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.”

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.

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 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 reconstructs security through narrative theory, asking who may tell threat stories and whose experience state-centered accounts exclude.

Laura Sjoberg and Sandra Via assemble seventeen interdisciplinary feminist essays on how gender organizes military institutions, wartime violence, peacebuilding, and public memory.

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