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2014
An ambitious analysis of the implications of globalism and cultural conflict on the battlefield of women’s bodies... Casual readers shouldn’t be dissuaded―Jacobson’s prose is accessible, and he has treated the complicated underpinnings of identity, cultural belonging, and economic motivations with respect. (Publishers Weekly) What Jacobson does beautifully in his accessibly academic book is differentiate between politicized Islamist patriarchy and 'the broader Muslim community,' the former being 'a core expression of a deeper global fissure,' he explains... As globalization improves the status of many women, it also incites a ferocious backlash against them. (Tracy Clark-Flory Salon.com) A veritable tour de force, a gripping narrative, a fun read and a scholarly analysis of sex, power, violence, and sublimation. (Subrata Mitra, Department of Political Science, and the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg) The breadth of engagement in terms of issues, space, time, geography, and history it traverses is the book's strength... With an accessible prose peppered with rich imagery, it has something to offer to every reader... (Shweta Majumdaradur, Gender and Society) Of Virgins and Martyrs cleverly written with exciting prose...Jacobson must be applauded for striking a balance between breadth and depth; the book takes readers across time and place in fairly effortless fashion, while providing specifics about various cultures, such as Cuba, the Netherlands, or Pakistan. (Candice D. Ortbals, Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review) A fascinating exploration of the ways in which improvements in women's lives in recent years have provoked a patriarchal backlash, sometimes with violent consequences. Jacobson shows that, while the resistance to women's emancipation comes frequently from Islamist sources, the real problem lies in the persistence of traditional masculine domination in certain areas of the world―especially the Middle East, North Africa, and the Indian subcontinent. Provocative and compelling. (John Torpey, CUNY Graduate Center)
New York University in Florence - Conference, 2017
This year, March Eighth, is lived as a moment of struggle, of becoming aware of a problem, not as a celebration with flowers and restaurant, because, in actual fact, the problems of half of the world's population, women, and personally I also include children, have not changed substantially. That is the reason why one will hear again words that have already been spoken, but, as the Romans said "repetita iuvant", repetition is useful. Explaining again what is not functioning is a way of educating and transmitting the awareness of that which is not correct, just or fair. I am an historian specialized in the study of Vatican-American diplomatic relations. I am also the organizer of an annual conference, now in its seventh year, entitled Women and Religions, Dialogue and Debate between the Humanities, Theology and Institutions. The title of this year's edition is: Ignorance, violence, discrimination: the signs of incivility.
2019
In this introductory article to the special issue Women and War in Kurdistan, we connect our topic to feminist theory, to anthropological theory on war and conflict and their long-term consequences, and to theory on gender, nation and (visual) representation. We investigate Kurdish women ́s victimisation and marginalisation, but also their resistance and agency as female combatants and women activists, their portrayal by media and scholars, and their selfrepresentation. We offer herewith a critical perspective on militarisation, women ́s liberation, and women ́s experiences in times of war and peace. We also introduce the five articles in this issue and discuss how they contribute to the study of women and war in two main areas: the widereaching effects of war on women’s lives, and the gendered representation and images of war in Kurdistan.
Women and Wars: Toward a Conceptual Framework
Women and Wars, 2012
This is a book about the relationships between women and wars: the impacts wars have on women, the ways women participate in wars, the varying political stances women take toward war, and the ways in which women work to build peace. There is an old story about war. It starts with war being conceived of as a quintessentially masculine realm: in it, it is men who make the decisions to go to war, men who do the planning, men who do the fi ghting and dying, men who protect their nation and their helpless women and children, and men who negotiate the peace, divide the spoils, and share power when war is over. In this story, women are sometimes present, but remain peripheral to the war itself. They raise sons they willingly sacrifi ce for their country, support their men, and mourn the dead. Sometimes they have to step in and take up the load their men put down when they went off to fi ght; they pick up the hoe, or work in a factory producing goods crucial to the war effort – but only as long as the men are away. To the men in battle, they symbolize the alternative – a place of love, caring, and domesticity, and indeed, all that is good about the nation which their heroic fi ghting protects. The gendered reality of war is far more complex than this old story portrays. War itself is more complexly gendered than this masculinized story allows, and women's role in and experience of war is far more integral and varied. In this book, we will show that one cannot understand either women's relation to war or war itself without understanding gender, and understanding the ways that war and gender are, in fact, mutually constitutive.
Stability: International Journal of Security and Development
This brief introduction to the special collection outlines the main features of new wars and discusses some of the conceptual thinking around gender in the context of new wars and how it relates to international frameworks, such as UN Security Council resolutions on Women, Peace and Security. It considers in particular different forms of women's participation and constructions of masculinities in new wars. This introduction argues that the binary narrative of gender has been damaging to both women and men and that the focus instead should be on understanding how subordinated populations are made vulnerable to the exercise and abuse of asymmetrical systems of power. To this end further academic research is urged.
Modern warfare disproportionally affects the lives of women and girls. Females experience armed conflict differently to men due to the gendered division of roles and responsibilities. Historically, direct combat involved participation exclusively by men, with civilians, comprising mainly of women and children, suffering due to displacement and direct targeting. As a result, women are frequently victims of gender-based violence, as well as torture, forced disappearance and murder. In modern conflicts however, women are not only victims but also perpetrators of violence; they take up arms and commit violent acts, either voluntarily or under duress. Women actively participate in organised rebellion and warfare in several societies with a history of violent extremism and domestic terrorism, transgressing traditional gender roles and altering gender relations. This paper will examine the motivation behind women's participation in warfare, violent extremism and acts of terrorism, and whether it differs to their male counterparts. Furthermore, it explores whether women's participation in armed conflict breaks down patriarchal systems and increases gender equality, are for pragmatic reasons, or a combination of both. Female combatants in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of Sri Lanka will be used to highlight the significant role of women in armed conflict.
This paper is a short summary of “Women Challenging Gender Norms and Patriarchal Values in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Across the South Caucasus”, a research report co-authored by Milena Abrahamyan, Parvana Mammadova and Sophio Tskhvariashvili and published in the Caucasus Edition: Journal of Conflict Transformation, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2018.