1st Edition

Women, War, Violence and Learning

Edited By Shahrzad Mojab Copyright 2010
168 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

This anthology provides fresh theorization of gendered dimensions of learning, war, and violence, with a view to offering new insights on the impact of violence on women’s learning and well being. The collection is an important contribution to emerging interdisciplinary approaches to the role and effectiveness of civil society, especially women’s NGOs, working in war and post-conflict zones,... Read more

1. Introduction: Women, War, and Learning Shahrzad Mojab  2. The Pitfalls of a ‘Democracy Promotion’ Project for Women of Iraq Nadeen El-Kassem  3. Women and Learning in the Iraqi War Zone  Haifa Zangana  4. The Gendered Nature of Education under Siege: A Palestinian Feminist Perspective Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian  5. State Terror and Violence as a Process of Lifelong Teaching–Learning: The Case of Guatemala Egla Martinez Salazar  6. Gender, Culture and Learning: Iranian Immigrant Women in Canadian Higher Education Shiva Sadeghi  7. Prison Violence and Learning: The Survival and Resistance of Iranian Women Bethany Osborne  8. War, Trauma and Learning Pat Durish

Biography

Shahrzad Mojab is an academic-activist, teaching at the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She is the editor of Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds and the co-editor of Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism and Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges.