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Perhaps the first to develop a gender analysis of conflict in South Asia, this volume challenges the centrality of men??s experiences and theorisations of conflict. Instead, it focuses on women??s experiences as representing alternative and non-violent ways negotiating the construction of conflictual identities and on women??s perspectives which privilege the notion of a ??just?? peace. This vital and timely contribution to an understanding of women??s neglected yet crucial role in times of war and peace highlights the way in which women manage survival and reconstruction. It will interest students and scholars of gender studies, conflict and peace studies, political science and psychology as well as the lay reader. Table of Contents Where are the Women in South Asian Conflicts RITA MANCHANDA Guns and Burqa: Women in the Kashmir Conflict RITA MANCHANDA Ambivalent Empowerment: The Tragedy of Tamil Women in Conflict DARINI RAJASINGHAM-SENANAYAKE Between Two Armed Patriarchies: Women in Assam and Nagaland PAULA BANERJEE ??They Use Us and Others Abuse Us??: Women in the MQM Conflict ANIS HAROON Where There are No Men: Women in the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal AMRITA BANSKOTA, SHOBHA GAUTAM and RITA MANCHANDA Women??s Narratives from the Chittagong Hill Tracts MEGHNA GUHATHAKURTA Index