No. 6 (2011): Women, war and peace

In all historical societies, war is not a strictly military event, nor exclusively developed on the front line of battle. Along with the military actions waged at the front, there is always a much wider space, the rear, in which life is transformed. The entire civilian population suffers the disasters of war, adapts to its requirements and, in doing so, pre-existing cultural categories are blurred.

The first cultural border that is diluted in every war conflagration is the one that separates the public from the private; consequently, the traditional patriarchal allocation of spaces based on gender is overwhelmed and rendered completely useless even for the military and political powers that have tried to maintain it.

Our purpose in this monograph on Gender Issues intends to go through the rearguard and the vanguard of armed conflicts in recent centuries, returning to the female experience in wars and their contribution to the demands for peace.

Coordinator: Elena Aguado Cabezas

Number of articles received: 24.

Number of accepted articles: 14.