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Periodical issue | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Militarism, conflict and women's activism |
Editors: | Mama, Amina Okazawa-Rey, Margo |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | Feminist Africa (ISSN 1726-460X) |
Issue: | 10 |
Pages: | 147 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Kenya Nigeria Rwanda |
Subjects: | violence militarism women |
External link: | https://feministafrica.net/feminist-africa-issue-10-2008-militarism-conflict-and-womens-activism/ |
Abstract: | This issue of 'Feminist Africa' is dedicated to critical feminist analysis of postcolonial Africa's most destructive scourge - militarism and violent conflict. The essays address a number of conflict and postconflict contexts, paying attention to women's experiences and highlighting the way that women have mobilized to survive, resist and challenge militarism in some of Africa's conflict-ridden zones. Rangira Béa Gallimore provides an analysis of Rwandan militarism in relation to ethnicity and sexual violence during the 1994 genocide. Muthoni Wanyeki considers women and the recent postelection violence in Kenya. Yaliwe Clarke draws on various African examples to examine whether security sector reform offers an opportunity to challenge aggressive modes of masculinity. Helen Scanlon examines the transitional justice institutions that have emerged in selected African countries. The links between militarism and economic globalization are brought to light in Sokari Ekine's discussion of women's responses to the conditions facing people of the Niger Delta (Nigeria). A standpoint section offers reflections of former Deputy Minister of Defence in South Africa, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge. The issue further contains interviews with Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff, member of the Sierra Leone Human Rights Commission, and Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng, Executive Director of the Kampala-based women's network Isis-Women's International Cross-Cultural Exchange (WICCE). [ASC Leiden abstract] |