Sexed Pistols: The Gendered Impacts of Small Arms & Light Weapons
Every day, small arms and light weapons (SALW) kill, wound, and threaten millions of adults and children. Due to their widespread availability, mobility, and ease of use, prolific SALW have become central to maintaining social dislocation, destabilization, insecurity, and crime in the build-up to war, during wartime, and in the aftermath of conflict. Small arms are misused within domestic settings, as well as in public spaces, affecting everyone in the community without regard to sex or...
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Due to widespread availability, mobility and ease of use prolific small arms and light weapons (SALW) have become central to maintaining social dislocation, destabilization, insecurity and crime in the build-up to war, in wartime and in the aftermath of violent conflict. The book draws on experience and research from around the world on the nexus of gender, age, violence and small arms in developing and developed countries. The findings feed into a number of recommendations for future policy formulation, programme implementation and research designed to further illuminate and counteract the firing of the "sexed pistol".
Tables and figures viiiContributors xAcknowledgements xviAbbreviations xviiiPreface xxiiiIntroduction 11 Sexing the pistol: The gendered impacts of prolific small arms Vanessa Farr Henri Myrittinen Albrecht Schnabel 32 Gender, attitudes and the regulation of small arms: Implications for action Wendy Cukier James Cairns 18Part I Sexualized violence, gender and small arms 493 Girls and small arms in Sierra Leone: Victimization, participation and resistance Myriam Denov Richard Maclure 514 Small arms and rape as a system of war: A case study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felicity Szesnat 81Part II Gender, small arms and violence in fragmented societies 1075 Haiti: The gendered pattern of small-arms violence against women Nadine Puechguirbal Wiza Loutis Natalie Man 1096 State, society and the gender of gun culture in Papua New Guinea Sinclair Dinnen Edwina Thompson 1437 "Now they have guns, now they feel powerful"-Gender perspectives on small-arms violence in Timor-Leste Saleh Abdullah Henri Myrttinen 177Part III Militarizing the domestic sphere 2098 "That's equality for you, dear": Gender, small arms and the Northern Ireland conflict Miranda Alison\|2119 The gun on the kitchen table: The sexist subtext of private policing in Israel Rela Mazali 24610 Securing private spaces: Gendered labour, violence and democratization in South Africa Jennifer N. Fish Pumla Mncayi 290Part IV Gender, weapons collection and small-arms control 32711 Just a matter of practically: Mapping the role of women in weapons for development projects in Albania, Cambodia and Mali Shukuko Koyama 32912 Poems againstBullets? The role of Somali women in social gun control Katrin Kinzelbach Zeinab Mohamed Hassan 35613 Missing men, lost boys and widowed women: Gender perspectives on small-arms proliferation and disarmament in Karamoja, Uganda Christina M. Yeung 390Conclusion 41914 Conclusions: Recommendations for further research and activism Vanessa Farr Henri Myrttinen Albrecht Schnabel 421Selected recommended reading 433Index 441
