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International security and gender / Nicole Detraz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Dimensions of security | Dimensions of securityPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2012.Description: vi, 255 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780745651170 (pbk.)
  • 0745651178 (pbk.)
  • 9780745651163 (hbk.)
  • 074565116X (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355/.0330001  23
Contents:
Understanding gender in security debates -- Gendered militarization and militarism -- Gender in peacekeeping and peacebuilding -- A gendere d understanding of terrorism -- Human security and gender -- Gender, se curity, and environment -- Conclusion : the contributions of gender len ses to security.
Summary: The author "explores the broad terrain of security studies through a gender lens ... By examining issues of militarization, peacekeeping, terrorism, human and environmental security, the book considers how the gender-security nexus pushes us to ask different questions and broaden our sphere of analysis. Including gender in our analysis of security challenges the primacy of traditional security concepts and shifts the focus to be more inclusive ...Our society often expects men and women t o play different roles, and this is no less true in the realm of securi ty. This book demonstrates that security debates exhibit gendered unde rstanding of key concepts and, while these gendered assumptions may ben efit specific people, they are often detrimental to others, particularl y in the key realm of policymaking."--par. 4 of back cover
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Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Books - Open Access Books - Open Access Faculty of Social Sciences - Women and Gender Resource Center FSS 355.0 330001 DET (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 001254083

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-240) and index.

Understanding gender in security debates -- Gendered militarization and militarism -- Gender in peacekeeping and peacebuilding -- A gendere d understanding of terrorism -- Human security and gender -- Gender, se curity, and environment -- Conclusion : the contributions of gender len ses to security.

The author "explores the broad terrain of security studies through a gender lens ... By examining issues of militarization, peacekeeping, terrorism, human and environmental security, the book considers how the gender-security nexus pushes us to ask different questions and broaden our sphere of analysis. Including gender in our analysis of security challenges the primacy of traditional security concepts and shifts the focus to be more inclusive ...Our society often expects men and women t o play different roles, and this is no less true in the realm of securi ty. This book demonstrates that security debates exhibit gendered unde rstanding of key concepts and, while these gendered assumptions may ben efit specific people, they are often detrimental to others, particularl y in the key realm of policymaking."--par. 4 of back cover

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