Section: Topic 9 - Violence | POL361 - Gender and Politics - 2023/24

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- Select activity TOPIC 9 - OVERVIEW LECTURE: 5 APRIL (WEEK 11) SEMI...
  
  TOPIC 9 - Overview
  Lecture: 5 April (week 11)
  Seminar: 11-12 March (week 12)
  
  Women For Peace: Banners from Greenham Common.
  
  In this lecture, we explore the concept of political violence and consider how the field of gender studies and feminist scholarship have advanced our understanding of its different forms and contexts. We debunk some key myths, including the association between men/war and women/peace. We also examine how a feminist critique of violence has developed and informed various forms of resistance and campaigns (.
  Explain how the field of gender studies and feminist scholarship have complicated our understanding of violence
  Understand feminist critiques of violence, and contestations over non-violence and peace politics
  Assess various anti-war campaigns
- Select activity Lecture Slides Topic 9
  
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- Select activity TOPIC 9 - Seminar Preparation PREPARATION FOR THE ...
  
  TOPIC 9 - Seminar Preparation
  
  Preparation for the seminar
  1) Attend and take notes on the lecture.
  2) Read and take notes on the following core reading:
  Sara Ruddick (1989) "Mothers and Men's Wars," in Adrienne Harris and Ynestra King (Eds.) Rocking The Ship of The State: Toward A Feminist Peace Politics, pp. 75-92. Ebook available at QMUL Library.
  Laura Sjoberg and Caron E. Gentry (2007) "Dying for Sex and Love in the Middle East," in Mothers, monsters, whores: women's violence in global politics. Zed Books, pp. 112-140. Ebook available at QMUL Library.
  Hagar Kotef and Amir Merav (2007) (En) gendering checkpoints: Checkpoint watch and the repercussions of intervention, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 32(4), 973-996.
  3) Finally, feel free to also read and take notes on the following additional reading for the topic:
  Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberly Hutchings (2014) Feminism and the critique of violence: negotiating feminist political agency, Journal of Political Ideologies, 19 (2), 143-163.
  Swati Parashar (2023) "Violence," in Laura J. Shepherd and Caitlin Hamilton (Eds.) Gender matters in global politics : a feminist introduction to international relations, Routledge. Ebook available via QMUL Library.
  Seminar discussion
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- Select activity TOPIC 9 - SUPPLEMENTARY READING Sara Ruddick (1980...
  
  TOPIC 9 - Supplementary Reading
  Sara Ruddick (1980) Maternal thinking, Feminist studies, 6 (2), 342-367.
  Sara Ruddick (1989) Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace. Boston: Beacon Press. Print book available at QMUL Library.
  Cynthia Enloe (2004) “All the Men Are in the Militias, All the Women Are Victims. The Politics of Masculinity and Femininity in Nationalist Wars,” in The curious feminist: Searching for women in a new age of empire. Berkley and London: University of California Press, pp. 99-118.
  Bülent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen (2005) Becoming abject: Rape as a weapon of war. Body & Society 11(1), pp. 111-128.
  Sikata Banerjee (2006) Armed masculinity, Hindu nationalism and female political participation in India: Heroic mothers, chaste wives and celibate warriors. International Feminist Journal of Politics 8(1), pp. 62-83.
  Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern (2009) Why do soldiers rape? Masculinity, violence, and sexuality in the armed forces in the Congo (DRC), International studies quarterly, 53 (2), 495-518.
  Laleh Khalili (2011) Gendered Practices of Counterinsurgency. Review of International Studies 37, pp. 1471–1491.
  Akanksha Mehta (2015) The aesthetics of “everyday” violence: narratives of violence and Hindu right-wing women. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 8(3), pp.416-438.
  Laura Sjoberg and Caron Gentry (2015) Beyond mothers, monsters, whores : thinking about women's violence in global politics. London: Zed Books. Ebook available at QMUL Library.
  Cynthia Enloe (2016) Globalization and militarism: Feminists make the link. London: Rowman & Littlefield.
  Svetalana Alexievich (2017) The Unwomanly Face of War. London: Penguin Classics.
  Marcela Perelman and Veronica Torras (2017) The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo: "We were born on the march”, OpenDemocracy.
  
  Marsha Henry (2017) Problematizing military masculinity, intersectionality and male vulnerability in feminist critical military studies. Critical Military Studies 3(2), pp. 182-199.
  Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberly Hutchings (2020) "The Politicisation of Violence," in Violence and political theory. Cambridge, Polity Press, pp. 152-175.
  Mary Hawkesworth (2020) Visibility politics: Theorizing racialized gendering, homosociality, and the feminicidal state. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45(2), pp. 311-319.
  Mecan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner (2023) "Militarism and Security," in Laura J. Shepherd and Caitlin Hamilton (Eds.) Gender matters in global politics : a feminist introduction to international relations, Routledge. Ebook available via QMUL Library.
  Mulu Halasa (Ed.) (2023) Woman Life Freedom : Voices and Art from the Women's Protests in Iran. Saqi Books. Ebook available via QMUL Library.
  You may also want to have a look at a Special Issue in the International Feminist Journal of Politics (2012), volume 14, Issue 4 on Rethinking Masculinity and Practices of Violence in Conflict Settings.
- Select activity Gendered Violence and Feminist Revolution in the Arab World
  
  Gendered Violence and Feminist Revolution in the Arab World URL
  
  An EUME Berliner Seminar talk (28 October 2020).
  Lamia Moghnieh in conversation with Razan Ghazzawi (University of Sussex), Dina Wahba (Freie Universität Berlin) and Himmat Zoubi (EUME Fellow 2018-21).

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Topic 9 - Violence

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TOPIC 9 - Overview

TOPIC 9 - Overview

TOPIC 9 - Supplementary Reading