Meaning of womenandchildren | Babel Free

Definitions

Humanitarian language used as a justification to go to war.

uncountable

Examples

“Before the first Gulf War, anti-militarist academic Cynthia Enloe coined the one-word phrase “womenandchildren”, which was a rallying cry at the time for US involvement in Iraq – and is now so again in Syria.”

“They argue that “the difference between violence against ‘womenandchildren’ or violence against men relies on a discursive framework to determine if deaths are mourned and condemned,” and seeks to legitimise violence against men, regardless of whether they are a civilian or combatant.”

“To this end, prominent feminist international relations scholar, Cynthia Enloe coined the phrase 'womenandchildren' to highlight this, now almost inseparable, association.”

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