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7. Geographies of Violence: Women and Conflict in Ghana

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© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of Illustrations vii
  4. Acknowledgments ix
  5. Part I. Feminist Approaches to Gender and Conflict
  6. 1. Introduction: Gender and Conflict in a Global Context 3
  7. 2. The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace 24
  8. 3. The Sounds of Silence: Feminist Research across Time in Guatemala 45
  9. Part II. Violence against Women in War and Postwar Times
  10. 4. Like Oil and Water, with a Match: Militarized Commerce, Armed Conflict, and Human Security in Sudan 75
  11. 5. No “Safe Haven”: Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan 108
  12. 6. From Pillars of Yugoslavism to Targets of Violence: Interethnic Marriages in the Former Yugoslavia and Thereafter 134
  13. 7. Geographies of Violence: Women and Conflict in Ghana 152
  14. 8. Gender, the Nationalist Imagination, War, and Peace 170
  15. Part III. Feminist Analyses of International organizations and asylum
  16. 9. Refugee Camps as Conflict Zones: The Politics of Gender 193
  17. 10. The “Purity” of Displacement and the Reterritorialization of Longing: Muslim IDPs in Northwestern Sri Lanka 213
  18. 11. Escaping Conflict: Afghan Women in Transit 232
  19. 12. War, Flight, and Exile: Gendered Violence among Refugee Women from Post-Yugoslav States 249
  20. 13. The Gendered Impact of Multilateralism in the Post-Yugoslav States: Intervention, Reconstruction, and Globalization 273
  21. Part IV. Feminist Futures: Negotiating Globalization, Security, and Human Displacement
  22. 14. New Directions for Feminist Research and Politics 301
  23. References 317
  24. List of Contributors 347
  25. Index 353
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