A comprehensive volume sweeping across geographies that brings
together foremost scholars on war and women War affects women in
profoundly different ways than men. Women play many roles during
wartime: they are "gendered" as mothers, as soldiers, as munitions
makers, as caretakers, as sex workers. How is it that womanhood in
the context of war may mean, for one woman, tearfully sending her
son off to war, and for another, engaging in civil disobedience
against the state? Why do we think of war as "men's business" when
women are more likely to be killed in war and to become war
refugees than men? The Women and War Reader brings together the
work of the foremost scholars on women and war to address questions
of ethnicity, citizenship, women's agency, policy making, women and
the war complex, peacemaking, and aspects of motherhood. Moving
beyond simplistic gender dichotomies, the volume leaves behind
outdated arguments about militarist men and pacifist women while
still recognizing that there are patterns of difference in men's
and women's relationships to war. The Women and War Reader
challenges essentialist, class-based, and ethnocentric analysis. A
comprehensive volume covering such regions as the former
Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine, Iran,
Nicaragua, Chiapas, South Africa, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, South
Korea, and India, it will provide a much-needed resource. The
volume includes the work of over 35 contributors, including Cynthia
Enloe, Sara Ruddick, V. Spike Peterson, Betty Reardon, April
Carter, Leila J. Rupp, Harriet Hyman Alonso, Francine D'Amico,
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, and Carolyn Nordstrom.
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