The Aftermath: Women in Post-Conflict Transformation

Book Description
What happens to women in the aftermath of war and internal conflict? This book asserts that the post-war period is too late for women to transform patriarchal gender relations; the foundations for change must be built during conflict. The Contributors analyze what women endure and what they construct during and after conflict, what obstacles they encounter in their search for autonomy and what bonds of solidarity they create in building peace.



About the Author
Meredeth Turshen teaches Gender and Development and Third World Social Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University.

Sheila Meintjes is Senior Lecturer in Political Studies, and co-ordinator of the Gender Studies Programme in the Graduate School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of the Witswatersrand, South Africa.

Anu Pillay is a gender and development practitioner and winner of South Africa MaAfrika award in 1996 for social contribution.



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Focusing both on the gendered violence rampant during wartime and the abilities of women to use the disruption of wartime to attempt to change the everyday gendered violence of "peacetime," 14 contributions from a variety of fields explore the experience and activities of women in post-conflict societies. Introductory essays deal with issues of theory, exploring issues of gender, identity, the state, and reconciliation. The remaining eight essays focus on the experiences of women in South Asia, Eritrea, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, and Namibia. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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