GENDER AND CIVILIAN VICTIMIZATION IN WAR
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- Author: JESSICA L. PEET
- ISBN: 9781138290846
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ABOUT THE BOOK
This book explores the role of gender in
influencing war-fighting actors’ strategies toward the attack or protection of
civilians.
Traditional narratives suggest
that killing civilians intentionally in wars happens infrequently and that the
perpetration of civilian targeting is limited to aberrant actors. Recently,
scholars have shown that both state and non-state actors target civilians, even
while explicitly deferring to the civilian immunity principle. This book fills
a gap in the accounts of how civilian targeting happens and shows that these
actors are in large part targeting women rather than some gender-neutral
understanding of civilians. It presents a history of civilian victimization in
wars and conflicts and then lays out a feminist theoretical approach to
understanding civilian victimization. It explores the British Blockade of Germany
in World War I, the Soviet ‘Rape of Berlin’ in World War II, the Rwandan
genocide, and the contemporary conflict in northeast Nigeria. Across these case
studies, the authors lay out that gender is key to how war-fighting actors
understand both themselves and their opponents and therefore plays a role in
shaping strategic and tactical choices. It makes the argument that seeing women
in nationalist and war narratives is crucial to understanding when and how
civilians come to be targeted in wars, and how that targeting can be reduced.
This book will be of much
interest to students of critical security, gender studies, war studies, and
International Relations in general.
1. Introduction
2. The Civilian and Civilian Victimization
3. Gender and Intentional Civilian Victimization
4. Starving Women, Emasculating Nation: The British Blockade in World War I
5. Marking German Defeat on Women’s Bodies: The Soviet Occupation of Berlin in 1945
6. Writing Genocide on Gendered Bodies: The Rwandan Genocide
7. Gendered Civilian Targetings in Conflict: Boko Haram in Nigeria
8. Conclusion: Gender, Civilian Victimization, and Gendered Targeting in Global Politics