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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... women has been so powerful that women feel they deserve abuse and [ they ] consent to subservient roles ' . She adds that ' in a familial setting , [ women ] also " consent " to perpetrating violence against other women ' . Often ...
... women a year . Roughly 98 per cent of Somali women are ' cut ' and the practice occurs in states with claims to democratic values such as Egypt , Nigeria , and the Gambia ( UNICEF 1996 : 1 ) . A demographic survey in Egypt revealed that ...
... women , and women's projection of male violence on to other women . Howland argues that it will continue with impunity if international legislation does not accept ' a woman's right to control her sexuality and her reproductive capacity ...
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Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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