The Politics of Violence: Gender, Conflict and Community in El Salvador

'A fascinating and thoughtful book about the meanings of violence in El Salvador. Hume details a new gendered ethnography, illuminating the intersections between the violence of conflict and the violence of 'peace times'.
—Cathy McIwaine, Queen Mary, University of London

'This book is a bold and long awaited lens on violence from a feminist perspective. On the one hand it is a rich ethnography of violence in El Salvador, and on the other it re-conceptualises violence in order to bring out the differential gender effects, experiences and agency. This is a very valuable contribution to bringing violence into the centre of debates on politics, development and peacebuilding.'
—Jenny Pearce, University of Bradford