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Gender and Civilian Victimization in War (Hardcover)
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Gender and Civilian Victimization in War (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Gender and Security
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This book explores the role of gender in influencing war-fighting
actors' strategies toward the attack or protection of civilians.
Traditional narratives suggest that killing civilians intentionally
in wars happens infrequently and that the perpetration of civilian
targeting is limited to aberrant actors. Recently, scholars have
shown that both state and non-state actors target civilians, even
while explicitly deferring to the civilian immunity principle. This
book fills a gap in the accounts of how civilian targeting happens
and shows that these actors are in large part targeting women
rather than some gender-neutral understanding of civilians. It
presents a history of civilian victimization in wars and conflicts
and then lays out a feminist theoretical approach to understanding
civilian victimization. It explores the British Blockade of Germany
in World War I, the Soviet 'Rape of Berlin' in World War II, the
Rwandan genocide, and the contemporary conflict in northeast
Nigeria. Across these case studies, the authors lay out that gender
is key to how war-fighting actors understand both themselves and
their opponents and therefore plays a role in shaping strategic and
tactical choices. It makes the argument that seeing women in
nationalist and war narratives is crucial to understanding when and
how civilians come to be targeted in wars, and how that targeting
can be reduced. This book will be of much interest to students of
critical security, gender studies, war studies, and International
Relations in general.
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