| Weight | 0.43 kg |
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| ISBN | 8173047243 |
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| Publication Date | 2007 |
| Pages | 228 |
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| Author Description | Ava Darshan Shrestha (PhD) is working as a Social development/Gender Consultant in Nepal. She has worked for the government, United Nations agencies, bilateral agencies and several donors including the International Non-Governmental Organizations for the past two decades. She is also affiliated to many NGOs. Her research work primarily focuses on poverty, reproductive health, micro credit, employment and empowerment of women. More recently she has been researching on conflict/insurgency and its impact on women.RitaThapaa feminist activist is globally recognized for her ground-breaking work in founding Tewa, the Nepal Women’s Fund. Currently she is engaged in peace-building work primarily through Nagarik Aawaz which she helped found in 2001. Rita is former chair of the Board of the Global Fund for Women and is a current board member of the Urgent Action Fund. |
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THE IMPACT OF ARMED CONFLICTS ON WOMEN IN SOUTH ASIA
₨ 1,772
This book exposes the different ways in which violent conflicts increase patriarchal controls on women and the impact of militarization on women and men, on masculinities and femininities. In all the societies and communities under discussion in the five countries, the authors point to the different ways in which women react and respond to the conflict. They become victims of various acts of repression and abuse. The book exposes that even armed militant women choose to respond to violence with violence. On the other side militants mothers respond to violence with non-violent means of political agitation. The authors articulate a general position on the need to redefine democracy within the South Asian context, in a way which recognizes minority rights and acknowledges the nature of all South Asian states as multicultural and multinational. Within this overarching framework, the authors see women’s involvement in militancy and in peace building as enabling a new construction of democracy, human rights and citizenship. The need for a reconceptualization of security to mean human security and peace with justice, rights and equality is both advocated and emphasized. In this process, the authors address the need to begin to deconstruct the exercise of masculinity power in its different forms, especially as played out in war and conflict.
ISBN: 8173047243
Publisher: MANOHAR PUBLISHERS
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