The aftermath : women in post-war transformation / edited by Sheila Meintjes, Anu Pillay and Meredeth Turshen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overviews of the Themes -- There Is No Aftermath for Women / Sheila Meintjes, Anu Pillay, Meredeth Turshen -- Breaking Down the Category 'Women' -- Women's Wartime Gains and Potential for Post-war Transformation -- The Failure to Consolidate Wartime Gains -- The Political Economy of Violence against Women -- Myths about ldentity, Problems of Solidarity and Reconciliation -- Power and Authority in the Aftermath -- Our Vision of a Transformed Society -- Women in Conflicts, Their Gains and Their Losses / Codou Bop -- Social and Political Gains -- Economic Gains -- The Loss of Identity -- Loss of Bodily Integrity -- Adding to Women's Responsibilities -- Economic Losses -- Women's Loss of Leadership -- Losses in Education -- Losses in Health -- Violence against Women in the Aftermath / Anu Pillay -- An Analysis of the Experiences -- What Underlies Violence against Women? -- What Do Men Lack that Makes Them Inflict Violence on Women? -- Emerging Themes -- Problems of Identity, Solidarity and Reconciliation / Tina Sideris -- Multiple and Shifting Identities--Socially Constructed, Contextually Based -- Women Crossing Political and Social Divisions -- Truth Commissions, Tribunals and Healing in the Aftermath -- War and Post-War Shifts in Gender Relations / Sheila Meintjes -- How War Mobilises Women -- Military Demobilisation and Political Remobilisation -- The Long-term Effects of Wartime Changes -- Engendering Relations of State to Society in the Aftermath / Meredeth Turshen -- Tradition -- Sex and the State -- Women in Government.

What happens to women in the aftermath of war? This text asserts that for women there is no aftermath. It asks how transitions from war to peace and from authoritarian to democratic regimes can become opportunities for real social change.