Violent conflict, climate change, and poverty present distinct threats to women worldwide. Importantly, women are leading the way creating and sharing sustainable solutions.
Women's security is a valuable analytical tool as well as a political agenda insofar as it addresses the specific problems affecting women's ability to live dignified, free, and secure lives. First, this collection focuses on how conflict impacts women's lives and well-being, including rape and gendered constructions of ethnicity, race, and religion. The book's second section looks beyond the scope of large-scale violence to examine human security in terms of environmental policy, food, water, health, and economics.
Multidisciplinary in scope, these essays from new and established contributors draw from gender studies, international relations, criminology, political science, economics, sociology, biological and ecological sciences, and planning.

This multidisciplinary collection examines women's security threats stemming from conflict, environmental policy, and economic limitations, as well as the growing repertoire of grass-roots solutions women are creating, demanding, and sharing throughout the world to increase their security.

About the Author
Richard A. Matthew is associate dean of research and international programs and professor of urban planning and public policy in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. The late Patricia A. Weitsman was professor of political science and director of war and peace studies at Ohio University. Gunhild Hoogensen Gjorv is professor of peace and conflict studies at the Centre for Peace Studies, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Nora Davis is a researcher at the University of California, Irvine, School of Social Ecology. Tera Dornfeld received her PhD from the University of California, Irvine, School of Social Ecology and works on environmental advocacy and policy.


Book Information
ISBN 9780821424278
Author Richard Matthew
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Ohio University Press
Publisher Ohio University Press