TY - BOOK ID - 631936 TI - Gender and conflict : embodiments, discourses and symbolic practices AU - Frerks, Georg AU - Ypeij, Annelou AU - König, Reinhilde Sotiria PY - 2014 SN - 9781409464853 9781409464860 9781472404619 9781315583846 9781317130796 9781317130802 9780815377344 PB - Farnham Ashgate DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Social psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:631936 AB - Through an in-depth analysis of the multifaceted manifestations of gender and conflict, this book shows how cognition and behaviour, agency and victimisation, are gendered beyond the popular stereotypes. Conflict not only reconfirms social hierarchies and power relations, but also motivates people to transgress cultural boundaries and redefine their self-image and identities. The contributions are a mix of classical ethnography, performance studies and embodiment studies, showing 'emotions and feelings' often denied in scientific social research. Strong in their constructivist approach and unorthodox in theory, the articles touch upon the dynamic relation between the discourses, embodiments and symbolic practices that constitute the gendered world of conflict. The localities and research sites vary from institutional settings such as a school, rebel movements, public toilets and the military to more artistic domains of gendered conflicts such as prison theatre classes and the capoeira ring. At the same time, these conflicts and domains appropriate wider discourses and practices of a global nature, demonstrating the globalised and institutionalised nature of the nexus gender-conflict. ER -