By Laura Shepherd
During this hugely unique poststructural feminist critique, the writer maps the discursive terrains of associations, either NGOs and the UN, which formulate and enforce resolutions and publications of perform that have an effect on gender concerns within the context of overseas coverage practices. Drawing jointly theoretical paintings on discourses of gender violence and overseas safety, sexualized violence in struggle, gender and peace strategies, and the domestic-international dichotomy along with her personal rigorous empirical research, the writer develops a compelling discourse-theoretical research that gives you to have far-reaching influence in either educational and coverage environments.
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Within ‘second wave’ feminism in the 1970s and 1980s in both the UK and the USA, divisions between so-called ‘liberal feminism’ and its ‘others’ – more radical feminist projects based on critiques of liberalism from a variety of theoretical positions – led to serious internal conflict over the formulation and implementation of ‘a/the’ feminist emancipatory project (see Nicholson 1997: 1–5). Given the issues with which this chapter is concerned, it is noteworthy that ‘[t]he conflicts were as much over the perspectives and priorities of feminism itself [as they were] over whether we saw the sphere of the sexual and the problem of male violence as the root of women’s oppression’ (Segal 1987: 208).
1974: 14) These analytical strategies are comparable to those I employ in this study, where the ‘critical concepts’ are those of gender, violence, security and the international and their articulation through specific discourses; the ‘machine’ refers to the regimes of truth that claim to fix their meaning; and the ‘glimmer beyond closure’ is illustrated through the discourse-theoretical analysis. The second similarity is that of deconstruction and ‘double reading’ (Ashley 1988: 235). This primary analytical strategy shapes 2 8 | g e n d e r , v i o l e n c e a n d s ec u r i t y the research as a whole: each text is interpreted through a descriptive reading, and then subjected to a second, discourse-theoretical reading.
Moreover, this sovereignty is preconstituted and taken to be an empirical ‘reality’. In the following section I illustrate how research that focuses on ‘gender violence’ problematizes this assumption of a stable sovereign subject, as well as the implications that this assumption has for the development of a political project addressing gendered violence. Gender Violence As a conceptualization, ‘violence against women’ prioritizes practice over theory and activism over academia; similarly, the conceptualization of ‘gender violence’ has its own politics of location.
