Overview
- Discusses the relationship between gender and humanitarian discourses and practices in the twentieth century
- Analyses the ways in which constructions, norms and ideologies of gender both shaped and were shaped in global humanitarian contexts
- Combines state and non-state humanitarian initiatives and scrutinizes their gendered dimension on local, regional, national and global scales
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series (PMSTH)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Masculinities and Femininities in Humanitarian Practice and Discourse
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Gender and the Politics of Humanitarianism
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The Power of Gendered Representations
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About this book
- Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History and ARC Kathleen Laureate Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia
This volume discusses the relationship between gender and humanitarian discourses and practices in the twentieth century. It analyses the ways in which constructions, norms and ideologies of gender both shaped and were shaped in global humanitarian contexts. The individual chapters present issues such as post-genocide relief and rehabilitation, humanitarian careers and subjectivities, medical assistance, community aid, child welfare and child soldiering. They give prominence to thebeneficiaries of aid and their use of humanitarian resources, organizations and structures by investigating the effects of humanitarian activities on gender relations in the respective societies. Approaching humanitarianism as a global phenomenon, the volume considers actors and theoretical positions from the global North and South (from Europe to the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and South East Asia as well as North America). It combines state and non-state humanitarian initiatives and scrutinizes their gendered dimension on local, regional, national and global scales. Focusing on the time between the late nineteenth century and the post-Cold War era, the volume concentrates on a period that not only witnessed a major expansion of humanitarian action worldwide but also saw fundamental changes in gender relations and the gradual emergence of gender-sensitive policies in humanitarian organizations in many Western and non-Western settings.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Johannes Paulmann is Director of the Leibniz Institute of European History at Mainz, Germany.
Katharina Stornig is Junior Professor of Cultural History at the University of Giessen, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gendering Global Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century
Book Subtitle: Practice, Politics and the Power of Representation
Editors: Esther Möller, Johannes Paulmann, Katharina Stornig
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44630-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44629-1Published: 25 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44632-1Published: 25 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44630-7Published: 24 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6273
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6281
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 331
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Gender Studies, Social History, History of Medicine