Feminism and War
Confronting US Imperialism
Published on 15. October 2008
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-84813-018-0 (ISBN)
Description
Women across the globe are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by the USA. 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, such as:
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?
Did American intervention and invasion in fact result in liberation for women in Afghanistan and Iraq?
What multiple concepts are embedded in the phrase "women's liberation"?
How are these 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 US?
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, imperialism to justify, legitimate, and continue war. Each chapter builds on the next to develop an anti-racist, feminist politics that places imperialist power, and forms of resistance to it, central to its comprehensive analysis.
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, such as:
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?
Did American intervention and invasion in fact result in liberation for women in Afghanistan and Iraq?
What multiple concepts are embedded in the phrase "women's liberation"?
How are these 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 US?
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, imperialism to justify, legitimate, and continue war. Each chapter builds on the next to develop an anti-racist, feminist politics that places imperialist power, and forms of resistance to it, central to its comprehensive analysis.
Reviews / Votes
'A cogent, passionate and damning anti-racist feminist expose and dissection of the politics of contemporary US warmongering and its devastating impacts. An essential reference point for all those committed to mobilising against imperialist capitalism, war and globalisation.'Ailbhe Smyth, Women's Studies
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
543 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84813-018-0 (9781848130180)
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Confronting Us Imperialism
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Persons
Robin Riley is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University. She is co-editor of Interrogating Imperialism: Conversations on Gender, Race & War (2006). Robin is currently working on a project on how US college students think and talk about the war on Iraq.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. Mohanty is author of Feminism Without Borders (2003), co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (1991), and Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (1997).She works with two grassroots community organizations, Grassroots Leadership of North Carolina, and the Center for Immigrant Families in New York City.
Minnie Bruce Pratt is Professor of Women's & Gender Studies and Writing at Syracuse University, and a member of the editorial board of Feminist Studies. Her essay, Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart has become a feminist classic. She is the author of six books of poetry, including Walking Back Up Depot Street (1999) and The Dirt She Ate (2004); and the recipient of many awards, including the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets, the American Library Association's Stonewall Award, and a Lambda Literary Award. Her book of creative nonfiction, S/HE explores the interconnections between women's liberation and transgender lives. Since coming out as a lesbian in 1975, Pratt has been active in women's issues, anti-racist work, and anti-imperialist initiatives.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. Mohanty is author of Feminism Without Borders (2003), co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (1991), and Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (1997).She works with two grassroots community organizations, Grassroots Leadership of North Carolina, and the Center for Immigrant Families in New York City.
Minnie Bruce Pratt is Professor of Women's & Gender Studies and Writing at Syracuse University, and a member of the editorial board of Feminist Studies. Her essay, Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart has become a feminist classic. She is the author of six books of poetry, including Walking Back Up Depot Street (1999) and The Dirt She Ate (2004); and the recipient of many awards, including the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets, the American Library Association's Stonewall Award, and a Lambda Literary Award. Her book of creative nonfiction, S/HE explores the interconnections between women's liberation and transgender lives. Since coming out as a lesbian in 1975, Pratt has been active in women's issues, anti-racist work, and anti-imperialist initiatives.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Feminism and U.S. Wars: Mapping the Ground - Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Robin L. Riley
Part I: Feminist Geopolitics of War
A Vocabulary for Feminist Praxis: On War and Radical Critique - Angela Y. Davis
Resexing Militarism for the Globe - Zillah Eisenstein
U.S. Sexual Exceptionalism: 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: From Personal Pain to Collective Change - Huibin Amelia Chew
Part II: Feminists Mobilizing Critiques of War
Women of Color Veterans: A Dialogue on War, Militarism and Feminism - Setsu Shigematsu with Anuradha Kristina Bhagwati and Eli PaintedCrow
On Euro-Colonial Sovereignty: 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: Baghdad Burning and the Politics of Resistance - Nadine Sinno
"Rallying Public Opinion" and Other Misuses of Feminism: How U.S. Militarism in Afghanistan Is Gendered through Congressional Discourse - Jennifer L. Fluri
Part III: Women's Struggles and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Afghan Women: The Limits of Colonial Rescue - Shahnaz Khan
Gendered, Racialized and Sexualized Torture: Orientalism and the Politics of 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
Part IV: Feminists Organizing Against Imperialism and War
Violence Against Women: The U.S. War on Women - LeiLani Dowell
"We Say CodePink": Feminist Direct Action and the "War on Terror" - Judy Rohrer
Every Bomb Dropped on Iraq Falls on U.S. Cities: Women, Gentrification, and Harlem - Nellie Hester Bailey
War Does Not Affect All Women Equally: U.S. Economic Wars and Latin America - Berta Joubert-Ceci
Feminist Organizing in Israel: Against Militarism, War and Occupation - Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Engaging Power and Injustice in the U.S.A.: Strategies for Anti-War Organizing - Leslie Cagan
Feminism and War: Stopping Militarizers, Critiquing Power - Cynthia Enloe
Prosaic Poem - Micere Githae Mugo
End U.S. War Now!
Afterword - Linda Carty
Introduction: Feminism and U.S. Wars: Mapping the Ground - Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Robin L. Riley
Part I: Feminist Geopolitics of War
A Vocabulary for Feminist Praxis: On War and Radical Critique - Angela Y. Davis
Resexing Militarism for the Globe - Zillah Eisenstein
U.S. Sexual Exceptionalism: 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: From Personal Pain to Collective Change - Huibin Amelia Chew
Part II: Feminists Mobilizing Critiques of War
Women of Color Veterans: A Dialogue on War, Militarism and Feminism - Setsu Shigematsu with Anuradha Kristina Bhagwati and Eli PaintedCrow
On Euro-Colonial Sovereignty: 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: Baghdad Burning and the Politics of Resistance - Nadine Sinno
"Rallying Public Opinion" and Other Misuses of Feminism: How U.S. Militarism in Afghanistan Is Gendered through Congressional Discourse - Jennifer L. Fluri
Part III: Women's Struggles and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Afghan Women: The Limits of Colonial Rescue - Shahnaz Khan
Gendered, Racialized and Sexualized Torture: Orientalism and the Politics of 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
Part IV: Feminists Organizing Against Imperialism and War
Violence Against Women: The U.S. War on Women - LeiLani Dowell
"We Say CodePink": Feminist Direct Action and the "War on Terror" - Judy Rohrer
Every Bomb Dropped on Iraq Falls on U.S. Cities: Women, Gentrification, and Harlem - Nellie Hester Bailey
War Does Not Affect All Women Equally: U.S. Economic Wars and Latin America - Berta Joubert-Ceci
Feminist Organizing in Israel: Against Militarism, War and Occupation - Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Engaging Power and Injustice in the U.S.A.: Strategies for Anti-War Organizing - Leslie Cagan
Feminism and War: Stopping Militarizers, Critiquing Power - Cynthia Enloe
Prosaic Poem - Micere Githae Mugo
End U.S. War Now!
Afterword - Linda Carty