HOW IS THE CONCEPT OF ‘WOMEN AND CHILDREN’REPRESENTED BY TWO HUMANITARIANORGANISATIONS? : HOW IS THE CONCEPT OF ‘WOMEN AND CHILDREN’REPRESENTED BY TWO HUMANITARIANORGANISATIONS?

Description

The aim of this study is to analyse how the concept of ‘women and children’ is represented bytwo humanitarian organisations; International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) andMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The analyses concludes that there is (still) an assumptionthat women have an inherent vulnerability and women are often described together with‘children’ as if they are one vulnerable group instead of two. This study suggests aproblematization of the concept since activities planned by humanitarian organisations mayhave a big impact on people’s lives when assuming one group to be more vulnerable thananother.

Links & Downloads

1. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-162033

Tags

gender

innocence

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

vulnerability

womandchildren

women and children

Gender Studies

Genusstudier

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-162033
Date	January 2019
Creators	Blideman, Anna
Publisher	Umeå universitet, Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)
Source Sets	DiVA Archive at Upsalla University
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Format	application/pdf
Rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess