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Women, security, South Asia : a clearing in the thicket / editors, Farah Faizal, Swarna Rajagopalan.

Contributor(s): Faizal, Farah | Rajagopalan, Swarna, 1964-Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2005. Description: 215 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 0761933867 (hard back); 0761933875 (paper back); 8178295288 (India hbk.); 8178295296 (India pbk.)Subject(s): International relations -- Social aspects | Security, International -- Social aspects | Sex role -- South AsiaDDC classification: 303.4820820954 LOC classification: JZ1253.2 | .W67 2005Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
Women and security : in search of a new paradigm / Swarna Rajagopalan -- Societal insecurities : a Maldivian study / Farah Faizal -- In/security : Afghan women refugees / Saba Gul Khattak -- Silence and marginality : gendered security and the nation-state / Amena Mohsin -- Dying to be equal : women militants and organisational decision-making / Sudha Ramachandran -- Women taking the track two path / Ilmas Futehally -- In conclusion / Farah Faizal.
Review: "The contributors focus on specific issues and case studies which yield an understanding of security that is broad and inclusive - Bangladeshi women protecting their homes during the 1971 war; Maldivian women trying to secure themselves in a society where marriage and divorce are both easy; Afghan women grappling with survival issues in Peshawar's refugee camps; women militants in Sri Lanka; and peace activists on either side of the India-Pakistan border."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women and security : in search of a new paradigm / Swarna Rajagopalan -- Societal insecurities : a Maldivian study / Farah Faizal -- In/security : Afghan women refugees / Saba Gul Khattak -- Silence and marginality : gendered security and the nation-state / Amena Mohsin -- Dying to be equal : women militants and organisational decision-making / Sudha Ramachandran -- Women taking the track two path / Ilmas Futehally -- In conclusion / Farah Faizal.

"The contributors focus on specific issues and case studies which yield an understanding of security that is broad and inclusive - Bangladeshi women protecting their homes during the 1971 war; Maldivian women trying to secure themselves in a society where marriage and divorce are both easy; Afghan women grappling with survival issues in Peshawar's refugee camps; women militants in Sri Lanka; and peace activists on either side of the India-Pakistan border."--BOOK JACKET.

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