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Women are less likely to report their stories concerning genocide because of
the division of labor, and roles in child rearing.
The only genocide course in the UK
Gender:
Politics
More than any other kind of human activity, politics has historically
borne an explicit masculine identity
It has been more exclusively limited to men than any other realm of
endeavor and has been more intensely, self-consciously masculine
than most other social practices.
o Wendy Brown
Female agency
Guatemala**
Masculinities
Patriarchy
is the center structure of focus in gender analysis.
Men as well as women are affected by patriarchy, albeit in different ways:
Its men who are recognized and claim a certain form of masculinity, for the
sake of being more valued, more serious, and the protectors of/and
controllers of thiose people who are less masculine.
Gender is a symbolic system
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In 1994 Rwanda, when women who perpetrated genocide they were not
following orders they were reshaping patriarchy.
Gender, security and IR
The men pretend that they are here to defend women and children. Then
as we join them in the fight, they whole thing becomes meaningless to
them.
The UN has been forced to use all female peace keepers in some situations
In a survey of conscripts, 50% answered that they did not thing women were
suitable to be conscripted.
Gender not viewed in essentialist terms.
Its a boy. The language of the bomb**
Fighter chicks
The dichotomies of protector protected, direct - indirect violence, war and
peace are interwoven (Peterson, 1992: 32)
War Babies
straight roles
Sexual Violence
Bodies as territories
War Fighter
Sexual violence
Mass rape
Pregnancy
Multiple sites of violence as rapes: audience of public and family
members or loved ones.
Sexual violence after war as men seek to reassert control over women
Men as victims of rape and sexual torture during war - little
publicized.