• DOI:10.1177/004908579902900423
• Corpus ID: 6014222

Women and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Issues and Sources

@article{Srensen1998WomenAP,
  title={Women and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Issues and Sources},
  author={Birgitte S{\o}rensen},
  journal={Social Change},
  year={1998},
  volume={29},
  pages={333 - 333}
}

• Birgitte Sørensen
• Published 1 June 1998
• Sociology
• Social Change

Gender-blind analysis prevails in most of the literature on post-conflict recovery and reconstruction. Where the differences in man’s and women’s experience of war are largely disregarded. In this paper, however, Birgitte Sorensen reviews the literature dealing with political, economic and social reconstruction from a gender perspective. She explores the social reconstruction from a gender perspective. She explores the relationship between gender and political reconstruction by examining women’s participation in peace building and democratization, and analyses women’s role in economic reconstruction by looking first at development within agriculture, and then within non-agricultural formal and informal sectors. Women’s role in social reconstruction is studied both in relation to the rehabilitation of the social services focusing on education and healthcare and through an analysis of more complex processes of social interaction.