Violence Against Women in Peace and War: Cases from the Middle East (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498598859)

Violence Against Women in Peace and War: Cases from the Middle East explores violence against women in the Middle East. Through a narrative research approach, Maria Holt compares a range of settings and experiences, arguing that (1) violence against women tends to increase during periods of conflict; (2) such practices are legitimized by an already existing environment in which violence against women is tolerated; (3) women are building strategies, both at local and regional levels, to combat and eliminate violence, thus enabling them to play a more constructive role in processes of conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction; and (4) the greater the commitment by public authorities to creating sound local frameworks to address violence against women the stronger will be Arab women's ability to resist conflict.

Author: Maria Holt
ISBN-10: 1498598854
ISBN-13: 9781498598859
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2021
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2022

About the Author
Maria Holt is reader in politics at the University of Westminister.