The Gender Imperative: Human Security vs State Security [Paperback]

This collection of essays by feminist scholar-activists addresses the crucial problem of human security in a world of heavily armed, militarized states. It describes the gendered aspects of human security excluded from the realist militarism that dominates current security policy in most nation states. The book deepens and broadens current security discourses, encouraging serious consideration of alternatives to the present global security system that functions to advantage state security over human security, a system the contributors perceive to be rooted in the patriarchal nature of the nation state.

This second edition will be of interest to academics and students of gender studies, womens studies, international studies, development studies, human rights, security studies, peace studies and peace education.

List of Contributors. Foreword. Introduction: Challenging Patriarchal Violence Section 1. Confronting the Militarized State Security Paradigm: Human Security from a Feminist Perspective 1. Women and Human Security: A Feminist Framework and Critique of the Prevailing Patriarchal Security System 2. Gendered Insecurity under Long-term Military Presence: The Case of Okinawa 3. Human Security and Layers of Oppression: Women in South Africa Section 2. Patriarchal Conditioning to Violence and Human Insecurity 4. Challenging the Patriarchal National Security Paradigm: The Role of Ethiopian Women in Peace and Security 5. War and Armed Conflict: Threat to African Womens Human Security 6. Sexual Violence and Genocide, the Greatest Violation of Human Security: Responses to the Case of Darfur 7. Security Discourses: A Gender Perspective Section 3. Militarization/Demilitarization: Eroding and Promoting Human Security 8. Seeking Human Security in a Militarized Pacific: Struggles for Peace and Security by Pacific Island Women 9. EducalãX