Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals

Cohn, Carol

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“…Feminist scholars looking at in bello targeting decisions have long been critical of the tendency for decision-makers to use the rule-like quality of just war theorizing to abstract 'civilians' to numbers (for example, Cohn, 1987Cohn, , 1993, symbols (for example, Young, 2003;Sjoberg and Peet, 2011) and significations (for example, Sjoberg, 2013). The construction of alternative discourses of war based on the witness of the other conceptualizes (not just 'our' but all) victimhood in war(s) as lived experience -which forces humanization and corrects the artificial removal of emotion from ethical and strategic discussions wartime targeting.…”

Section: Rethinking Justice In/of War Through Gendered Lensesmentioning

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Witnessing the protection racket: Rethinking justice in/of wars through gender lenses

Sjoberg

2016

Int Polit

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Using as a starting point both feminist critiques of just war theorizing and feminist reconstructions of traditional theoretical approaches to the concept, causes and consequences of war(s), this article looks to outline a feminist approach to re-theorizing war ethics that explicitly accounts for and rejects the current gender biases it creates and reifies. It begins by suggesting that the just war tradition is conceptually and empirically inseparable from gendered notions of warfare, which are gender security and to securitize gender. Therefore, it suggests, war ethics through gender lenses need to be rebuilt from the ground up, paying attention to the heretofore gendered nature not only of war ethics, but also of war justificatory narratives, war practices and war experiences.The article suggests a dialectical hermeneutic framework for feminist war ethics as a basis for theorizing forward from the longstanding feminist recognition that the very concept of warfare is gendered, relying on Robin Schott's (2008) work on witness as a theoretical basis. After outlining this approach generally, the article concludes by sketching out an example of the potential for a feminist approach to war ethics in action, examining the use whole-body image scanners in airport security assemblages. International Politics (2016) 53, 361-384. doi:10.1057/ip.2016.5; published online 11 March 2016Keywords: gender; just war theory; international security; airport security; queer theory; cisprivilege In front of me in line in US customs in August after a long trans-Atlantic flight was someone whose 'papers' did not 'match' their 'correct' sex on their 'ID'. The agent commented loudly that the person must be a gay man to wear a skirt. The woman, clearly tired and scared, was trying desperately to explain -showing a valid US passport, discussing gender transition, and even trying to show likeness to the picture. The account was uncompelling, apparently, though, and I heard the agent identify her as a 'mismatch' and a 'behavior' flag. As they took her away to the mythological small room for questioning, the person was shaking, and clearly about to cry. I quietly checked

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Section: Rethinking Justice In/of War Through Gendered Lensesmentioning

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Witnessing the protection racket: Rethinking justice in/of wars through gender lenses

Sjoberg

2016

Int Polit

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“…A substantial body of feminist writing examines women's experiences of conflict and the gendered nature of mainstream war and security paradigms (Cohn 1987, Yuval Davis 1997, Enloe 1990). In addition, a sizeable literature in comparative politics focuses on the role of women and gender relations in transitions from authoritarian to democratic regimes (Alvarez 1990, Waylen 2000.…”

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Seeking gender justice in post-conflict transitions: towards a transformative women’s human rights approach

Reilly

2007

International Journal of Law in Context

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This article critically examines the prospects for achieving a comprehensive vision of gender justice in post-conflict transitional contexts. It is divided into three main sections. The first reviews the gendered limits of mainstream approaches to transitional justice and highlights gender biases in related dominant discourses, which shape how conflict, and transitions from conflict, are understood and enacted to the detriment of women. The second focuses on the benefits and limitations of engendering wartime criminal justice with particular reference to the International Criminal Court. The third considers the prospects for a more comprehensive approach to gender justice that shifts the emphasis from ‘women as victims’ of conflict to women as agents of transformation, through an examination of the significance of Security Council Resolution 1325. Ultimately, the author argues that achieving gender justice in transitions is inextricably tied to wider bottom-up efforts by women’s movements to realise a comprehensive vision of women’s human rights within a framework of critically-interpreted, universal, indivisible human rights.

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“…Feminists hold that international relations are constructed by gender, but in a way that devalues "femininity" and marginalizes women. For example, feminists observe that international politics is constructed as a man's world not only because those who engage in international politics are mostly men, but also because "masculinity" serves as a norm for the international behavior of states (Beckman and D'Amico 1994;Cohn 1987;Elshtain 1997;Grant 1991;Tickner 1991;. As J.…”

Section: Women and Foreign Policymentioning

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The Discursive Construction of Japanese Identity and its Haunting Others

Yamada¹

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Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals

Cited by 923 publications

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Witnessing the protection racket: Rethinking justice in/of wars through gender lenses

Witnessing the protection racket: Rethinking justice in/of wars through gender lenses

Seeking gender justice in post-conflict transitions: towards a transformative women’s human rights approach

The Discursive Construction of Japanese Identity and its Haunting Others

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