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War and conflict have historically been viewed as a masculine terrain. Traditional discourses position women in the private sphere as victims and community maintainers, while men defend the nation (and their virtue) and pick up the pieces once peace is attained.

 

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EDITORIAL:


ARTICLE:
Women guerillas: marching toward true freedom? An analysis of women’s experiences in the frontlines of guerilla warfare.
Tazreena Sajjad


PERSPECTIVE:
‘Are there any people here?’ Violence against women in the Zimbabwean conflict.
Everjoice Win


ARTICLE:
Where there is no ‘safe haven’: human rights abuses of Sierra Leonean women at home and in exile.
Fatmata Lovetta Sesay


FOCUS:
Media images of women during war - vehicles of patriarchy’s agenda?
Adhis Chetty


ARTICLE:
Gender and the globalisation of violence: the treacherous terrain of privatised peacekeeping.
Heidi Hudson


REPORTBACK:
Women at the peace table.
Nitasha Moothoo-Padayachie


PERSPECTIVE:
Living peace
Ruth Mastron and Carmen Dyke


BRIEFING:
From state security to human security and gender justice.
Viviene Taylor


PERSPECTIVE:
Pushing Boundaries? Separating the women from the women.
Saranel Benjamin



IN BRIEF:


FOCUS:
Do traditional values entrench male supremacy?
Charles Sylvester Rankhotha


POETRY:
Gender in a corner.
David Kapp


OUTLOOK:
What’s the point of wearing a white ribbon ...?
Pontsho K Segwai


REPORTBACK:
Strategic interventions: intersections between gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS.
Bernedette Muthien


WRITING PROGRAMME:

INTRODUCTION:
The Agenda Writing Programme:

Where from ... where to?
Clare Wyllie and Christine Davis


Switching on POWER - Switching on SPACES: A South African woman in local government politics.
Anthea Sheldon


RAGE against the MACHINE! The same technologies that instill institution can be used to foment revolution.
Colleen Louw


Gijima-ring to a ‘mind your own’ mentality: a young urban black South African woman muses on the contradictions of growing up.
Welile Tembe


A mother’s death ...
Rabia Cassimjee

Holding my breath: feeling my way through ‘black’ and woman.
Glenise Levendal