Gender and conflict :  embodiments, discourses and symbolic practices / 
edited by Georg Frerks, Annelou Ypeij and Reinhilde Sotiria König. 
 - Farnham, Surrey, UK :  Burlington, VT,  2014. 
 - ix, 255 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Gender in a global/local world .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Rethinking gender and conflict : discourses, embodiments and symbolic practices / Georg Frerks, Reinhilde Sotiria König and Annelou Ypeij -- Oral histories of gender in flux : challenging popular perceptions about the state of gender in South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo / Theo Hollander -- Making uncertain manhood : masculinities, embodiment and agency among male Hamas youth / Maria Frederika Malmström -- Women's violence and gender relations in the Israeli Defence Forces / Ilaria Simonetti -- Between agency and subjugation : female ltte combatants in the Sri Lankan conflict and post-war situation / Georg Frerks -- Fighting over a public toilet : masculinities, class and violence in a Nairobi ghetto / Naomi van Stapele -- "The colonized bodies of our women" : imaginative and material terrains of US military entertainment on the fringes of South Korea / Elisabeth Schober -- The prisoner's body : violence, desire, and masculinities in a Nicaraguan prison theater group / Julienne Weegels -- Being carried out : women's bodies, prototypical masculinity and social hierarchy inside and outside the Capoeira Ring / Menara Guizardi and Annelou Ypeij -- "You could be surprised how sweet and caring some guys are" : writings about sexuality, romance and conflict in a school setting in Malta / Joanne Cassar -- Just words under the wall : a peace building experience in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Patrizia Violi. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781409464853 (hardback : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014005717 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Violence.<br/>Women--Violence against.<br/>Masculinity.<br/>Social conflict.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM886  / .G44 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.6