Feminist Security Studies

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.”

Laura Sjoberg examines rare but revealing cases of female perpetrators of wartime sexual violence and how law and media make sense of them.

Dara Kay Cohen uses comparative data to explain why some armed groups perpetrate wartime rape at massive scale while others do not.

Cynthia Enloe links militarism to corporate supply chains, national security rhetoric, consumer culture, prisons, and global labor.

Laura Sjoberg offers an accessible but rigorous account of how gender orders shape the causes, conduct, narration, and aftermath of war.

Cynthia Enloe makes international politics visible through women working in tourism, domestic labor, diplomacy, military bases, and export economies.

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.