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Contents

List of Acronyms

PART ONE: RETHEORIZING HUMAN SECURITY THROUGH A GENDER LENS

1. Toward a Gender Perspective on Human Security

2. What Does Postconflict Security Mean for Women?

3. Gendering Insecurities, Informalization, and “War Economies”

PART TWO: CASE STUDIES OF GENDERED VIOLENCE IN A CONTEXT OF BROADER INSECURITIES

4. Securitizing Sex, Bodies, and Borders: The Resonance of Human Security Frames in Thailand’s “War against Human Trafficking”

5. Work and Love in the Gendered U.S. Insecurity State

6. A Struggle for Rites: Masculinity, Violence, and Livelihoods in Karamoja, Uganda

7. From German Bus Stop to Academy Award Nomination: The Honor Killing as Simulacrum

PART THREE: POLICY CONSIDERATIONS FOR REDUCING VIOLENCE AND INCREASING HUMAN SECURITY

8. Feminist Collaboration with the State in Response to Sexual Violence: Lessons from the American Experience

9. The Vulnerable Protecting the Vulnerable: NGOs and Human Security in the Aftermath of War

10. Violence against Women, Human Security, and Human Rights of Women and Girls: Reinforced Obligations in the Context of Structural Vulnerability

11. Integrating Gender into Human Security: Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

PART FOUR: CONCLUSION

12. The Discursive Politics of Gendering Human Security: Beyond the Binaries

About the Contributors

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