1983-1997) renamed the International Gender Studies at Lady Margaret Hall Oxford University of which she is currently a Research Associate, and a Research Associate of the Institute of Social Anthropology at Oxford. She works on gender, microcredit, nudity, and humour. Books include Swedish Ventures in Cameroon (2002) and Changing Sex and Bending Gender (ed. 2005) .
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Women's Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences of War across Continents: An Introduction Shirley Ardener Chapter 1. The Resistance of Francesca Tonetti in German-Occupied Venice 1943-1945 Lidia Dina Sciama Chapter 2. Ank Faber-Chabot, A Dutchwoman who Sheltered Jews in World War II Marieke Faber Clarke Chapter 3. Hildegard Jaschok's Testimony: Expulsion and Hope in World War II Maria Jaschok Chapter 4. Mau Mau Women: Sixty Years Later Tabitha Kanogo Chapter 5. Women and Conflict in Burma's Borderlands Mandy Sadan Chapter 6. Rebuilding Family, Body and Soul: New Life on the Cambodian Border Janette Davies Chapter 7. Rwandan Women at War: Fighting for the Rwandan Patriotic Front (1990-1994) Hannah Spens-Black Chapter 8. Women War Correspondents in 2013 Glenda Cooper Chapter 9. Talking Gender, War & Security at NATO Matthew Hurley Chapter 10. Military Masculinities and Counterinsurgency Theory in Afghanistan: An Uneasy Relationship? Rachel Grimes
Introduction: Women's Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences of War across Continents: An Introduction Shirley Ardener Chapter 1. The Resistance of Francesca Tonetti in German-Occupied Venice 1943-1945 Lidia Dina Sciama Chapter 2. Ank Faber-Chabot, A Dutchwoman who Sheltered Jews in World War II Marieke Faber Clarke Chapter 3. Hildegard Jaschok's Testimony: Expulsion and Hope in World War II Maria Jaschok Chapter 4. Mau Mau Women: Sixty Years Later Tabitha Kanogo Chapter 5. Women and Conflict in Burma's Borderlands Mandy Sadan Chapter 6. Rebuilding Family, Body and Soul: New Life on the Cambodian Border Janette Davies Chapter 7. Rwandan Women at War: Fighting for the Rwandan Patriotic Front (1990-1994) Hannah Spens-Black Chapter 8. Women War Correspondents in 2013 Glenda Cooper Chapter 9. Talking Gender, War & Security at NATO Matthew Hurley Chapter 10. Military Masculinities and Counterinsurgency Theory in Afghanistan: An Uneasy Relationship? Rachel Grimes
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