Samuel Totten (ed.).Plight and Fate of Women During and Following Genocide

Abstract

of policy. While there is some repetition of ideas, concepts and case material in parts (which is inevitable given most of the chapters once stood alone), this is reinforcing rather than tedious. There is a determined message in this textthat the technocratic dimensions associated with doing gender analysis need to be peeled back, revealed as inherently political and in turn made more democratic and participatory. While critical of much of current gender mainstreaming practice, this collection does not give up on the concept but offers alternative ideas about how it can be done effectively, and in ways that undermine entrenched gendered and race-based power relations.