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Feminism and war : confronting US imperialism / Robin L. Riley, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Minnie Bruce Pratt, editors.
LIBRA JZ6405.W66 F46 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and war.
- Women and war--United States.
- Women in war.
- Feminist theory.
- United States--Armed Forces--Foreign countries.
- United States.
- Armed Forces.
- Foreign countries.
- Physical Description:
- 280 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Zed Books, 2008.
- Summary:
- War as currently waged by the USA dramatically affects women across the globe. But there has been little public space for dialogue about the complex relationship between feminism, women, and war.
- The editors of Feminism and War have brought together a diverse set of leading theorists and activists, who examine the questions raised by ongoing American military initiatives: Did American intervention and invasion in fact result in liberation for women in Afghanistan and Iraq? What are the implications of an imperial nation-state laying claim to women's liberation? What is the relation between this claim and resulting American foreign policy and military action? What multiple concepts are embedded in the phrase 'women's liberation'? How are these concepts connected to the specifics of religion, culture, history, economics, and nation within current conflicts? What is the relation between the lives of Afghan and Iraqi women before and after invasion, and that of women living in the USA? How do women who define themselves as feminists resist or acquiesce to this nation-state claim in current theory and organizing?
- Feminism and War reveals and critically analyzes the complicated ways in which America uses gender, race, class, nationalism, and imperialism to justify, legitimate, and continue war. Each chapter builds on the previous to develop an anti-racist, feminist politics that places imperialist power, and forms of resistance to it, central to its comprehensive analysis.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Feminism and US wars : mapping the ground / Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Robin L. Riley
- A vocabulary for feminist praxis : on war and radical critique / Angela Y. Davis
- Resexing militarism for the globe / Zillah Eisenstein
- Feminists and queers in the service of empire / Jasbir Puar
- Interrogating Americana : an African feminist critique / Patricia McFadden
- In praise of Afrika's children / Micere Githae Mugo
- What's left? : after 'imperial feminist' hijackings / Huibin Amelia Chew
- Women-of-color veterans on war, militarism, and feminism / Setsu Shigematsu with Anuradha Kristina Bhagwati and Eli Painted Crow
- Decolonizing the racial grammar of international law / Elizabeth Philipose
- The other v-word : the politics of victimhood fueling George W. Bush's war machine / Alyson M. Cole
- Deconstructing the myth of liberation @ riverbendblog.com / Nadine Sinno
- "Rallying public opinion" and other misuses of feminism / Jennifer L. Fluri
- Afghan women : the limits of colonial rescue / Shahnaz Khan
- Gendered, racialized and sexualized torture at Abu Ghraib / Isis Nusair
- Whose bodies count? : feminist geopolitics and lessons from Iraq / Jennifer Hyndman
- "Freedom for women" : stories of Baghdad and New York / Berenice Malka Fisher
- The war on Iraq / Micere Githae Mugo
- Violence against women : the US war on women / LeiLani Dowell
- "We say code pink" : feminist direct action and the "war on terror" / Judy Rohrer
- Women, gentrification, and Harlem / Nellie Hester Bailey
- US economic wars and Latin America / Berta Joubert-Ceci
- Feminist organizing in Israel / Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz
- Reflections on feminism, war, and the politics of dissent / Leslie Cagan
- Feminism and war : stopping militarizers, critiquing power / Cynthia Enloe
- Prosaic poem / Micere Githae Mugo.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781848130197
- 1848130198
- 9781848130180
- 184813018X
- OCLC:
- 191925652
- Publisher Number:
- 60001028515
- Online:
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- Publisher description
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