Description

Renowned scholar-activist Cynthia Enloe lays out the lessons that women activists have drawn from their immediate experiences of war.

Twelve Feminist Lessons of War draws on firsthand experiences of war from women in places as diverse as Ukraine, Myanmar, Somalia, Vietnam, Rwanda, Algeria, Syria, and Northern Ireland to show how womens wars are not mens wars. With her engaging trademark style, Cynthia Enloe demonstrates how patriarchy and militarism have embedded themselves in our institutions and our personal lives.

Enloe reveals how the social and political influences that shape warfrom military recruitment and economic collapse to sexual assault and reproductive rights (and their denial)are deeply gendered and pervade womens lives before, during, and in the aftermath of war. Her razor-sharp analysis, at once accessible and provocative, highlights how womens emotional and physical labor is used to support government policies and how womens rights activistsagainst all oddsremain committed in the midst of armed violence. Twelve Feminist Lessons of War is the gritty and grounded book we need to understand what is happening to our world.

Author: Cynthia Enloe
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 09/19/2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780520397675
Language: English