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Feminism and War Confronting US Imperialism

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ISBN-10: 1848130198

ISBN-13: 9781848130197

Edition: 2008

Authors: Judy Rohrer, Micere Mugo, Berta Joubert-Ceci, Shahnaz Khan, Zillah Eisenstein

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Women - both within and without the United States - are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by that country. But there has been little public space for dialogue about the complex relationship between feminism, women, and U.S. war. The editors have brought together a diverse set of scholars and activists who examine the questions raised by ongoing U.S. military initiatives. These theorists and organizers develop an anti-racist, feminist politics that brings to the foreground an analysis both of imperialist power and forms of resistance to it. The questions they raise include: what are the implications of an imperial nation state laying claim to women's liberation and did…    
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Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Publication date: 10/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction: feminism and US wars - mapping the ground
Feminist geopolitics of war
A vocabulary for feminist praxis: on war and radical critique
Resexing militarism for the globe
Feminists and queers in the service of empire
Interrogating Americana: an African feminist critique
In praise of Afrika's children
What's left? After 'imperial feminist' hijackings
Feminists mobilizing critiques of war
Women-of-color veterans on war, militarism, and feminism
Decolonizing the racial grammar of international law
The other v-word: the politics of victimhood fueling George W. Bush's war machine
Deconstructing the myth of liberation @ riverbendblog.com
'Rallying public opinion' and other misuses of feminism
Women's struggles and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Afghan women: the limits of colonial rescue
Gendered, racialized, and sexualized torture at Abu Ghraib
Whose bodies count? Feminist geopolitics and lessons from Iraq
'Freedom for women': stories of Baghdad and New York
The war on Iraq
Feminists organizing against imperialism and war
Violence against women: the US war on women
'We say code pink': feminist direct action and the 'war on terror'
Women, gentrification, and Harlem
US economic wars and Latin America
Feminist organizing in Israel
Reflections on feminism, war, and the politics of dissent
Feminism and war: stopping militarizers, critiquing power
Prosaic poem
Action: end US wars now!
Afterword
About the contributors
Index