Article ID: CBB001212656

The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence (2011)

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Ticktin, Miriam (Author)


Gender and History
Volume: 23, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 250-265

This article examines the relationship between gender and the human through the lens of humanitarianism, whose key mission is to protect `humanity'. More specifically, it traces the recent history of the entry of gender-based violence into the medical humanitarian portfolio, quickly becoming the poster-child for humanitarian aid. The article argues that this unprecedented attention to gender-based violence, and its incorporation into the mandate of humanitarians and their mission to protect a universal humanity, works to medicalise and depoliticise the issue, limiting the ability to address violence in all its manifestations. The article also suggests that paying attention to the details of this attempted incorporation, and its ultimate failure, actually offers us something more important and interesting to think with: it opens the way to new possibilities for the political, and hence for addressing such forms of violence and inequality.

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Description “Traces the recent history of the entry of gender-based violence into the medical humanitarian portfolio.” (from the abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Scott-Smith, Tom
Lockhart, Jeffrey W.
Richard E. Tremblay
Cech, Erin A.
Bruch, Elizabeth E.
Almeling, Rene
Concepts
Medicine and gender
Medicine and politics
Human body
Reproductive medicine
Public health
Women and health
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
20th century
15th century
Places
United States
Canada
Spain
Damascus
Syria
Congo
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