"The editors. . . whose work also appears, have presented us with a
valuable resource for years to come."
--"Peace News"
"The strength of "The Women and War Reader" lies in its both
interdisciplinary and geographically diverse approach. It confronts
the devastating impact of wartime violence and militarized
societies on women."
--"Iris"
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outdated arguments about militarist men and pacifist women while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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