ISBN:
1848130198
,
184813018X
,
9781848130197
,
9781848130180
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (280 p)
,
22 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Feminism and War : Confronting US Imperialism
DDC:
303.66082
Keywords:
Women and war
;
Women in war
;
Feminist theory
;
Women and war
;
United States Armed Forces
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction: feminism and US wars - mapping the ground; ONE - Feminist geopolitics of war; TWO - Feminists mobilizing critiques of war; THREE - Women's struggles and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; FOUR - Feminists organizing against imperialism and war; Afterword; About the contributors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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