Twelve Feminist Lessons of War (eBook)

Cynthia Enloe (Autor)

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2023
224 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39768-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Renowned scholar-activist Cynthia Enloe lays out the lessons that women activists have drawn from their immediate experiences of war.
 
Twelve Feminist Lessons of War draws on firsthand experiences of war from women in places as diverse as Ukraine, Myanmar, Somalia, Vietnam, Rwanda, Algeria, Syria, and Northern Ireland to show how women's wars are not men's wars. With her engaging trademark style, Cynthia Enloe demonstrates how patriarchy and militarism have embedded themselves in our institutions and our personal lives.
 
Enloe reveals how the social and political influences that shape war—from military recruitment and economic collapse to sexual assault and reproductive rights (and their denial)—are deeply gendered and pervade women's lives before, during, and in the aftermath of war. Her razor-sharp analysis, at once accessible and provocative, highlights how women's emotional and physical labor is used to support government policies and how women's rights activists—against all odds—remain committed in the midst of armed violence. Twelve Feminist Lessons of War is the gritty and grounded book we need to understand what is happening to our world.

Inhalt

Contents

PREFACE 
This Is Not a Girls’ Guide to Waging Wars 

ONE
Women’s Wars Are Not Men’s Wars 

TWO
Every War Is Fought in Gendered History 

THREE
Getting Men to Fight Isn’t So Easy 

FOUR
Women as Soldiers Is Not Liberation 

FIVE
Women as Armed Insurgents Offer Feminist Caveats 

SIX
Wounds Matter – Wounds Are Gendered 

SEVEN
Make Wartime Rape Visible 

EIGHT
Feminists Organize While War Is Raging 

NINE
“Post-war” Can Last Generations 

TEN
Militarization Starts during Peacetime 

ELEVEN
Ukrainian Feminists Have Lessons to Teach Us about War 

TWELVE
Feminist Lessons Are for Everyone 

NOTES 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
INDEX 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.9.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: activism • conflict • Corruption • Economic collapse • Feminist International Relations • gendered politics • marriage • military mothers • Military recruitment • Peace • political processes • Reproductive rights • Sexual assault • theory • women’s experiences
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39768-1 / 0520397681
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39768-2 / 9780520397682