Sexed pistols : the gendered impacts of small arms and light weapons /

"Every day, small arms and light weapons (SALW) kill and maim, wound and threaten millions of adults and children, whether combatants and civilians in war zones or gangs and communities in degraded "peacetime" environments that are characterized by large-scale violence. Due to their w...

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Autor Corporativo: United Nations University. Press
Otros Autores: Farr, Vanessa, Myrttinen, Henri, Schnabel, Albrecht
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2009.
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  • Haiti : the gendered pattern of small-arms violence against women / Nadine Puechguirbal, Wiza Loutis and Natalie Man
  • State, society and the gender of gun culture in Papua New Guinea / Sinclair Dinnen and Edwina Thompson
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  • gender perspectives on small-arms violence in Timor-Leste / Saleh Abdullah and Henri Myrttinen
  • "That's equality for you, dear" : gender, small arms and the Northern Ireland conflict / Miranda Alison
  • The gun on the kitchen table : the sexist subtext of private policing in Israel / Rela Mazali
  • Securing private spaces : gendered labour, violence and democratization in South Africa / Jennifer N. Fish and Pumla Mncayi
  • Just a matter of practicality : mapping the role of women in social gun control / Katrin Kinzelbach and Zeinab Mohamed Hassan
  • Missing men, lost boys and widowed women : gender perspectives on small-arms proliferation and disarmament in Karamoja, Uganda / Christina M. Yeung.