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Cogs in the wheel? women in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eela / Alison, Miranda

Winter 2003 Journal Article

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2003.

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This article examines women's involvement as combatants in the Sri Lankan Tamil guerrilla organisation the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). It addresses women's motivations for choosing to join the organisation, then examines the debate over the LTTE's brand of nationalist feminism before looking at how women's experiences in the movement have affected their views on gender in society. The article hopes to shed some light on the feminist debate about these women, and through this on the broader global feminist debate about women's roles in nationalism and war. The article argues for an analysis of women's involvement in the movement that accords the women agency and is open to certain positive results stemming from their participation, yet recognises the problematic nature of nationalist feminism

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Nationalism ; LTTE ; Ethnic Conflict ; Sri Lanka ; Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

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ID: 077304

Wartime sexual violence: women's human rights and questions of masculinity / Alison, Miranda

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2007.

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This article examines wartime sexual violence, one of the most recurring wartime human rights abuses. It asserts that our theorisations need further development, particularly in regard to the way that masculinities and the intersections with constructions of ethnicity feature in wartime sexual violence. The article also argues that although women and girls are the predominant victims of sexual violence and men and boys the predominant agents, we must also be able to account for the presence of male victims and female agents. This, however, engenders a problem; much of the women's human rights discourse and existing international mechanisms for addressing wartime sexual violence tend to reify the male-perpetrator/female-victim paradigm. This is a problem which feminist human rights theorists and activists need to address.

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Ethnicity ; Human Rights

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ID: 058802

Women as agents of political violence: gendering security / Alison, Miranda

Dec 2004

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Dec 2004.

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Ethnicity ; Conflict ; Violence ; Security ; Gender

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