War as Experience

Contributions from International Relations and Feminist Analysis

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ID23399438
AuthorsChristine Sylvester (0000-0002-0708-4222, Lancaster University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-05-07
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWar, feminism and international relations (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203100943
OpenAlexW4235111294
Open LibraryOL25238409M
ISBN9780203100943
LanguageEN
Citations received164

This book is a major new contribution to our understanding of war and international relations (IR). Divided into two sections, the first part surveys the state of war and war studies in international relations, security studies and in feminist international relations. The second part addresses a missing area of IR studies of war that feminism is well-placed to fill in: the emotional and physical aspects of war. The author examines a wide variety of conflict situations, such as the Israel/Palestine dispute, the Cold War, Vietnam, Nicaragua, wars of liberation in Africa, genocidal war in Rwanda; humanitarian interventionist war in the Balkans, the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 'war on terror'. Drawing on the latest feminist thinking, the author demonstrates how war is experienced as a body-based politics and in so doing provides an innovative and challenging corrective to traditional theories of war in international relations. This will be essential reading for all those with an interest in gender, war and international relations.

History · Military History and Strategy · Peacebuilding and International Security · War, Ethics, and Justification · Feminism · Feminist theory · Femmes et guerre · Guerre (Philosophie) · International Relations · Philosophy · Théorie féministe · War · War (philosophy) · Women and war

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