Patriarchy

War and Armed Conflict: Threat to African Women's Human Security

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Ahmed Ali, Fatuma. 2010. “War and Armed Conflict: Threat to African Women’s Human Security.” In The Gender Imperative: Human Security Vs State Security, edited by Betty A. Reardon and Asha Hans, 110–37. New York: Routledge.

Author: Fatuma Ahmed Ali

Topics: Armed Conflict, Feminisms, Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Gender Equality/Inequality, Security, Human Security

Year: 2010

Challenging the Patriarchal National Security Paradigm: The Role of Ethiopian Women in Peace and Security

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Ayele, Mesfin G. 2010. “Challenging the Patriarchal National Security Paradigm: The Role of Ethiopian Women in Peace and Security.” In The Gender Imperative: Human Security Vs State Security, edited by Betty A. Reardon and Asha Hans, 87–109. New York: Routledge.

Author: Mesfin G. Ayele

Topics: Armed Conflict, Feminisms, Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Gender Equality/Inequality, Security, Human Security Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Ethiopia

Year: 2010

Human Security and Layers of Oppression: Women in South Africa

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Muthien, Bernedette. 2010. “Human Security and Layers of Oppression: Women in South Africa.” In The Gender Imperative: Human Security Vs State Security, edited by Betty A. Reardon and Asha Hans, 61–86. New York: Routledge.

Author: Bernedette Muthien

Topics: Armed Conflict, Feminisms, Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Gender Equality/Inequality, Security, Human Security Regions: Africa, Southern Africa Countries: South Africa

Year: 2010

Memory, Suffering, Survival Tactics, and Healing among Jopadhola Women in Post-War Uganda

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Abel, Marijke, and Annemiek Richters. 2009. “Memory, Suffering, Survival Tactics, and Healing among Jopadhola Women in Post-War Uganda.” Development in Practice 19 (3): 340-49. doi:10.1080/09614520902808050.

Authors: Marijke Abel, Annemiek Richters

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This ethnographic case study addresses the question of how women in Jopadhola patriarchal society in Eastern Uganda remember three decades of civil war and violence and survived its aftermath. When the war ended, little changed for these women, who are still exposed to a continuum of gender-based violence and continue to use the same tactics that, during the war, enabled them somehow to live with their suffering. Local NGOs, with the support of the government, have started to assist Jopadhola women to improve the quality of their present-day lives. By rebuilding their human and social capital, these NGOs are also creating the space for women to heal their war memories.

Keywords: gender-based violence, healing, civil society, conflict and reconstruction, gender and diversity, Rights, Sub-Saharan Africa

Topics: Armed Conflict, Civil Wars, Gender, Women, Gender-Based Violence, Patriarchy, NGOs Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Uganda

Year: 2009

Gender and the State in Rural Chile

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Matear, Ann. 1997. “Gender and the State in Rural Chile.” Bulletin of Latin American Research 16 (1): 97-105.

Author: Ann Matear

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This paper focuses on SERNAM, the state institution responsible for the incorporation of gender into public policy in Chile, and the actions taken by the state to benefit women employed in the modern agricultural sector. It charts the emergence of the demands for such an institution by the women's movement, and the creation of SERNAM as an integral part of the transition to democracy. In particular, the paper analyses the Programme for the Children of the Temporeras, which is a unique state-led initiative to provide childcare facilities to enable women to enter the seasonal labour market during the summer months. The paper explores the complex relations between gender, the state, capitalist agriculture and patriarchal structures, with the aim of highlighting the sometimes unexpected convergence of interests, and the points of conflict.

Topics: Democracy / Democratization, Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Governance, Livelihoods Regions: Americas, South America Countries: Chile

Year: 1997

The Tradition Effect: Framing Honor Crimes in Turkey

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Kogacioglu, Dicle. 2004. “The Tradition Effect: Framing Honor Crimes in Turkey.” Differences 15 (2): 118-51.

Author: Dicle Kogacioglu

Topics: Gender, Women, Gender-Based Violence, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy Regions: MENA, Asia, Middle East, Europe, Southern Europe Countries: Turkey

Year: 2004

Adolescent Girls in Colombia’s Guerrilla: An Exploration into Gender and Trauma Dynamics

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Hernández, Pilar, and Amanda Romero. 2003. “Adolescent Girls in Colombia’s Guerrilla: An Exploration into Gender and Trauma Dynamics.” Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community 26 (1): 21–38. 

