War through intersectional lens : female combatants and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal / Keshab Giri.
| Author/creator | Giri, Keshab author |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 157 pages 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Understanding war through an intersectional lens |
| Portion of title | Female combatants and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal |
| Series | Oxford studies in gender and international relations |
| Contents | Women and war : the turn to the everyday -- Male researcher doing feminist fieldwork in the Global South -- Why women rebelled in Nepal? Narratives of mobilization -- Intersectionality and the temporality of violence : female combatants during and after the war -- The politicization of the private sphere : the governance of marriage and sexuality during and after the war. |
| Abstract | "The exponential growth in literature on female combatants in rebel groups so far has explored 'why' women rebel, 'where' women rebel, and 'when' women rebel. Yet, existing literature largely assume women combatants as homogenous universal category having similar experiences of war and 'post-war'. In this milieu, this book focuses on 'how' women rebel given their multiple intersecting identities and social subjectivities. It looks how female combatants experience war and 'post-war' both in public and private spheres by using intersectionality both as a theoretical framework and methodological tool inspired by feminist research methodology to explore complex experiences of women combatants during and after the war. This book is based on thirty-nine in-depth interviews with Maoist female ex-combatants, their leaders, and experts in Nepal between 2017 and 2018 complemented by wide-ranging primary and secondary sources, such as key Maoist statements and policy documents from the war era, women ex-combatants' memoires, media sources, and academic literature. The book finds that female combatants' experiences of war and 'post-war', both in public and private spheres, are conditioned by their interlocking systems of oppression and identities such as class, caste, ethnicity, social status, educational status, and geographical location. The book makes an important contribution to the feminist IR literature, feminist security studies, and has significant policy implications, particularly concerning reintegration of female combatants, peacebuilding, and Women Peace and Security agenda"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-154) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Giri, Keshab Understanding war through intersectional lens New York: Oxford University Press, 2025 9780197758137 9780197758120 9780197758106 |
| LCCN | 2024056747 |
| ISBN | 9780197758106 |
| ISBN | 019775810X |
| ISBN | epub |
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