The most wide-ranging book ever published on gender-selective mass
killing, or "gendercide," this collection of essays is also the
first to explore systematically the targeting of non-combatant
"battle-age" males in various wartime and peacetime contexts.
Representing such fields as sociology, political science,
psychology, queer studies, and human-rights activism, the
contributors explore themes and issues outlined by editor Adam
Jones in the book's opening essay. In that article, which provoked
considerable debate when it was first published in 2000, Jones
argues that throughout history and around the world, the population
group most consistently targeted for mass killing and state-backed
oppression are non-combatant men of roughly fifteen to fifty-five
years of age. Such males, Jones contends, are typically seen as
"the group posing the greatest danger to the conquering force."
Jones's article also examines the use of "gendercidal
institutions"--such as female infanticide, witch-hunts, military
conscription, and forced labor--against both women and men.
The subsequent essays--some original, some drawn from a special
issue of the "Journal of Genocide Research" and other
sources--expand, diversify, and criticize this framing of
gendercide. They range from a sophisticated theoretical analysis of
gendercide to in-depth treatments of such topics as the Rwandan
genocide of 1994, the gendercidal oppression of young African
American males, the predicament of gays and lesbians in the face of
increasing biotechnological manipulation of human behavior, and the
psychology of shame and humiliation underlying generdercides
against both sexes. Still other articles take issue with Jones's
theories of gendercide, or explore how human-rights organizations
have defined, documented, and responded to gendercide and other
sex-specific atrocities. A closing essay considers the relevance of
feminist and men's studies literatures for the study of
gendercide.
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