Imperialism Critique

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

This collection shows how the United States legitimates war through “women's liberation,” joining antiracist and anticapitalist feminism to occupation, torture, economic warfare, and transnational resistance.

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.