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This compelling, interdisciplinary compilation of essays documents the extensive, intersubjective relationships between gender, war, and militarism in 21st-century global politics.
Feminist scholars have long contended that war and militarism are fundamentally gendered. Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives provides empirical evidence, theoretical innovation, and interdisciplinary conversation on the topic, while explicitly—and uniquely—considering the links between gender, war, and militarism. Essentially an interdisciplinary conversation between scholars studying gender in political science, anthropology, and sociology, the essays here all turn their attention to the same questions. How are war and militarism gendered?
Seventeen innovative explanations of different intersections of the gendering of global politics and global conflict examine the theoretical relationship between gender, militarization, and security; the deployment of gender and sexuality in times of conflict; sexual violence in war and conflict; post-conflict reconstruction; and gender and militarism in media and literary accounts of war. Together, these essays make a coherent argument that reveals that, although it takes different forms, gendering is a constant feature of 21st-century militarism.
Contents
Foreword by Cynthia Enloe
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Laura Sjoberg and Sandra Via
I. Gender, Militarization, and Security
1. Gendered Identities, Ideologies, and Practices in the Context of War and Militarism
V. Spike Peterson
2. From "Soft" Power to "Hard" Power: The Gendered Militarization of the European Union
Stephanie Anderson
3. Gender, Militarism, and Globalization: Soldiers for Hire and Hegemonic Masculinity
Sandra Via
II. Deployment of Gender and Sexuality in Times of Conflict
4. Boots and Bedsheets: Constructing the Military Support System in a Time of War
Denise M. Horn
5. Confronting Militarization: Intersections of Gender(ed) Violence, Militarization, and Resistance in the Pacific
Ronni Alexander
6. Fighting in the Feminine: The Dilemmas of Combat Women in Israel
Tami Amanda Jacoby
7. Post-war Trajectories for Girls Associated with the Fighting Forces in Sierra Leone
Susan Shepler
III. Sexual Violence in War and Conflict
8. Rape as a Marker and Eraser of Difference: Darfur and the Nuba Mountains (Sudan)
Sondra Hale
9. The Everyday/Everynightness of Rape: Is it Different in War?
Liz Kelly
10. Sexual Violence during War: Toward an Understanding of Variation
Elisabeth Jean Wood
11. Explaining Sexual Violence in Conflict Situations
Megan Gerecke
IV. Gender, War, and Militarism in Disarmament and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
12. Links between Women, Peace, and Disarmament: Snapshots from the WILPF
Catia Cecilia Confortini
13. When Is War Over? Women's Stories of Healing and Rebuilding after the War in El Salvador
Gwyn Kirk
14. Using Gender to Consider Post-Conflict Forgiveness
Sigal Ben-Porath
V. Texts and Contexts for Gender, War, and Militarism
15. Feminism, Nationalism, and Globalism: Representations of Bosnian "War Babies" in the Western Print Media, 1991-2006
R. Charli Carpenter
16. Gendering the Empire's Soldiers: Gender Ideologies, the U.S. Military, and the "War on Terror"
Laura Sjoberg
17. Fireman Fetishes and Drag King Dreams: Queer Responses to September 11
Deborah Cohler
Conclusion: The Interrelationship between Gender, War, and Militarism
Laura Sjoberg and Sandra Via
References
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
