Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores

Gentry, Caron E.; Sjoberg, Laura

doi:10.5040/9781350218628

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“…We identify a problem of silence due to limited social representation, where people who are classified socially in relation to their race, gender and class are portrayed as objects to be protected or threats to be prevented, in a securitizing vocabulary. This is related to a social imaginary where they are portrayed as victims or transgressors (Gentry and Sjoberg, 2015). This can be seen in empirical studies of the process of desecuritization of female combatants in the pacification of Sierra Leone (MacKenzie, 2009) and in the finding, in a study that draws openly on the concept of intersectionality, that refugee women are constructed as vulnerable while male refugees are presented as a threat in the British media (Gray and Franck, 2019).…”

Section: Securitization and Its Critical Proponentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The decolonial turn recognizes that specific historical conditions are constituting processes that classify people and states socially and subjectively within world capitalism and colonial logic (Quijano, 2000). Similarly, gender is produced and propagated through speech, which in turn are causally related to the power relations between individuals, groups, and states, as well as the functioning of the capitalist production system and international security dynamics (Gentry and Sjoberg, 2015).…”

Section: The Colonial/modern Gender System For Securitization Studiesmentioning

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Can securitization theory be saved from itself? A decolonial and feminist intervention

Gomes

Marques

2021

Security Dialogue

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Section: Securitization and Its Critical Proponentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Colonial/modern Gender System For Securitization Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can securitization theory be saved from itself? A decolonial and feminist intervention

Gomes

Marques

2021

Security Dialogue

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“…Due to dominant gender stereotypes perceiving women as inherently peaceful and passive, women who engage in political violence are regularly portrayed as “mothers,” “monsters,” or “whores” and “both their actions and their existence [as] singular mistakes and freak accidents” (Gentry and Sjoberg, 2015: 12). These stereotypes persist despite female rebels perpetrating equally brutal acts of violence as male soldiers (Cohen, 2013).…”

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“…These stereotypes persist despite female rebels perpetrating equally brutal acts of violence as male soldiers (Cohen, 2013). Building particularly on Gentry and Sjoberg’s (2015) work on politically violent women as “mothers,” recent scholarship studies how domestic and international audiences view women’s participation in rebel groups (Loken, 2021; Manekin and Wood, 2020). We build on this work and argue that female rebels draw international attention to conflicts.…”

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Female rebels and United Nations peacekeeping deployments

Mehrl¹,

Dworschak²

2021

Cooperation and Conflict

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How does the presence of female rebel combatants during conflict influence the likelihood of United Nations post-conflict peacekeeping deployment? While past literature on peacekeeping emphasizes the role of conflict attributes and security council interests, only few studies investigate the importance of belligerent characteristics. We argue that, because dominant gender stereotypes paint women as peaceful, female rebel combatants lead domestic and international audiences to perceive conflicts in which they fight as more severe. Given that recent UN resolutions and mission mandates align with these stereotypes, this in turn, causes the UN to intervene and deploy peacekeepers. Multivariate regression models drawing on a global sample of UN post-conflict missions provide empirical support for our hypothesis. Our findings add to the growing body of literature emphasizing the role of women in combat roles, and contribute to the discussion on the UN’s Women, Peace, and Security agenda.

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“… 9. Gentry and Sjoberg address Åhäll’s claims in their subsequent book ‘ Beyond Mothers, Monsters and Whores ’ (2015). …”

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Delivering life, delivering death: Reaper drones, hysteria and maternity

Clark

2021

Security Dialogue

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Like all warfare, drone warfare is deeply gendered. This article explores how this military technology sediments or disrupts existing conceptualizations of women who kill in war. The article using the concept of motherhood as a narrative organizing trope and introduces a ‘fictional’ account of motherhood and drone warfare and data from a ‘real life’ account of a pregnant British Reaper operator. The article considers the way trauma experienced by Reaper drone crews is reported in a highly gendered manner, reflecting the way women’s violence is generally constructed as resulting from personal failures, lost love and irrational emotionality. This irrational emotionality is tied to a long history of medicalizing women’s bodies and psychologies because of their reproductive capacities and, specifically, their wombs – explored in this article under the historico-medical term of ‘hysteria’. The article argues that where barriers to women’s participation in warfare have, in the past, hinged upon their (argued) physical weakness, and where technology renders these barriers obsolete, there remains the tenacious myth that women are emotionally incapable of conducting lethal operations – a myth based on (mis)conceptions of the ‘naturalness’ of motherhood and the feminine capacity to give life.

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Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores

Cited by 103 publications

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Can securitization theory be saved from itself? A decolonial and feminist intervention

Can securitization theory be saved from itself? A decolonial and feminist intervention

Female rebels and United Nations peacekeeping deployments

Delivering life, delivering death: Reaper drones, hysteria and maternity

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