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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... woman's ' hon- our ' from abuse by other men . In such a manner , a woman is deemed of sufficient ' virtue ' to be married to particular males . If the honour is in some way judged to be absent , she is a ' fallen woman ' and less suit ...
... woman who has breached a social norm of female sexuality or is merely under suspicion of acting as such ' ( 2002 : 8 ) . These codes of conduct do not emanate from nowhere ; they have been and are formulated and codified by men ...
... woman may take before marriage is unclear because of its subjective nature ; what matters as much in this context is that the same social ruling is not applied to men's sexual behaviour and a woman's security is established by social ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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