Gender And Civilian Victimization In War (Routledge Studies In Gender And Security)

Feminists have argued that the civilian immunity principle in war is constituted by a gendered story of (male) "just warriors" legitimating wars to protect their female "beautiful souls" back home - one proves one's manliness in war (individually and collectively) by "protecting" the feminine nation "back home." This illusion of protection, then, both defines the civilian immunity principle, and provides a justification for fighting wars. The book begins with a history of civilian victimization in conflicts, and then lays out this feminist theoretical approach, examining the role that gender plays in the causes and impacts of intentional victimization of civilians in war and conflict, with an eye towards anticipating when belligerents will target civilians, addressing the root causes of civilian victimization, and reducing instances in which belligerents target civilians intentionally. The authors then test the theoretical interpretation two ways: with large-N data analysis, and then through four case studies of civilian victimization in war and conflict. Using a dataset of wars and non-state military conflicts from 1800 to 2010, the authors test hypotheses that gender is a key factor in civilian victimization. They then analyze four cases to see if the "story" that the regression models tell of why belligerents intentionally victimize civilians in war fits with the actual cases of that civilian victimization. The case studies, using process tracing, ask both how gender-based explanations play into belligerents' decisions to target civilians and what the relationship between "desperation" and civilian victimization really is. 9781138290839 1138290831 192 Civilians in war NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E_K8AQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Laura Sjoberg, Jessica Peet
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Dec 03, 2019
• • Number of Pages: 200 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138290831
• • ISBN-13: 9781138290839