Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives

Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, Christina Ewig

NYU Press, Nov 15, 2013 - Political Science - 328 pages

The nature of human security is changing globally: interstate conflict and even intrastate conflict may be diminishing worldwide, yet threats to individuals and communities persist. Large-scale violence by formal and informal armed forces intersects with interpersonal and domestic forms of violence in mutually reinforcing ways. Gender, Violence, and Human Security takes a critical look at notions of human security and violence through a feminist lens, drawing on both theoretical perspectives and empirical examinations through case studies from a variety of contexts around the globe.






This fascinating volume goes beyond existing feminist international relations engagements with security studies to identify not only limitations of the human security approach, but also possible synergies between feminist and human security approaches. Noted scholars Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, and Christina Ewig, along with their distinguished group of contributors, analyze specific case studies from around the globe, ranging from post-conflict security in Croatia to the relationship between state policy and gender-based crime in the United States. Shifting the focus of the term “human security” from its defensive emphasis to a more proactive notion of peace, the book ultimately calls for addressing the structural issues that give rise to violence. A hard-hitting critique of the ways in which global inequalities are often overlooked by human security theorists, Gender, Violence, and Human Security presents a much-needed intervention into the study of power relations throughout the world.

Contents

• What Does Postconflict Security Mean for Women?: 33
• Gendering Insecurities Informalization and: 50
• The Resonance: 79
• Work and Love in the Gendered U S Insecurity State: 109
• Masculinity Violence and: 132
• Feminist Collaboration with the State in Response: 191
• NGOs: 214
• Violence against Women Human Security and Human: 238
• Perus Truth: 260
• About the Contributors: 309
• Index: 315

About the author

Aili Mari Tripp is Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women's Studies and Director of the Center for Research on Gender and Women at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Myra Marx Ferree is the Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology and Director of the European Union Center of Excellence at the University of Wisconsin. Christina Ewig is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
• Editors: Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, Christina Ewig
• Publisher: NYU Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0814770207, 9780814770207
• Length: 328 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / General; Political Science / Human Rights; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science / Violence in Society; Social Science / Women's Studies