The term 'gendercide' highlights a range of distinct forms of violence reserved for human beings based on their own gender self-identification as well as patriarchal assumptions about their gender. In the patriarchal contexts that dominate cultures globally, this violence overwhelmingly compromises the security of human beings who identify and are identified as women, girl-children, and not gender non-conforming human beings. From the moment of their birth, these human beings are made to experience a range of degree of violence so consistent and intense that it severely undermines their human security, for many to the point of fatality.
This course recognizes the important of investigating this violence as it impacts the human security of over one-half of all human beings on earth. Bringing visibility to this violence is also important because security issues impacting one part of the world will at some point impact the human security of everyone globally.
About Professor Rajan
Julie Rajan is Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Masters Program in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University-NB; and a member of the Affiliate Faculty and Director of the Undergraduate Program in The Program in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-NB. Her research interests include: women’s human rights; women and violence in conflict; colonial, post-colonial, and modern-day imperialisms; and terrorism and resistance. Her monographs include: Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence (2011); Al Qaeda’s Global Crisis: The Islamic State, Takfir, and the Genocide of Muslims(2015); and Women, Violence, and the Islamic State: Resurrecting the Caliphate through Femicide (forthcoming 2021). She has co-edited and edited a number of collections and special issues, including: Violence and Gender in the Globalized World (2008); Human Rights in Postcolonial India (2016); and The United States, Security, and Human Rights: Extra-Ordinary ‘Justice’ in the Post-9/11 Era, Special Issue for The Security Journal (March 2015).