Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives (Praeger Security International)

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. Gendered identities, ideologies, and practices in the context of war and militarism / V. Spike Peterson From "soft" power to "hard" power : the gendered militarization of the European Union / Stephanie Anderson Gender, militarism, and globalization : soldiers for hire and hegemonic masculinity / Sandra Via Boots and bedsheets : constructing the military support system in a time of war / Denise Horn Confronting militarization : intersections of gender(ed) violence, militarization and resistance in the Pacific / Ronni Alexander Fighting in the feminine : the dilemmas of combat women in Israel / Tami Jacoby Post-war trajectories for girls associated with fighting forces in Sierra Leone / Susan Shepler Rape as a marker and eraser of difference : Darfur and the Nuba mountains (Sudan) / Sondra Hale The everyday/everynightness of rape : is it different in war? / Liz Kelly Sexual violence during war : towards an understanding of variation / Elisabeth Jean Wood Explaining sexual violence in conflict situations / Megan Gerecke Links between women, peace, and disarmament : snapshots from the WILPF / Catia C. Confortini When is war over? : women's stories of healing and rebuilding after the war in El Salvador / Gwyn Kirk Using gender to consider post-conflict forgiveness / Sigal Ben-Porath Feminism, nationalism, and globalism : representations of Bosnian "war babies" in the global print media, 1991-2006 / R. Charli Carpenter Gendering the empire's soldiers : gender ideologies, the United States military, and the "war on terror" / Laura Sjoberg Fireman fetishes and drag king dreams : queer responses to September 11 / Deborah Cohler. 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 Feminist Perspectives provides empirical evidence, theoretical innovation, and interdisciplinary conversation on the topic, while explicitlyand uniquelyconsidering 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. Feminist scholars have long contended that war and militarism are fundamentally gendered. This work 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 The feminist approaches in this volume look at two interconnected issues in the complex matrix of gender, war, and militarism: the impacts of war and militarism on people (especially but not limited to women) and the gendered construction of war and militarism, linked to systems of power and inequality based on race, class, nation, and so on