80 P - African Women's Experiences of Conflict, Military Engagement, and Peace-Making

Friday, June 2, 2017: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
SC 142 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Victoria Bernal, University of California, Irvine
Exporting Race, Gender, and Class: The United States Military's Facilitation of Sex Work in Liberia during World War II
Mary Murphy, Texas State University
Recentering the Policy Recipient: Self-Decolonizing Practices of Women in Conflict
Carrie Reiling, University of California, Irvine
Balancing Peace, Power, and Paternalism in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Amanda Boczar, United States Military Academy, West Point
"The sooner we have a Vietnam, the better": Anti-Colonial War and the Women's Secretariat of the African National Congress, 1960-1980
Rachel Sandwell, University of the Witwatersrand

Session Abstract

This panel focuses on the roles and efforts of women in different conflict ridden areas of Africa. Through pieces on community organizing, female soldiers, sex work, and female government power, this panel analyzes the way war and violence have presented a complicated mix of victimization and empowerment to African women.

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