Who defines peace?

A feminist movement history spanning more than three decades and five continents, documenting how Women in Black used black clothing, silent vigils, and local coalitions against occupation, war, militarism, apartheid, and gendered violence.

Cynthia Enloe develops twelve connected principles for tracing the gender politics of recruitment, care, wounds, wartime rape, women soldiers, feminist organizing, and the long aftermath misleadingly called “postwar.”

Carol Cohn’s feminist security studies collection traces gender through war economies, sexual violence, displacement, militaries, peace processes, and postwar life.

Cynthia Enloe reads the Iraq War through eight Iraqi and American women, showing how gender shapes security, work, military service, and care - and why its costs continue after combat fades from view.

Ueno examines women’s incorporation into the nation, survivor testimony and feminist disputes over responsibility in the revised Japanese edition.

Lila Abu-Lughod asks how rescue narratives justify intervention, and how women's own priorities change the meaning of rights and freedom.

Dara Kay Cohen compares 91 civil wars and three field cases to examine how forced recruitment, armed-group cohesion, and wartime rape reports relate - and where that explanation reaches its limits.

A sweeping historical novel set on the Korean island of Jeju, following the intersecting fates of two female divers over several decades. From the Japanese colonial era through the Korean War and into the present, the story depicts the resilient lives, solidarity, and ultimate forgiveness of women caught in the tides of history.

Laura Sjoberg and Caron E. Gentry analyze how violent women in global politics are explained away through gendered stories of motherhood, monstrosity, or sexuality.

Julia Bacha follows Palestinian women whose care and clandestine organizing sustained the First Intifada, asking why leadership did not secure political representation.

Set amid Sri Lanka’s political violence, this drama follows a widowed mother of eight whose struggle for income reveals how war, sexual exploitation, and social respectability converge on women’s bodies.

At the end of the American Civil War, three women living alone on a desolate Southern farm must fight to defend themselves against two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the Union Army. This revisionist feminist western reexamines the brutality of war from a female perspective, exploring complex themes of women's self-defense rights, racial relations, and survival instincts.

Zainab Salbi redirects attention from war’s front line to the women who maintain daily life, survive gendered violence, and are then excluded from formal peace negotiations.

Shabana Basij-Rasikh recalls secret schools under the Taliban’s first regime and asks how girls’ right to learn depends on families, women teachers and collective support.

Karima Bennoune presents local resistance through an Algerian family, Pakistani theatre and a young law student’s refusal to abandon education.

Fatma's story connects the choice to wear a head covering with residence, professional recognition and care, challenging a simple test of Muslim women's freedom.

The Gender at Work Podcast is hosted by Aruna Rao and Joanne Sandler, featuring conversations with global feminist activists, scholars, and community practitioners. The show takes a critical perspective exploring issues of love, policy, war, and cross-cultural alliances, emphasizing the intersection of decolonization, anti-militarization, and emotional politics.