Human Insecurity: Global Structures of ViolenceBloomsbury Academic, 2008 - 208 pages Human Insecurity is concerned with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths of women and children each year. Those missing millions are rarely the subject of conventional security studies, yet such avoidable deaths are a vital part of the notion of 'security' more broadly understood. The book argues that such deaths are caused by the man-made structures of neoliberalism and 'andrarchy' and argues that the debate on human security can be reinvigorated by looking at the unarmed, civilian role in causing the deaths of millions of innocent people; from child deaths from preventable disease to honour killings. |
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... sexual harassment , pornography , and physical abuse of women and children are all different expressions of male sexual violence rather than discrete , disconnected issues ... The notion of a continuum ... facili- tates the analysis of ...
... sexual partners prior to early marriage . Contemporaneously , the notion of a woman's ' virtue ' is still , to some degree , measured by her sexual abstinence . Women who take ' too many ' sexual partners may be vilified in language ...
... sexual organs , healthy or otherwise . It is not comparable with male circumcision , which has negligible impact on male sexual enjoyment ; it is normally explained in terms of hygiene . When performed on women , FGM includes removal of ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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