Women’s Perspectives on Human Security: Violence, Environment, and Sustainability

Authors

Richard Matthew
Patricia A, Weitsman
Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv
Nora Davis
Tera Dornfeld

Files

Series

Series in Human Security

Description

Violent conflict, climate change, and poverty present distinct threats to women worldwide. Importantly, women are leading the way creating and sharing sustainable solutions.

Women’s security is a valuable analytical tool as well as a political agenda insofar as it addresses the specific problems affecting women’s ability to live dignified, free, and secure lives. First, this collection focuses on how conflict impacts women’s lives and well-being, including rape and gendered constructions of ethnicity, race, and religion. The book’s second section looks beyond the scope of large-scale violence to examine human security in terms of environmental policy, food, water, health, and economics.

Multidisciplinary in scope, these essays from new and established contributors draw from gender studies, international relations, criminology, political science, economics, sociology, biological and ecological sciences, and planning.

Language

eng

ISBN

9780821446997

Publication Date

2020

Publisher

Ohio University Press

City

Athens

Keywords

human security, conflict, grass-roots, gender, environmental policy, women and girls, international relations, feminist, citizen science, military, suicide, terror, small arms, economic security

Disciplines

Environmental Studies | Peace and Conflict Studies | Women's Studies

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Matthew, Richard; Weitsman, Patricia A,; Hoogensen Gjørv, Gunhild; Davis, Nora; and Dornfeld, Tera, "Women’s Perspectives on Human Security: Violence, Environment, and Sustainability" (2020). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 21.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/21