Gender Inclusive offers a challenging and unconventional reinterpretation of gender and mass violence.
Compiling essays and excerpts drawn from nearly two decades of Adam Jones's writing on gender and politics, this stimulating and diverse collection of essays explores vital issues surrounding 'gendercide' (gender-selective mass killing) including:
How gender shapes men and women as victims and perpetrators of mass violence, including genocide.
The range of gender-selective atrocities inflicted upon males,...
Gender Inclusive offers a challenging and unconventional reinterpretation of gender and mass violence.
8th May 1945 - VE Day - was Anneliese Wiemer's twenty-second birthday. Although she did not know it then, it marked the end of her flight to the West, and the start of a new life in England. These illustrated memoirs, based on a diary kept during the Third Reich and letters rediscovered many decades later, depict the momentous changes occurring in Europe against a backcloth of everyday farm life in East Prussia (now the north-western corner of Russia, sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland). The political developments of the 1930s (including the Hitler Youth, 'Kristallnacht', political...
8th May 1945 - VE Day - was Anneliese Wiemer's twenty-second birthday. Although she did not know it then, it marked the end of her flight to the West,...
Genocide studies is a relatively new field of comparative inquiry, but recent years have seen an increasing range of themes and subject-matter being addressed that reflect a variety of features of the field and transformations within it. This edited book brings together established scholars with rising stars and seeks to capture the range of new approaches, theories, and case studies in the field.
The book is divided into three broad sections:
Section I focuses on broad theories of comparative genocide, covering a number of different perspectives....
Genocide studies is a relatively new field of comparative inquiry, but recent years have seen an increasing range of themes and subject-matter bein...
Barbot was a commercial agent on French slave-trading voyages to West Africa. His account of the Guinea coast was based partly on his journals and partly on previous printed sources; it had considerable influence on later Europeanattitudes to Black Africa and the Atlantic slave trade, and is frequently cited as evidence on both subjects.
Barbot was a commercial agent on French slave-trading voyages to West Africa. His account of the Guinea coast was based partly on his journals and par...
