Boxes and Tables vi
Abbreviations viii
Contributors xiii
Foreword by Cynthia Enloe xv
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Women and Wars: Toward a Conceptual Framework 1
Carol Cohn
2 Women and the Political Economy of War 36
Angela Raven-Roberts
3 Sexual Violence and Women’s Health in War 54
Pamela DeLargy
4 Women Forced to Flee: Refugees and Internally Displaced
Persons 80
Wenona Giles
5 Women and Political Activism in the Face of War and
Militarization 102
Carol Cohn and Ruth Jacobson
6 Women and State Military Forces 124
Jennifer G. Mathers
7 Women, Girls, and Non-State Armed Opposition Groups 146
Dyan Mazurana
8 Women and Peace Processes 169
Malathi de Alwis, Julie Mertus, and Tazreena Sajjad
9 Women, Girls, and Disarmament, Demobilization and
Reintegration (DDR) 194
Dyan Mazurana and Linda Eckerbom Cole
10 Women "After" Wars 215
Ruth Jacobson
Notes 242
References 250
Index 279
Carol Cohn is the author of Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures, published by Wiley.
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