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Bibliographies


Women and War

Middle East Context

Abu-Nasr, Julinda. 1996. "The Effects of War on Women in Lebanon." In Arab Women Between Defiance and Restraint. (ed). Suha Sabbah. New York: Olive Branch Press.

Accad, Evelyne. 1989. "Feminist perspectives on the war in Lebanon." In Women Studies International Forum 12(1): 91-95.

__________. 1991. "Sexuality and war: Literary masks of the Middle East." Journal of Women's History 2(3): 135-138.

__________. 1991. "Sexuality, war, and literature in Lebanon." Feminist Issues 11(2): 27-42.

Adnan, Etel. 1988. "Sitt Marie Rose (a Lebanese woman and the Lebanese civil war)." In Kinesis. June: 18.

Ameri, Anan. 1999. "Conflict in peace: Challenges confronting the Palestinian women's movement." In Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female 'Public' Space in Islam/ic Societies. (ed.) Asma Afsaruddin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Cooke, Miriam. 1994. "Arab women, Arab wars." In Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity and Power. (ed.) Fatima Gocek and Shiva Balaghi. New York: Columbia University Press.

__________. 1998. War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War. London: Cambridge University Press.

Dajani Souad. 1993. "Palestinian women under Israeli occupation." In Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers. (ed.) Judith Tucker. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Ghoussoub, M. 1998. Leaving Beirut: Women and the Wars Within. London: Saqi Books.

Holt, Maria. 1996. "Palestinian women and the Intifada: An exploration of images and realities." In Women and Politics in the Third World. (ed.) Haleh Afshar. New York: Routledge.

Iyad, Abu. Translation by Linda Butler Koseoglu. 1981. My Home, My Land: A Narrative of the Palestinian Struggle. New York: Times Books.

Jad, Islah. 1990. "From salons to the popular committees." In Intifada: Palestine at the Crossroads. (ed.) J. R. Nasser and R. Heacock. New York: Praeger.

__________. 1998. "Patterns of relations within the Palestinian family during the Intifada. In Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank. (ed.) Suha Sabbagh. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Karam, E.G. 1999. "Women and the Lebanon wars: Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder." In Women and War in Lebanon. (ed.) Lamia Rustum Shehadeh. Miami: University Press of Florida.

Karame, Kari H. 1995. "Girls participation in combat: A case study from Lebanon." In Children in the Muslim Middle East. (ed.) Elizabeth Fernea Warnock. Austin: University of Texas Press.

__________. 1999. "Mama Aida-A Lebanese godmother of the combatants." In Women and War in Lebanon. (ed.) Lamia Rustum Shehadeh. Miami: University Press of Florida.

Khweiri, Jocelyn. 1999. "From gunpowder to incense." In Women and War in Lebanon. (ed.) Lamia Rustum Shahadeh. Miami: University Press of Florida.

LaTeef, Neldo. 1997. Women of Lebanon: Interviews with Champions for Peace. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Lentin, Ronit. ed. 1997. Gender & Catastrophe. New York and London: Zed Books.

Mahalingam, Ravi.2004. "Women's Rights and the "War on Terror": Why the United States Should view the ratification of CEDAW as an important step in the conflict with militant Islamic fundamentalism." California Western International Law Journal 34(Spring): 171 - 209.

Makdisi, Jean Said. 1991. "Post-war, pre-what?" In Women's Review of Books 8(10/11): 8-9.

Makdisi, Jean. 1997. "Powerlessness and power: Women and the war in Lebanon." In Women: A Cultural Review 8(1): 89-91

Maksoud, Hala. 1996. "The case of Lebanon: Women and the civil war in Lebanon." In Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint. (ed.) Suha Sabbagh. New York: Olive Branch Press.

Peteet, Julie. 1991. Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement. New York: Columbia University Press.

__________. 1997. "Icons and militants: Mothering in the danger zone." in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 23(1): 103-129.

Rubenberg, Cheryl. 2001. Palestinian Women: Patriarchy and Resistance in the West Bank. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Sabbagh, Suha. 1996. "Lebanon's civil war through different eyes: An interview with Jean Makdisi." In Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint. (ed.) Suha Sabbagh. New York: Olive Branch Press.

