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Guardians and Protectors: The Volunteer Women of the Donbas Conflict
Feminist Review ( IF 2.816 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 , DOI: 10.1177/0141778920944373
Christina Olha Jarymowycz

How does war reconfigure women’s social roles and status? This article investigates how women’s volunteering during conflict can challenge gendered divisions within society and transform the binary of masculine protector and feminine protected. When the Donbas conflict erupted in Ukraine in 2014, women assumed central roles as civilian volunteers who aided populations affected by violence. They gained a high level of social status in the context of a weak state, distrusted by its populace. Based on ten months of fieldwork and eighty-two interviews with civilian volunteers, this article argues that volunteering became a space of gendered negotiations over women’s position alongside wartime binaries of home/front and protector/protected. Ultimately, certain types of wartime volunteering created more opportunities for blurring these gendered divisions, enabling volunteer women to be framed as protectors of both soldiers and civilians. Moreover, age intersected with gender, as volunteer women’s life stage influenced their ability to become leaders within volunteer groups and their bodies were interpreted alongside gender roles within the family.

中文翻译:

守护者和保护者:顿巴斯冲突中的志愿妇女

战争如何重新配置​​女性的社会角色和地位?本文调查了冲突期间女性志愿服务如何挑战社会中的性别分歧,并转变男性保护者和女性保护者的二元性。2014 年乌克兰顿巴斯冲突爆发时,妇女担任平民志愿者的核心角色,帮助受暴力影响的民众。他们在弱国的背景下获得了高水平的社会地位,不被民众信任。基于十个月的实地工作和对平民志愿者的八十二次采访,本文认为志愿服务与战时家庭/前线和保护者/受保护者的二元对立,成为关于女性地位的性别谈判空间。最终,某些类型的战时志愿服务为模糊这些性别划分创造了更多机会,使志愿妇女能够被视为士兵和平民的保护者。此外,年龄与性别相交,因为志愿者女性的生命阶段影响了她们成为志愿者团体领导者的能力,她们的身体与家庭中的性别角色一起被解释。
更新日期:2020-10-22
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