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INSTRUCTIONS: Your answer should be a minimum of 200 words for EACH question.  Citations in the text and references at the end are required. 

GENDER, NATION AND WAR/WEEK 8 CASE STUDY AND GENDER ANALYSIS-THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE (1994). In Rwanda, between April and July 1994, during a 100-day killing spree, one million members of the Tutsi ethnic group were systematically executed by the ethnic Hutu controlled government in one of the century’s worst genocides.  Of the victims, some 250,000 to 500,000 women, mostly Tutsis were brutally raped, sexually mutilated or murdered (Mullins, 2009).  The Rwandan genocide highlights a fundamental, but unfortunate truth that during armed conflict, women are often systematically targeted with violence as a means of accomplishing the strategic objectives of combatants.  In short, many times conflict is fought on the bodies of women.

Question #1: 

What was the role of the “public woman discourse” in the targeting of Tutsi women before and during the Rwandan genocide?  Your answer must address the following: the role of women in the nation; Rwandan women’s status before the genocide; gendered propaganda; define public and private spheres; the role of women in the public vs. private spheres and the public manner women were killed during the genocide.

GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE.  In the article “Intersecting identities and global climate change” author Joane Nagel explores the impact of climate change and intersectionality by examining race, class, gender, sexual and national identities and cultures.  Moreover, research has shown that women are more vulnerable than men in climate change disasters such as flooding and drought.  Reasons for this include “poverty, economic activities, subsistence-agriculture and the moral economies governing women’s modesty in many cultures” (Nagel, 2012, 467).

Question #2. 

How does intersectionality impact climate change? In answering the question, you must use Nagel’s article to address the following: gender sexuality and nation; race, gender, class and moral economy, using Hurricane Katrina as an example; nation, class and the global system; and masculinity, militarism and science