What is the Gender of Security?
Publisher: Sarajevo Open Centre SOC, BiH
Date: 2013
Volume: 281 pages, pdf
Description
This book is the second publication in the Gender Edition of Sarajevo Open Centre, in which we publish various titles concer- ning gender as a sociologically and culturally conditioned difference between persons of the male and female sex, resulting primarily from norms, practices, customs and traditions that vary through time, and especially concerning those phenomena and persons who negate, transcend, question and criticize this narrow binary divisi- on, as well as offering a cross section between gender and various social categories: security, politics, art... Gender issues in our society are not just important for the prin- cipal recognition of equality before law and are not reducible to the question of equal representation in different areas of social life. We hope that this edition will prompt changes in the awarness of the B&H society and the assumptions that lie in its very foundations, particularly the all-pervading traditional-patriarchal discourse.