To woefully use a cliché:'We've come a long way baby.'Twelve years ago what literature
existed on women's involvement in political and criminal violences denied or seriously …

Feminist studies have rejected the assumption according to which gender violence is an
individual or private issue that has to be primarily approached from a psychological …

The public/private divide assumes that men are the (public sphere) actors gendered toward
the possibility of violent action, specifically as soldiers, combatants, guerrillas, or …

A major accomplishment of women's rights scholars and activists has been to make violence
against women (VAW) visible. After decades of struggle, in a dramatic turn, VAW has …

MOST PEOPLE EXPERIENCE life as more or less continuous without breaking it up into
categories of gender, class or race but that doesn't mean we can't understand oppression …

Violence against women is considered a systemic social practice. Aware of the presence of
systemic violence “at the horizon of social imagination,” members of some groups, women in …

The acute sensitivity of feminism to violence, in its many different forms and contexts, makes
it a particularly interesting case for the examination of the relationship between politics and …

In this chapter, the author aims to combine feminist security studies with feminist research on
violence in order to deepen understandings of how gender and agency can be understood …

By using a poststructuralist feminist perspective, this thesis argues that representations of
female agency in political violence are told as stories of heroines, monsters and victims …

An urgent corrective to the erasure of the female fighter from narratives on gender and
power, demanding that we see all women as political actors.“Violence, for me, and for the …