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Article: Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence. (Book Reviews).
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- Journal of Development Studies
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence. Edited by Caroline O.N. Moser and Fiona C. Clark. London and New York: Zed Books, 2001. [pounds sterling] and [pounds sterling]14.95/US$19.95. ISBN 1 85649 897 2 and 898 0
This volume arose out of a conference held at the World Bank in 1999, entitled 'Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence', to which the authors contributed. There are three introductory chapters, including a thoughtful one by Cynthia Cockburn, who suggests that if we wish to know the impact on women in conflict situations of their ascribed gender roles, then we need to 'Ask the women in question' (p.16). One of ...