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A Discussion of Laura sjoberg's Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2014

Sara Meger
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Abstract

Charge: War is a defining political experience, and the study of war—its causes, its dynamics, its consequences–is a central theme of political science. It is an organized activity that involves both men and women, as combatants and as civilians, as perpetrators and as victims. Laura Sjoberg's Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War (Columbia University Press, 2013) is an important new book that argues that the fields of international relations and security studies are impoverished by an insufficient attention to the gendering of conflict, and that a “feminist theory of war” is therefore indispensable to an adequate understanding of the politics of war. This symposium brings together a range of prominent political science scholars, writing from a range of theoretical perspectives, to comment critically on Sjoberg's book and on the broader theme of the gendering of global conflict. —Jeffrey C. Isaac, Editor

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Review Symposium: Gender and Politics
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 2014 , pp. 168 - 171
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2014 

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