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.
...MoreDescription “Traces the recent history of the entry of gender-based violence into the medical humanitarian portfolio.” (from the abstract)
Similar Citations
Book
Rene Almeling;
(2020)
GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health
Book
Mak, Geertje;
(2012)
Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, Bodies and Selves in Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories
Book
Forth, Christopher E.;
Crozier, Ivan;
(2005)
Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality
Thesis
Jeffrey W. Lockhart;
(2022)
Establishing Sex: The Scientific Quest to Support a Controversial Binary
Book
Shara Crookston;
(2023)
Protecting Abortion Access: The Experiences of Clinic Volunteers From Roe to Dobbs
Book
Emily Bass;
(2021)
To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa
Book
Tom Scott-Smith;
(2020)
On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief
Article
Walter Bruchhausen;
(2019)
Between Foreign Politics and Humanitarian Neutrality: Medical Emergency Aid by the Two German States before 1970
Article
Antonio Rostagno;
(2019)
Salomania: "Perturbing Detour" or "New Mentality"?
Book
Amy Koerber;
(2018)
From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History
Thesis
Gerkovich, Paulette Rachel;
(2002)
Accessing Power with the Medicalized Body: The Paradox and Implications of Women's Health Demands
Chapter
Wells, Susan;
(2009)
Narrative Forms in Our Bodies, Ourselves
Article
Henne, Kathryn;
(2014)
The “Science” of Fair Play in Sport: Gender and the Politics of Testing
Thesis
Halfmann, Drew T.;
(2001)
Interests in Contexts and Institutional Democracy: The Politics of Abortion Policy in Liberal Welfare States, 1950--2000
Article
Jennifer Fraser;
(2021)
Seizing the Means of Reproduction? Canada, Cancer Screening, and the Colonial History of the Cytopipette
Article
Karissa Haugeberg;
(2018)
Nursing and Hospital Abortions in the United States, 1967–1973
Article
Agata Ignaciuk;
Christabelle Sethna;
(2020)
Charters for Choice: Abortion Travel, Abortion Referral Networks and Spanish Women's Transnational Reproductive Agency, 1975–1985
Book
Erika Dyck;
Maureen Lux;
(2020)
Challenging Choices: Canada's Population Control in the 1970s
Article
Naomi Rogers;
(2022)
Radical Visions of American Medicine: Politics and Activism in the History of Medicine
Book
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab;
(2019)
Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution: The Egyptian and Syrian Debates
Be the first to comment!