Nimo's War, Emma's War

Cynthia Enloe reads the Iraq War through the lives of four Iraqi women and four American women rather than through official military strategy.

Nimo's War, Emma's War

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This book belongs in FemRes because it brings war, security, and state violence back from abstract diplomacy into gender, labor, race, colonialism, and everyday life. For readers, it shows how militarism enters homes, factories, borders, media narratives, peace operations, and international law, not only battlefields. It gives users a concrete way to see how occupation and invasion reorganize ordinary women’s work, safety, family ties, and political imagination.

It is especially useful alongside FemRes topics on Feminist Security Studies, War and Peace, Militarism, Anti-Sexual Violence, Nationalism, and Decolonial Feminism.

Publication Info

Author: Cynthia Enloe
Published: June 2, 2010
ISBN: 9780520260788
Language: English

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