Women and war

In: Peace review: the international quarterly of world peace, Band 8, S. 315-421

Abstract

Examines the relationship between gender and war in the context of ethnicity, citizenship, history, women's agency, regional differences, aspects of motherhood, and peace activism; questions the notion of women as essentially nonviolent. Some focus on the Bosnian violence and on peace activism by Israeli, Palestinian, and Afghan women; includes feminist perspectives.