Militarism - Books

This history documents Women in Black, a global feminist peace network opposing war, militarism, apartheid, occupation, and gendered violence.

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

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.

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.

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

This edited volume confronts US imperialism by connecting feminism, race, class, militarism, occupation, and transnational resistance.

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.

Jean Bethke Elshtain examines the myths of men as just warriors and women as beautiful souls in Western political imagination.