| | The work of Enloe, Nordstrom, Cock and others has been very influential in enabling us to see militarisation and war as a gendered project. This book pursues the same theme in the specific context of Africa where the scale and depth of armed conflict has been greater than in any other continent over the last two decades (though Tanzania has not been the site for civil war as is stated on p6, and we should not forget the many African countries which have remained peaceful during this period). Turshen and Twagiramariya ask bluntly why it is that war, largely an institution within which men compete to destroy other men, so often targets women? Why is it that men's violence is turned against women to such an extent? |
