Feminist Security Studies - Books

Cynthia Enloe distills feminist lessons from women’s experiences of wars in Ukraine, Myanmar, Somalia, Vietnam, Rwanda, Algeria, Syria, and Northern Ireland.

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 account of why gender matters in war-making, war-fighting, and stories about conflict.

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

J. Ann Tickner gathers essays from a major feminist international relations career, reflecting on method, legitimacy, security, and disciplinary critique.

Cynthia Enloe investigates financial crashes, political crises, peacekeeping, and revolutions by asking what changes when women are treated as politically serious.

Laura Sjoberg argues that gender and gender subordination are central to the making, fighting, and interpretation of global conflict.

Carol Cohn’s edited volume gathers feminist analyses of women, gender, armed conflict, memory, displacement, and postwar futures.

Annick T. R. Wibben develops a narrative approach to security that centers lived stories and challenges state-centered realism.

Laura Sjoberg and Sandra Via collect interdisciplinary feminist essays on the intersubjective relations between gender, war, and militarism.

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

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

Cynthia Cockburn studies women’s antiwar activism across Sierra Leone, Colombia, India, the former Yugoslavia, and Israel/Palestine.

Cynthia Enloe collects essays that search for women inside empire, militaries, NGOs, globalization, and post-conflict politics.

Cynthia Enloe traces how women's lives are militarized through bases, nationalism, labor, marriage, and peacekeeping.