Authors: Pilar Hernández, Amanda Romero

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Armed combat in childhood and adolescence is a form of child abuse and a violation of International Humanitarian Law. This study explores the impact of guerrilla life in adolescent peasant girls coerced to join the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC). It analyzes their stories within the social context of the ongoing conflict in the country. Seven adolescent peasant girls were interviewed with a semi-structured format and the descriptive data were analyzed using the constant comparison method. Results reflect the ways in which they joined the guerrilla, and the traumatic aspects of gendered-based violence and combat exposure. An understanding of these traumatic experiences is discussed highlighting the continuum of patriarchal practices that make girls specific targets of sexual exploitation. Implications for rehabilitation programs are discussed.

Keywords: trauma, war, Gender

Topics: Armed Conflict, Combatants, Female Combatants, Gender, Girls, Gender-Based Violence, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Health, Trauma, International Law, International Humanitarian Law (IHL), Military Forces & Armed Groups, Non-State Armed Groups, Sexual Violence, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Regions: Americas, South America Countries: Colombia

Year: 2003

Feminism Versus Multiculturalism

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Volpp, Leti. 2001. “Feminism Versus Multiculturalism.” Columbia Law Review 101 (5): 1181–1218.

Author: Leti Volpp

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To posit feminism and multiculturalism as oppositional is to assume that minority women are victims of their cultures. This assumption, as Professor Volpp illustrates in this Essay, is achieved by a discursive strategy that constructs gender subordination as integral only to certain cultures. She traces the origins of the ubiquitous claim that minority and Third World cultures are more subordinating than culture in the West to the history of colonialism, the origins of liberalism, depictions of the feminist subject, and the use of binary logic. Pitting feminism against multiculturalism has certain consequences: It obscures the influences that in fact shape cultural practices, hides the forces besides culture that affect women's lives, elides the way women exercise agency within patriarchy, and masks the level of violence within the United States. Professor Volpp concludes by suggesting a basis for a constructive dialogue beyond the discourse of feminism versus multiculturalism.

Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Feminisms, Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Violence Regions: Americas, North America Countries: United States of America

Year: 2001

Gendered States: Rethinking Culture as a Site of South Asian Human Rights Work

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Visweswaran, Kamala. 2004. “Gendered States: Rethinking Culture as a Site of South Asian Human Rights Work.” Human Rights Quarterly 26 (2): 483–511.

Author: Kamala Visweswaran

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This article explores recent critiques in feminist theory to examine how gender-based asylum cases and human rights reporting on South Asia rely upon the most static and patriarchal understandings of culture to establish a basis for intervention or advocacy. It argues that while cultural practices indeed reflect upon women's status, for gender-based asylum cases the emphasis may be more effectively placed upon a particular political system's denial of women's rights, or upon the interface between culture and the political system, rather than upon "culture" itself.

Topics: Feminisms, Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Rights, Human Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Asia, South Asia

Year: 2004

Nationalism, Militarism and Gender Politics: Women in the Military

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Toktas, Sule. 2002. "Nationalism, Militarism and Gender Politics: Women in the Military." Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 20 (2): 29-44.

Author: Sule Toktas

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This essay will problematize gender politics in processes of nationalism, militarism and modernization. It aims to bring in sight the complexity and disorderliness that the interconnections and crosscuts between gender and modernization imply. The article contracts out this task into four parts. First, it investigates gendered explanations of nation, national identity and nationalism on which masculinity is centralized epistemologically via social discourse. Second, it explores militarism as an extension and manifestation of state sovereignty and national identity with its heterosexual and masculine substantiation. Third, it cross-questions closely the link between nationalism, militarism and patriarchy in the specificity of women's inclusion to and exclusion from the military. Lastly, the article ends with a critical evaluation of the relationship between militarism, nationalism and patriarchy susceptible to modernization.

Topics: Combatants, Female Combatants, Gender, Women, Masculinity/ies, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Military Forces & Armed Groups, Militaries, Militarism, Nationalism

Year: 2002

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