Gender and Civilian Victimization in War: Kill the Women First by Laura Sjoberg

Gender and Civilian Victimization in War by Laura Sjoberg, Jessica L. Peet

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Description This book explores the role of gender in influencing war-fighting actors' strategies towards the attack or protection of civilians.

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This book explores the role of gender in influencing war-fighting actors' strategies toward the attack or protection of civilians.Traditional narratives suggest that killing civilians intentionally in wars happens infrequently and that the perpetration of civilian targeting is limited to aberrant actors. Recently, scholars have shown that both state and non-state actors target civilians, even while explicitly deferring to the civilian immunity principle. This book fills a gap in the accounts of how civilian targeting happens and shows that these actors are in large part targeting women rather than some gender-neutral understanding of civilians. It presents a history of civilian victimization in wars and conflicts and then lays out a feminist theoretical approach to understanding civilian victimization. It explores the British Blockade of Germany in World War I, the Soviet 'Rape of Berlin' in World War II, the Rwandan genocide, and the contemporary conflict in northeast Nigeria. Across these case studies, the authors lay out that gender is key to how war-fighting actors understand both themselves and their opponents and therefore plays a role in shaping strategic and tactical choices. It makes the argument that seeing women in nationalist and war narratives is crucial to understanding when and how civilians come to be targeted in wars, and how that targeting can be reduced.This book will be of much interest to students of critical security, gender studies, war studies, and International Relations in general.

Author Biography

The late Jessica L. Peet taught at the University of Florida, the University of Southern California, and Bucknell University, USA.Laura Sjoberg is a professor of political science at the University of Florida, USA.

Details ISBN 1138290831 ISBN-13 9781138290839 Title Gender and Civilian Victimization in War Author Laura Sjoberg, Jessica L. Peet Format Hardcover Year 2019 Pages 200 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd GE_Item_ID:158255433; About Us

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