ISBN:
9781848133662
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (289 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Rohrer, Judy Feminism and War : Confronting US Imperialism
DDC:
303.66082
Keywords:
Feminist theory
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United States -- Armed Forces -- Foreign countries
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Women and war -- United States
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Women and war
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Women in war
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: feminism and US wars - mapping the ground -- On anti-imperialist feminisms -- Gendered bodies and US wars -- Complicity, consequences, and claims -- A call to thought … and action -- Notes -- References -- 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 -- Militarizing gender -- Rape as gendered war -- Patriarchy, suicide bombers, and war -- Women's rights and the military police -- Continuing onward -- References -- 3 | Feminists and queers in the service of empire -- References -- 4 | Interrogating Americana: an African feminist critique -- Feminist critique and the US imperial state -- Africa, the politics of 'rescue,' and US feminisms -- References -- 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 -- Reproductive injustice -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- Feminism and militarism -- The cycle of genocide -- References -- 7 | Decolonizing the racial grammar of international law -- The alibi function of international law
Abstract:
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 -- References -- 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 -- The nation as victim -- Refusing victimhood -- The body in pain -- Refusing society -- References -- 9 | Deconstructing the myth of liberation @ riverbendblog.com -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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 -- Current situation -- The plight of 'rescued' women -- The road ahead -- Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- Orientalizing the veil -- Unveiling and penetrating bodies and minds at Abu Ghraib -- Note -- References -- 13 | Whose bodies count? Feminist geopolitics and lessons from Iraq -- Feminist geopolitics -- The two wars: from Afghanistan to Iraq -- Making a difference? -- The end of a trilogy: without closure -- Note -- References -- 14 | 'Freedom for women': stories of Baghdad and New York -- First question: does freedom emerge through opportunity plus education?
Abstract:
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? -- Acknowledgments -- Main sources -- The war on Iraq -- FOUR | Feminists organizing against imperialism and war -- 15 | Violence against women: the US war on women -- References -- 16 | 'We say code pink': feminist direct action and the 'war on terror' -- Feminist direct action in the USA -- Raging Grannies -- Women in Black -- Code Pink -- Are they effective? -- Conclusion -- Reference -- 17 | Women, gentrification, and Harlem -- References -- 18 | US economic wars and Latin America -- References -- 19 | Feminist organizing in Israel -- References -- 20 | Reflections on feminism, war, and the politics of dissent -- 21 | Feminism and war: stopping militarizers, critiquing power -- Prosaic poem -- Action: end US wars now! -- Afterword -- About the contributors
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