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Women and Conflict
SERIES: Focus on Gender
Description | Contents |
EDITED BY:
Helen O'Connell
SERIES:
Focus on Gender
ISBN-10: 0855982225
ISBN-13: 9780855982225
STOCK CODE:
00252226
AVAILABILITY:
In Print
PUBLISHER: Oxfam Publishing
FORMAT:
Paperback
(pp: 58)
245 x 189mm
PUBLISHED:
01 Dec 1993
READERSHIP:
Postgraduate, Activists and Campaigners, Professional and Practitioners, Undergraduate,
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DESCRIPTION
In situations of war or violent conflict, all civilians suffer. However, there are many specific, gender-related human rights issues which organisations involved in relief, development, and emergency work in conflict situations need to address. 'Women and Conflict' concentrates on gender issues in situations of military and civil strife, and examines the effects of armed conflict on women's lives and the appalling situation of many women refugees and displaced.
Other aspects of conflict and exploitation which confront women are also examined: violence in the domestic sphere, the daily infringement of their basic civil rights, the threat or experience of sexual abuse, the increased stress and workload for women which result from cuts from state services. However, women are not passive victims, and many of the articles in this issue show how they are in the forefront of work for change, peace, security, and equitable gender relations - essential to the reduction of conflict at all levels.
REVIEWS
...The issues raised in this volume should be of concern to all who are alarmed at the plight of women scarred by conflict. This collection deserves a wide readership
'Disasters', December 1995
CONTENTS
- Editorial
Helen O' Connell
- Gender-related violence: its scope and relevance
Judy El Bushra and Eugenia Piza-Lopez
- Conflict and the women of Chad
Achta Djibrine Sy
- Life during wartime: women and conflict in Afghanistan
Fiona McLachan
- Working on gender in conflict situations: some ideas on strategy
Judy El Bushra and Eugenia Piza-Lopez
- Refugee women: their perspectives and our responses
Tina Wallace
- Working with women refugees in easter Sri Lanke
Nalini Kasynathan
- The psyco-social effects of 'La Violencia' on widows of El Quiche, Guatemala
Judith Zur
- 'Clutching at a knifeblade:' human rights and development from Asian women's perspective
Nelia Sancho-Liao
- Domestic violence as a development issue
Ruth Jacobson
- Forced prostitution of women and girls in Brazil
Anti-Slavery International
- Colombian women prisoners in Britain
Jo Fisher
- Interview with Sochua Mu Leiper, Director of Khemara
- Letters to the Editor
- News from GADU
- Resource - Book Review and Further reading.
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