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Innocent Women and Children: Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2007

Erin K. Baines
Erin K. Baines
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia
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Innocent Women and Children: Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians. By R. Charli Carpenter. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. 230p. $89.95 cloth.

On the occasion of Remembrance Day in grade six and as my classmates and I cut small poppies out of red construction paper, we learned about the brave young Canadian men who died fighting for our freedom and were laid to rest in Flanders Field. A striking memory of this history lesson was that I secretly congratulated myself for being a girl. If I ever found myself in the midst of a war, it was the boys who would have to fight. A narrow escape from a dreadful fate!

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BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 401 - 403
Copyright
© 2007 American Political Science Association

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