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Sex and World Peace is a groundbreaking demonstration that the
security of women is a vital factor in the occurrence of conflict
and war, unsettling a wide range of assumptions in political and
security discourse. Harnessing an immense amount of data, it
relates microlevel violence against women and macrolevel state
peacefulness across global settings. The authors find that the
treatment of women informs human interaction at all levels of
society. They call attention to the adverse effects on state
security of sex-based inequities such as sex ratios favoring males,
the practice of polygamy, and lax enforcement of national laws
protecting women. Their research challenges conventional
definitions of security and democracy and common understandings of
the causes of world events. The book considers a range of ways to
remedy these injustices, including top-down and bottom-up
approaches to redressing violence against women and the lack of sex
parity in decision-making. Advocating a state responsibility to
protect women, the authors campaign against women's systemic
insecurity, which threatens the security of all. Sex and World
Peace has been a go-to book for instructors, advocates, and policy
makers since its publication in 2012. Since then, there have been
major changes in world affairs, including the #MeToo movement, as
well as advances in both theoretical and empirical literature
surrounding the subject. This second edition, which adds coauthors
Rose McDermott and Donna Lee Bowen alongside Valerie M. Hudson and
Mary Caprioli, revises and updates the book for a new generation.
The book retains its foundational overview of the relationship
between women's oppression and war, enhanced by fresh data and new
material covering recent developments for global women's rights and
analysis of additional examples of gender and conflict throughout
the world.
Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social
organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females.
How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider
political order? The First Political Order is a groundbreaking
demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of
women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging
implications for global security and development. Incorporating
research findings spanning a variety of social science disciplines
and comprehensive empirical data detailing the status of women
around the globe, the book shows that female subordination
functions almost as a curse upon nations. A society's choice to
subjugate women has significant negative consequences: worse
governance, worse conflict, worse stability, worse economic
performance, worse food security, worse health, worse demographic
problems, worse environmental protection, and worse social
progress. Yet despite the pervasive power of social and political
structures that subordinate women, history-and the data-reveal
possibilities for progress. The First Political Order shows that
when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws,
customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve. It offers a new
paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and
violence, explaining what the international community can do now to
promote more equitable relations between men and women and,
thereby, security and peace. With comprehensive empirical evidence
of the wide-ranging harm of subjugating women, it is an important
book for security scholars, social scientists, policy makers,
historians, and advocates for women worldwide.
Sex and World Peace is a groundbreaking demonstration that the
security of women is a vital factor in the occurrence of conflict
and war, unsettling a wide range of assumptions in political and
security discourse. Harnessing an immense amount of data, it
relates microlevel violence against women and macrolevel state
peacefulness across global settings. The authors find that the
treatment of women informs human interaction at all levels of
society. They call attention to the adverse effects on state
security of sex-based inequities such as sex ratios favoring males,
the practice of polygamy, and lax enforcement of national laws
protecting women. Their research challenges conventional
definitions of security and democracy and common understandings of
the causes of world events. The book considers a range of ways to
remedy these injustices, including top-down and bottom-up
approaches to redressing violence against women and the lack of sex
parity in decision-making. Advocating a state responsibility to
protect women, the authors campaign against women's systemic
insecurity, which threatens the security of all. Sex and World
Peace has been a go-to book for instructors, advocates, and policy
makers since its publication in 2012. Since then, there have been
major changes in world affairs, including the #MeToo movement, as
well as advances in both theoretical and empirical literature
surrounding the subject. This second edition, which adds coauthors
Rose McDermott and Donna Lee Bowen alongside Valerie M. Hudson and
Mary Caprioli, revises and updates the book for a new generation.
The book retains its foundational overview of the relationship
between women's oppression and war, enhanced by fresh data and new
material covering recent developments for global women's rights and
analysis of additional examples of gender and conflict throughout
the world.
Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social
organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females.
How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider
political order? The First Political Order is a groundbreaking
demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of
women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging
implications for global security and development. Incorporating
research findings spanning a variety of social science disciplines
and comprehensive empirical data detailing the status of women
around the globe, the book shows that female subordination
functions almost as a curse upon nations. A society's choice to
subjugate women has significant negative consequences: worse
governance, worse conflict, worse stability, worse economic
performance, worse food security, worse health, worse demographic
problems, worse environmental protection, and worse social
progress. Yet despite the pervasive power of social and political
structures that subordinate women, history-and the data-reveal
possibilities for progress. The First Political Order shows that
when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws,
customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve. It offers a new
paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and
violence, explaining what the international community can do now to
promote more equitable relations between men and women and,
thereby, security and peace. With comprehensive empirical evidence
of the wide-ranging harm of subjugating women, it is an important
book for security scholars, social scientists, policy makers,
historians, and advocates for women worldwide.
The substantially revised and updated third edition of Everyday
Life in the Muslim Middle East focuses on the experiences of
ordinary men, women, and children from the region. Readers will
gain a grassroots appreciation of Middle East life, culture, and
society that recognizes the impact of wars and uprisings as well as
changes to Islamic practice due to advances in technology. The book
also explores the influence of social media on politics and labor
relations and the changing status of women, family values,
marriage, childrearing, gender, and gay rights. This dynamic and
imaginative volume continues to provide a rich resource for
understanding contemporary Muslim culture in the Middle East.
Religion and Terrorism: The Use of Violence in Abrahamic Monotheism
provides theoretical analysis of the nature of religious terrorism
and religious martyrdom and also delves deeply into terrorist
groups and beliefs in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religious
terrorism is found in all three of the great monotheistic faiths,
and while the public is most aware of Islamic terrorism, Jewish and
Christian faiths have extremist groups that warp their teaching -in
ways unrecognizable to most adherents- to support terrorism. This
work will be of interest to scholars in religious studies,
political science, and sociology.
Religion and Terrorism: The Use of Violence in Abrahamic Monotheism
provides theoretical analysis of the nature of religious terrorism
and religious martyrdom and also delves deeply into terrorist
groups and beliefs in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religious
terrorism is found in all three of the great monotheistic faiths,
and while the public is most aware of Islamic terrorism, Jewish and
Christian faiths have extremist groups that warp their teaching -in
ways unrecognizable to most adherents- to support terrorism. This
work will be of interest to scholars in religious studies,
political science, and sociology.
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