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. How do women who define themselves as feminists resist or acquiesce to this nation/state claim in current theory and organizing?įeminism and War reveals and critically analyzes the complicated ways in which America uses gender, race, class, nationalism, imperialism to justify, legitimate, and continue war. What is the relation between the lives of Afghan and Iraqi women before and after invasion, and that of women living in the US? How are these connected to the specifics of religion, culture, history, economics, and nation within current conflicts? What multiple concepts are embedded in the phrase 'women’s liberation'? Did American intervention and invasion in fact result in liberation for women in Afghanistan and Iraq? What is the relation between this claim and resulting American foreign policy and military action? What are the implications of an imperial nation/state laying claim to women's liberation? The editors of Feminism and War have brought together a diverse set of leading theorists and activists who examine the questions raised by ongoing American military initiatives, such as: This collection highlights the concerns running throughout her pioneering work: the politics of difference and solidarity, decolonizing and democratizing feminist practice, the crossing of borders.

But there has been little public space for dialogue about the complex relationship between feminism, women, and war. Women across the globe are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by the USA.

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