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Women and wars
\"Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the gendered phenomena of war. Women have participated in the making, fighting, and concluding of wars throughout history, and their participation is only increasing at the turn of the 21st century. Women experience war in multiple ways: as soldiers, as fighters, as civilians, as caregivers, as sex workers, as sexual slaves, refugees and internally displaced persons, as anti-war activists, as community peace-builders, and more. This book at once provides a glimpse into where women are in war, and gives readers the tools to understand women's (told and untold) war experiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of global social and political life\"--P. [4] of cover.
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“Feminist Security Studies”: Toward a Reflexive Practice
My comments take the form of a brief rumination about the politics of “Feminist Security Studies”—as a field of knowledge and as a practice. I start by raising some questions about the meaning of the term itself and the politics of defining the field. Then, in light of these questions, I turn to the politics of the practice of Feminist Security Studies.
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Rebuilding Bridges: Toward a Feminist Research Agenda for Postwar Reconstruction
As feminists who think about war and peacebuilding, we cannot help but encounter the complex, entwined political economic processes that underlie wars’ causes, their courses, and the challenges of postwar reconstruction. For us, then, the increasing academic division between feminist security studies (FSS) and feminist (international) political economy (FPE/FIPE) has been a cause for concern, and we welcomed Politics & Gender’s earlier Critical Perspectives section on efforts to bridge the two (June 2015). We noticed, however, that although violence was addressed in several of the special section's articles, war made only brief and somewhat peripheral appearances, and peacebuilding was all but absent. While three contributions (Hudson 2015; Sjoberg 2015; True 2015) mentioned the importance of political economy in the analysis of armed conflict, the aspects of war on which the articles focused were militarized sexualities (Sjoberg 2015) or conflict-related and postwar sexual and gender-based violence (Hudson 2015; True 2015).
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Create Just, Inclusive Feminist Economies to Foster Sustainable Peace
War cannot be ended without transforming the conditions that are at the root of wars, including – centrally – the currently dominant economic model, which exacerbates inequalities and drives environmental crises. In this chapter, we argue that building inclusive, just and sustainable economies is an important feminist solution to ending war.
Although there is a rich feminist scholarship that outlines alternatives to the currently dominant economic model of extractivist, neoliberal capitalism (see e.g. Balakrishnan et al. 2016; Bauhardt and Harcourt 2018; Leach 2015; Raworth 2017), this literature rarely addresses matters of war and peace. In this chapter, we make those
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Rocking The Ship Of State
This book considers the experience of women as children and as mothers, and feminist critiques of gender as important sources of insight into the conduct, dynamics, and motivation of a feminist peace politics, examining the history, the scope, and the current condition of women's peace movements.
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A Conversation with Cynthia Enloe: Feminists Look at Masculinity and the Men Who Wage War
Cohn interviews Cynthia Enloe, a feminist international relations theorist and author of the 1983 book on the militarization of women's lives titled \"Does Khaki Become You?\" and \"Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics.\" Among others she talked about the directions feminist analysis of international politics might take in the changed, and unchanged, post-September 11 world.
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Motives and methods: using multi-sited ethnography to study US national security discourses
I needed an approach that didn't require bad guys with bad attitudes … an approach that would let you look at the nature of the way the whole thing was put together.(Hacker 1990)Follow the metaphorI embarked on my research on gender and security in the mid-1980s, during the height of the Cold War and the so-called “nuclear arms race” between the USA and the Soviet Union. The manufacture and stockpiling of tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, the quest for more “useable nukes” and more “survivable” weapons delivery systems – all of it seemed so wildly irrational to me that I was consumed by the questions: “How can they do this? How can they even think this way?”Initially, those questions were more expressions of moral anguish and political despair than anything I might have ever thought of as “a good research question.” However, the intensity of my concern led me to take an opportunity to learn about nuclear weapons from some of the men who made their living thinking about nuclear weaponry and strategy. And that experience, my first close encounter with the discursive universe of national security elites, ultimately led me into an extensive, multi-sited study of the role of gender in shaping US national security paradigms, policies, and practices (Cohn, forthcoming). This chapter is a reflection on the methodological choices I made in the course of that study.
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