Joshua S. GOLDSTEIN, War and Gender. How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 523 p [Book Review]

Clio 20:15-15 (2004)
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Pourquoi faire la guerre est-il dans l’immense majorité des cultures et à toutes les époques une activité exclusivement masculine? Comment expliquer que de nombreuses sociétés aient préféré périr plutôt que d’appeler leurs femmes à combattre sur le champ de bataille? Ces questions sont au coeur d’un ouvrage particulièrement ambitieux qui tente de repenser les rapports entre le genre et la guerre, en s’appuyant sur les acquis de disciplines aussi diverses que la biologie, l’anthropologie, la...

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