At War with Women reveals how post-9/11 politics of gender and
development have transformed US military power. In the mid-2000s,
the US military used development as a weapon as it revived
counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military assembled
all-female teams to reach households and wage war through
development projects in the battle for "hearts and minds." Despite
women technically being banned from ground combat units, the
all-female teams were drawn into combat nonetheless. Based on
ethnographic fieldwork observing military trainings, this book
challenges liberal feminist narratives that justified the
Afghanistan War in the name of women's rights and celebrated
women's integration into combat as a victory for gender equality.
Jennifer Greenburg critically interrogates a new imperial feminism
and its central role in securing US hegemony. Women's incorporation
into combat through emotional labor has reinforced gender
stereotypes, with counterinsurgency framing female soldiers as
global ambassadors for women's rights. This book provides an
analysis of US imperialism that keeps the present in tension with
the past, clarifying where colonial ideologies of race, gender, and
sexuality have resurfaced and how they are changing today.
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