Boesten, J and Wilding, P (2015) Transformative gender justice: setting an agenda. Women's Studies International Forum, 51. pp. 75-80. ISSN 0277-5395
Abstract
Much of women’s experiences during and following periods of extensive violence are informed by pre-existing, peacetime, inequalities. The specific gendered harms suffered by women, such as sexual violence and exploitation, are grounded in understandings of gendered roles in society and the perceived links between reproduction and community. Thus, as the growing body of feminist research into processes of transitional justice show, women have vital stakes in post-conflict transformation, rather than reconstruction (Chinking and Charlesworth 2006 cited in Reilly 2007, Ní Aoláin 2012). Likewise, the (often far less visible) expectation that women sustain their caring roles in the everyday of war – providing food, shelter, and care for dependents, or soldiers, in often desperate contexts – constitutes specifically gendered experiences associated with existing inequalities and expectations (Reilly 2007). With this knowledge in mind, it is increasingly obvious that for women periods of societal transition have to aim for the transformation of the underlying inequalities that provided the conditions in which these specifically gendered harms were possible.
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Keywords: | Transformative justice; transitional justice; conflict; feminism; gendered inequalities; violence |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2015 12:51 |
Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2016 21:18 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2014.11.001 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.wsif.2014.11.001 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:81791 |