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Exploring the digital frontiers of feminist international
relations, this book investigates how gender can be mainstreamed
into discourse about technology and security. With a focus on big
data, communications technology, social media, cryptocurrency and
decentralized finance, the book explores the ways in which
technology presents sites for gender-based violence. Crucially, it
examines potential avenues for resistance at these sites,
especially regarding the actions of major tech companies,
surveillance by repressive governments and attempts to use the
Global South as a laboratory for new interventions. The book draws
valuable insights that will be essential to researchers in
international relations, security studies and feminist security
studies.
Exploring the digital frontiers of feminist international
relations, this book investigates how gender can be mainstreamed
into discourse about technology and security. With a focus on big
data, communications technology, social media, cryptocurrency and
decentralized finance, the book explores the ways in which
technology presents sites for gender-based violence. Crucially, it
examines potential avenues for resistance at these sites,
especially regarding the actions of major tech companies,
surveillance by repressive governments and attempts to use the
Global South as a laboratory for new interventions. The book draws
valuable insights which will be essential to researchers in
International Relations, Security Studies and Feminist Security
Studies.
Why do women go to war? Despite the reality that female combatants
exist the world over, we still know relatively little about who
these women are, what motivates them to take up arms, how they are
utilized by armed groups, and what happens to them when war ends.
This book uses three case studies to explore variation in women’s
participation in nonstate armed groups in a range of contemporary
political and social contexts: the civil war in Ukraine, the
conflicts involving Kurdish groups in the Middle East, and the
civil war in Colombia. In particular, the authors examine three
important aspects of women’s participation in armed groups:
mobilization, participation in combat, and conflict cessation. In
doing so, they shed light on women’s pathways into and out of
nonstate armed groups. They also address the implications of
women’s participation in these conflicts for policy, including
postconflict programming. This is an accessible and timely work
that will be a useful introduction to another side of contemporary
conflict.
Why Women Rebel presents a global analysis of the extent to which
women are engaged in armed, organized rebellions, and why they
choose to join such rebellions. Henshaw has collected and analyzed
data on women's participation in over 70 post-Cold War rebel
groups. The book provides a theoretical analysis drawing upon both
mainstream literature in the social sciences and critical, feminist
inquiry on women and political violence to offer a new gendered
theory on why women rebel. The book reveals that women are active
in over half of all rebel groups sampled and that, while the
majority of rebel groups have women serving in support roles away
from direct combat, approximately a third of these groups employ
women in the conduct of armed attacks, and just over a quarter have
women in a leadership capacity. Henshaw reaffirms the idea that
women are more likely to be engaged in left-wing political
organizations, but does suggest that more conservative or
traditional movements may also successfully incorporate women by
appealing to concerns about community rights. Addressing several
gaps in the current literature on this topic, this book will be of
interest to academics in the fields of political science,
international relations, security studies, and gender and women's
studies.
Why Women Rebel presents a global analysis of the extent to which
women are engaged in armed, organized rebellions, and why they
choose to join such rebellions. Henshaw has collected and analyzed
data on women's participation in over 70 post-Cold War rebel
groups. The book provides a theoretical analysis drawing upon both
mainstream literature in the social sciences and critical, feminist
inquiry on women and political violence to offer a new gendered
theory on why women rebel. The book reveals that women are active
in over half of all rebel groups sampled and that, while the
majority of rebel groups have women serving in support roles away
from direct combat, approximately a third of these groups employ
women in the conduct of armed attacks, and just over a quarter have
women in a leadership capacity. Henshaw reaffirms the idea that
women are more likely to be engaged in left-wing political
organizations, but does suggest that more conservative or
traditional movements may also successfully incorporate women by
appealing to concerns about community rights. Addressing several
gaps in the current literature on this topic, this book will be of
interest to academics in the fields of political science,
international relations, security studies, and gender and women's
studies.
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