The women and war reader

  • Creator: edited by Lois Ann Lorentzen and Jennifer Turpin.

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."--Publisher description.

  • OCLC #: 38930588
  • ISBN #:
    • 081475144X
    • 9780814751442
    • 0814751458
    • 9780814751459
  • Call #: D810.W7W656 1998
  • Personal Collection:
    • The Charlie Moskos Collection.
  • Publisher: New York : New York University Press, ©1998.
  • Physical Description: xiii, 382 pages ; 26 cm
  • Contents:
    • Many faces : women confronting war / Jennifer Turpin
    • The truth about women and peace / Jodi York
    • After feminist analyses of Bosnian violence / Darius M. Rejali
    • Should women be soldiers or pacifists? / April Carter
    • Gendered nationalism : reproducing "us" versus "them" / V. Spike Peterson
    • All the men are in the militias, all the women are victims : the politics of masculinity and femininity in nationalist wars / Cynthia Enloe
    • Surfacing gender : reconceptualizing crimes against women in time of war / Rhonda Copelon
    • Girls behind the (front) lines / Carolyn Nordstrom
    • Gender, militarization and universal male conscription in South Korea / Seungsook Moon
    • Militarization, conflict and women in South Asia / Anuradha M. Chenoy
    • Militarism and Cypriot women / Ninetta Pourou-Kazantzis
    • Feminist perspectives on women warriors / Francine D'Amico
    • Women munitions makers, war and citizenship / Angela Woolacott
    • Women warriors/women peacemakers : will the real feminists please stand up! / Ilene Rose Feinman
    • The expanding role of women in United Nations peacekeeping / Janet Beilstein
    • War and gender : what do we learn from Israel? / Uta Klein
    • Broken dreams in Nicaragua / Diana Mulinari
    • Zapatismo : gender, power and social transfromation / Mariana Mora
    • Domestic activism and nationalist struggle / Monica E. Neugebauer
    • Torture as text / Irene Matthews
    • Women's prison resistance : Testimonios from El Salvador / Lois Ann Lorentzen
    • Imagining peace / Elaine R. Pgnibene
    • "Women of peace" : a feminist construction / Sara Ruddick
    • Maternal thinking and the politics of war / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
    • War, nationalism and mothers in the former Yugoslavia / Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović
    • Drafting motherhood : maternal imagery and organizations in the United States and Nicaragua / Lorraine Bayard de Volo
    • Moral mothers and stalwart sons : reading binaries in a time of war / Malathi de Alwis
    • Parenting troops : the summons to acquiescence / Rela Mazali
    • Women or weapons? / Betty A. Reardon
    • Dissension in the ranks : the New York branch of WILPF vs. the National Board, 1914-1955 / Harriet Hyman Alonso
    • Solidarity and wartime violence against women / Leila J. Rupp
    • Making connections : building an East Asia-U.S. women's network against U.S. militarism / Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey
    • Afghan women in the peace process / Pamela Collett
    • The impact of women in black in Israel / Gila Svirsky
    • Israeli and Palestinian women working for peace / Ronit Lentin
    • Silent or silenced? / Lynne M. Woerhle
    • The psychology of societal reconstruction and peace : a gendered perspective / Susan R. McKay.
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