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 womens 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.
Chapter
Complicity, consequences, and claims
A call to thought … and action
ONE | Feminist geopolitics of war
1 | A vocabulary for feminist praxis: on war and radical critique
2 | Resexing militarism for the globe
Remilitarizing daily life
Patriarchy, suicide bombers, and war
Women’s rights and the military police
3 | Feminists and queers in the service of empire
4 | Interrogating Americana: an African feminist critique
Feminist critique and the US imperial state
Africa, the politics of ‘rescue,’ and US feminisms
In praise of Afrika’s children
5 | What’s left? After ‘imperial feminist’ hijackings
Whose lives are we looking at? Whose lives are we valuing?
The economics of patriarchy
The coercion of sexual commodification
Sexual violence, domestic violence, violence against women
Hetero-patriarchy and military effectiveness
Occupation is not women’s liberation
Feminism in the belly of the beast
The cost of sexist bias in progressive organizing
The personal is systemic: putting the politics back into anti-violence work
Our struggles must inform each other
Community-based organizing
TWO | Feminists mobilizing critiques of war
6 | Women-of-color veterans on war, militarism, and feminism
Assimilation and (not) belonging
Abu Ghraib and US culture
7 | Decolonizing the racial grammar of international law
The alibi function of international law
Sovereign impulses of international law
The alibi function of torture
The colonial occupation of Iraq
The regulation and governance of sexuality
Mission accomplished: an agenda for transnational feminism
8 | The other v-word: the politics of victimhood fueling George W. Bush’s war machine
Victim is a woman and women are victims
The victimizer is a victimist
9 | Deconstructing the myth of liberation @ riverbendblog.com
10 | ‘Rallying public opinion’ and other misuses of feminism
Women, gender, and violence
Setting the stage: Afghan women and the US burqa fetish
Bombs do not distinguish by gender
Security, priority, and (re)construction in Afghanistan
THREE | Women’s struggles and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
11 | Afghan women: the limits of colonial rescue
Afghanistan: history and geopolitics
Cold war politics and its aftermath
The plight of ‘rescued’ women
12 | Gendered, racialized, and sexualized torture at Abu Ghraib
The war on terrorism and the representation of the other
Constructing the other at Abu Ghraib
Cultural difference: the Arab mind
Racial and sexual difference: the Arab body
Unveiling and penetrating bodies and minds at Abu Ghraib
13 | Whose bodies count? Feminist geopolitics and lessons from Iraq
The two wars: from Afghanistan to Iraq
The end of a trilogy: without closure
14 | ‘Freedom for women’: stories of Baghdad and New York
First question: does freedom emerge through opportunity plus education?
Second question: do our desires lead us toward greater freedom?
The third question: is freedom made possible by our connections with others – and which others?
FOUR | Feminists organizing against imperialism and war
15 | Violence against women: the US war on women
16 | ‘We say code pink’: feminist direct action and the ‘war on terror’
Feminist direct action in the USA
17 | Women, gentrification, and Harlem
18 | US economic wars and Latin America
19 | Feminist organizing in Israel
20 | Reflections on feminism, war, and the politics of dissent
21 | Feminism and war: stopping militarizers, critiquing power
Feminism and War
：Confronting US Imperialism
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