Schulze, Kristen, Martin Stokes, and Colin Campbell. (Forthcoming). Communal Violence, Civil War and Foreign Occupation: Women in Lebanon

__________. 1998. "Communal Violence, Civil War and Foreign Occupation: Women in Lebanon." In Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Transition. (ed.) Rick Wilford and Robert Miller. London: Routledge.

Shahadeh, Lamia Rustum. ed. 1999. Women and War in Lebanon. Miami: University Press of Florida.

__________. 1999. "Women in the Lebanese militias." In Women and War in Lebanon. (ed.) Lamia Rustum Shahadeh. Miami: University Press of Florida.

UNIFEM.1998. Women's Land and Property Rights in Situations of Conflict and Reconstruction. New York: United Nations Development Fund for Women.

 

General

Adelson, Anne, Amina Sharif Hassan, and Safia Jowhar. 1999- 2000. "Enough is enough! Voice of Somali women for peace, reconciliation and political rights." In Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme 19(4): 132-136.

Cooke, Miriam and Angela Woollacott. 1993. Gendering War Talk. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Corrin, Chris. 2001. "Post-conflict reconstruction and gender analysis in Kosavo." In International Feminist Journal of Politics 3(1): 78-98.

Farha, Leilani. 1999-2000. "Contextualizing violence against women: Forced evictions in situations of armed conflict." In Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme 19(4): 71-76.

Farhood, Leila. 1999. "War, trauma and women: Predisposition and vulnerability to adverse psychological health outcomes." In Women and War in Lebanon. (ed.) Lamia Shehedeh. Miami: University Press of Florida.

Haas, Mary E. 1998. "Women and War." In Women in the Third World: An Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Issues. (eds.) Nelly P. Stromquist and Karen Monkman. New York: Garland Publishing Inc.

Hansen, Lene. 2001. "Gender, nation, rape: Bosnia and the construction of security." In International Feminist Journal of Politics 3(1): 55-75.

Hoffman, John. 2001. Gender and Sovereignty: Feminism, the State and International Relations. Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's.

Janzen, John M. and Reinhild Kauenhoven Janzen. 2000. Do I Still Have a Life? Voices form the Aftermath of War in Rwanda and Burundi. Lawrence, KS: Publications in Antrhopology, 20, University of Kansas.

Karam, Azza. 2001. "Women in war and peace-building: The roads traversed, the challenges ahead." In International Feminist Journal of Politics 3(1): 2-25.

Kumar, Krishna. ed. 2001. Women and Civil War: Impact, Organizations and Action. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Kwon, Insook. 2001. "A feminist exploration of military conscription." In International Feminist Journal of Politics 3(1): 26-54.

Lentin, Ronit. Ed. 1997. Gender & Catastrophe. New York and London: Zed Books Ltd.

Nikolic-Ristanovic, V. 1995. "Women, violence and war." In Wartime Victimization of Refugees in the Balkans. Budapest: Central European University Press.

Ranchod-Nilsson, Sita and Mary Ann Tetreault. 2000. Women, States, and Nationalism: At Home in the Nation? New York: Routledge.

Reardon, Betty A. 1985. Sexism and the War System. New York: Teacher's College Press.

Rehn, Elisabeth and Ellen, Johnson-Sirleaf. 2002.Women war peace - The Independent Experts Report. New York: United Nations Development Fund for Women.

Sered, Susan Starr. 2000. What Makes Women Sick? Maternity, Modesty and Militarism in Israeli Society. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press.

Sharpley-Whiting, D. & White, R. eds. 1997. Spoils of War: Women of Colour, Cultures and Revolutions. Oxford: Roman and Littlefield.

Simon, Rita James. 2001. Women in the Military. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Waller, Marguerite and Jennifer Rycenga. 2000. Frontline Feminisms: Women, War and Resistance. New York; London: Garland Publishing.

Yoshimi, Yoshioaki. 2000. Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military during World War II. New York: Columbia University Press.

 

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