The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping
Author: Edited by Cynthia Cockburn and Dubravka Zarkov
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart   Published: June 2002
ISBN:   PB 0 85315 946 7
Subject: Politics
  • Through a focus on two countries, Bosnia and the Netherlands, linked through a ‘peace-keeping operation’, the contributors illuminate the many ways in which processes of demilitarisation and peace-keeping are structured by notions of masculinity and femi

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    List of Contents
     
    Bookmarks Contents
     
    Acknowledgements
     
    Dubravka Zarkov and Cynthia Cockburn Introduction
     
    Part 1: Dismantling militarism, decommissioning masculinities Cynthia Enloe Demilitarization - or more of the same? Feminist questions to ask in the postwar moment
     
    R. W. Connell Masculinities, the reduction of violence and the pursuit of peace
     
    Dyan Mazurana International peacekeeping operations: to neglect gender is to risk peacekeeping failure
     
    Part 2: Gendered institutions, gendered interventions Madeleine Rees International intervention in Bosnia- Herzegovina: the cost of ignoring gender
     
    Cynthia Cockburn Women's organization in the rebuilding of postwar Bosnia- Herzegovina
     
    Suzanne Williams Conflicts of interest: gender in Oxfam's emergency response
     
    Cynthia Cockburn and Meliha Hubic Gender and the peacekeeping military: a view from Bosnian women's organizations.
     
    Jolanda Bosch and Desiree Verweij Enduring ambivalence: the Dutch Armed Forces and their women recruits
     
    Part 3: Soldiering and the nation: masculine relations Stefan Dudink The unheroic men of a moral nation: masculinity and nation in modern Dutch history
     
    Marc de Leeuw A gentlemen's agreement: Srebrenica in the context of Dutch war history
     
    Dubravka Zarkov Srebrenica Trauma: masculinity, military and national selfimage in Dutch daily newspapers
     
    References
     
    Notes on contributors
     
    Index