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Gendercide and Genocide
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Gendercide and Genocide Hardback - 2004

by Adam Jones (Editor)

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The most wide-ranging book ever published on gender-selective mass killing, or "gendercide," this collection of essays is also the first to explore systematically the targeting of non-combatant "battle-age" males in various wartime and peacetime contexts.

Representing such fields as sociology, political science, psychology, queer studies, and human-rights activism, the contributors explore themes and issues outlined by editor Adam Jones in the book's opening essay. In that article, which provoked considerable debate when it was first published in 2000, Jones argues that throughout history and around the world, the population group most consistently targeted for mass killing and state-backed oppression are non-combatant men of roughly fifteen to fifty-five years of age. Such males, Jones contends, are typically seen as "the group posing the greatest danger to the conquering force." Jones's article also examines the use of "gendercidal institutions"--such as female infanticide, witch-hunts, military conscription, and forced labor--against both women and men.

The subsequent essays--some original, some drawn from a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research and other sources--expand, diversify, and criticize this framing of gendercide. They range from a sophisticated theoretical analysis of gendercide to in-depth treatments of such topics as the Rwandan genocide of 1994, the gendercidal oppression of young African American males, the predicament of gays and lesbians in the face of increasing biotechnological manipulation of human behavior, and the psychology of shame and humiliation underlying generdercides against both sexes. Still other articles take issue with Jones's theories of gendercide, or explore how human-rights organizations have defined, documented, and responded to gendercide and other sex-specific atrocities. A closing essay considers the relevance of feminist and men's studies literatures for the study of gendercide.

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From the opening hours of the 1999 war in Kosovo, an overriding tactic was evident in Serb military strategy: the gender-selective detention and mass killing of ethnic Albanian men, especially those of "battle age."

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  • Title Gendercide and Genocide
  • Author Adam Jones (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vanderbilt University Press
  • Publication date 2004-05-10
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780826514448 / 0826514448
  • Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.38 x 1.01 in (23.52 x 16.21 x 2.57 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Genocide, Genocide - Sociological aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003017646
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.66

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