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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
"As a whole, the book has four major strengths. First, its focus on agency adds balance to a debate that has been biased towards deterministic understandings of how gender affects war and international military interventions. Second, its attention
to complexity, highlighting the tensions and contradictions of gendered identities, adds to our knowledge of the variety of strategies through which masculinity is constructed, reasserted and transformed. Third, its reference to context and intersectionality is a reminder of the historicity of gender, thus strengthening our ability to avoid reified and essentialist visions of gendered social practice. Finally, the book explores, froma new angle, the British contribution to the interventions in Iraq and
Afghanistan, and, as such, it is innovative from an empirical perspective [...] A valuable and thoughtful contribution for understanding the way gender affects the social, cultural and organizational contexts of security." - International Peacekeeping
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Claire Duncanson
About the author
Claire Duncanson is a Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research and teaching is focused at the intersection of international security, international development and gender politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Forces for Good?
Book Subtitle: Military Masculinities and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan and Iraq
Authors: Claire Duncanson
Series Title: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137319425
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-28226-1Published: 27 June 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32817-8Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31942-5Published: 27 June 2013
Series ISSN: 1759-3735
Series E-ISSN: 2752-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 193
Topics: Political Science, Gender Studies, Conflict Studies, Middle Eastern Politics, British Politics, International Relations