Description
Rendering the suffering of the marginalized visible has been an important aspect of feminist sociological studies of health, illness and medicine, with the subjective experience of those without access to institutional power being at the forefront of the research. This volume analyzes the links between the suffering caused by the intentional violence of war and the unintentional suffering engendered by modern medicinal processes. By establishing a fitting tribute to the academic and campaigning work of Meg Stacey, Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health responds to her challenge of ’why medical sociology had not yet turned its gaze upon the health consequences of war’. A selection of international case studies are used to create a volume of significant interest to sociologists and those working in the fields of anthropology, social policy, social work, peace, war and security studies, and international development.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Hannah Bradby, Gillian Lewando Hundt; Chapter 1 Feminist Antimilitarism: Scope, Problematic and Difficulties in a Potential Global Social Movement, Cynthia Cockburn; Chapter 2 Wounds and ‘Cures’ in South Asian Gender and Memory Politics, Srila Roy; Chapter 3 Sociological Perspectives on Defining and Accounting for Violence: Towards Gendering the Conflict in Northern Ireland, Linda McKie, Chris Yuill; Chapter 4 Women War Survivors in Uganda: Resilience and Suffering as Consequences of War, Helen Liebling-Kalifani; Chapter 5 Concealing Violence Against Women in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps: The Politicisation of Victimhood, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh; Chapter 6 Scribing Dhamal (Chaos): Moral and Ethical Dilemmas of Working in Areas of Violence, Rubina Jasani; Chapter 7 Identifying the ‘Resilience Factor’: An Emerging Counter Narrative to the Traditional Discourse of ‘Vulnerability’ in ‘Social Suffering’, Astier M. Almedom, Evelyn A. Brensinger, Gordon M. Adam; Chapter 8 Vision of a Peaceable Life, Parita Mukta;
