Feminist Security StudiesBooks

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.”

Using cases from Nazi Germany, Serbia, and ISIS, Laura Sjoberg asks how wartime sexual violence by women is sensationalized while perpetrators’ agency, accountability, and legal position remain obscured.

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.

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.

J. Ann Tickner reflects on twenty-five years of feminist IR, from reformulating realism and security to methodology, 9/11, religious violence, race, and empire.

Cynthia Enloe links financial crisis, recession, peacekeeping and revolution to a feminist question: who gets to define what counts as serious?

Laura Sjoberg’s feminist theory of war shows how gender shapes what counts as conflict, who is imagined to act, and whose lives are treated as expendable.

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

Annick T. R. Wibben uses narrative analysis to show how security stories define threats, authorize responses, and exclude situated experiences.

Edited by Laura Sjoberg and Sandra E. Via, these seventeen feminist essays examine how military institutions, wartime violence, peacebuilding, and public memory reproduce gendered power.

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.

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 follows women’s antiwar networks across several conflicts, tracing how nationalism, masculinity, racism, and empire make war while examining peace activism’s own contradictions.

Cynthia Enloe turns ‘Where are the women, and who benefits when they are ignored?’ into a method for tracing global power through sneaker factories, militaries, nationalist war, and postwar institutions.

Cynthia Enloe traces militarization through consumer culture, military labor, family life, and nationalism, asking how gender makes these ties seem ordinary.