Gender, violence and nuclear weapons

Abstract

In this chapter, we seek to bridge previously separated scholarship on gender violence and nuclear violence. In the first part, we show how these separate academic fields may have distinct conceptual trajectories but also speak to each other in productive ways, most obviously in feminist-informed work on nuclear politics. In the second part, we show how this feminist-informed work illuminates both the material and discursive dimensions of nuclear violence. We reverse our focus in the third and final part to argue that the literature on nuclear violence can push feminist thinking on gender and violence in more expansive and inclusive directions. In making these arguments, we hope to contribute to an ongoing discussion on the intertwining of gender violence and nuclear violence, and how we might end both