Introduction: Sexing the pistol : the gendered impacts of prolific small arms / Vanessa Farr, Henri Myrttinen and Albrecht Schnabel ; Gender, attitudes and the regulation of small arms : implications for action / Wendy Cukier and James Cairns -- pt. 1. Sexualized violence, gender and small arms: Girls and small arms in Sierra Leone : victimization, participation and resistance / Myriam Denov and Richard Maclure ; Small arms and rape as a system of war : a case study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Felicity Szesnat -- pt. 2. Gender, small arms and violence in fragmented societies: 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 / Sinclear Dinnen and Edwina Thompson ; "Now they have guns, now they feel powerful" : gender perspectives on small-arms violence in Timor-Leste / Saleh Abdullah and Henri Myrttinen -- pt. 3. Militarizing the domestic sphere: "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 -- pt. 4. Gender, weapons collection and small-arms control: Just a matter of practicality : mapping the role of women in weapons for development projects in Albania, Cambodia and Mali / Shukuko Koyama ; Poems against bullets? The role of Somali 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 -- Conclusions : recommendations for further research and activism / Vanessa Farr, Henri Myrttinen and Albrecht Schnabel.

xxv, 461 p. : graphs, tables ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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