Gender, Power, and Military Occupations : Asia Pacific and the Middle East since 1945

ISBN-13: 9780415891837 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 254 str.

Rowena Ward; Christine De Matos

Opis

While research in this area has begun to grow since events in Iraq and Afghanistan, this collection helps redress the relative neglect by examining and analysing the impact of occupation on men and women, both occupied and occupier, in a variety of geographical spaces from Japan to Palestine to Iraq.

Spis treści

1. Analyzing Gendered Occupation Power Christine de Matos and Rowena Ward   Part I: Asia and the Pacific  2. Occupation Masculinities: The Residues of Colonial Power in Australian Occupied Japan Christine de Matos  3. Encountering National and Gendered Selves: Identity Formation of Okinawan Students in the United States during the US Occupation of Okinawa Kinuko Maehara Yamazato  4. Histories of Violence: Occupation, Resistance and Masculinities in Timor Leste Henri Myrttinen  5. Lily Pads and Leisure Meccas: The Gendered Political Economy of Post-Base and Post-9/11 Philippines Bronwyn Winter  6. Chamorro Warriors and Godmothers Meet Uncle Sam: Gender, Loyalty and Resistance to US Military Occupation in Postwar Guam Miyume Tanji  7. The Northern Territory Intervention in Australia: A Grassroots Perspective Miliwanga Sandy and Kathleen Clapham  Part II: South Asia and the Middle East  8. Caught between Cultures: How the Occupation of Iraq Is Reinforcing and Redefining Gender Roles Marcus Schulzke  9. The People Follow the Mullah, and the Mullah Follows the People: Politics of Aid and Gender in Afghanistan post-2001 Joyce Wu  10. Abu Ghraib: A Ghostly Story Stefka Hristova  11. The National Struggle and Women’s Rights: The Case of Palestine Rose Shomali Musleh  12. This Garden Uprooted: Gendered violence, Suffering and Resistance in Indian-Administered Kashmir Shubh Mathur  13. Forced Encounters and Gendered Impacts: Past, Present and Future Keiko Tamura  Notes on Contributors  Notes  Index

O autorze

Christine de Matos is a Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her recent publications include Occupying the ‘Other’: Australia and military occupations from Japan to Iraq (co-edited with Robin Gerster, 2009), and Love under occupation: A personal journey through war, marriage and White Australia (co-authored with Noel Huggett 2010). Rowena Ward is a Lecturer in Japanese at the University of Wollongong. Her research interests include labor migration, internment and repatriation. Rowena is presently researching the internment in Australia of Japanese residents of British and French colonies in the South Pacific between 1942 and 1946.