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Gendering Global Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century - Practice, Politics and the Power of Representation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Gendering Global Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century - Practice, Politics and the Power of Representation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
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"This volume is interesting both because of its global focus, and
its chronology up to the present, it covers a good century of
changes. It will help define the field of gender studies of
humanitarianism, and its relevance for understanding the history of
nation-building, and a political history that goes beyond nations."
- Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History and ARC Kathleen
Laureate Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia This volume
discusses the relationship between gender and humanitarian
discourses and practices in the twentieth century. It analyses the
ways in which constructions, norms and ideologies of gender both
shaped and were shaped in global humanitarian contexts. The
individual chapters present issues such as post-genocide relief and
rehabilitation, humanitarian careers and subjectivities, medical
assistance, community aid, child welfare and child soldiering. They
give prominence to the beneficiaries of aid and their use of
humanitarian resources, organizations and structures by
investigating the effects of humanitarian activities on gender
relations in the respective societies. Approaching humanitarianism
as a global phenomenon, the volume considers actors and theoretical
positions from the global North and South (from Europe to the
Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and South East Asia as well
as North America). It combines state and non-state humanitarian
initiatives and scrutinizes their gendered dimension on local,
regional, national and global scales. Focusing on the time between
the late nineteenth century and the post-Cold War era, the volume
concentrates on a period that not only witnessed a major expansion
of humanitarian action worldwide but also saw fundamental changes
in gender relations and the gradual emergence of gender-sensitive
policies in humanitarian organizations in many Western and
non-Western settings.
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