MilitarismBooks

A feminist movement history spanning more than three decades and five continents, documenting how Women in Black used black clothing, silent vigils, and local coalitions against occupation, war, militarism, apartheid, and gendered violence.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

This collection examines how the United States legitimates war through “women’s liberation” and connects antiracist feminism to anti-imperialist organizing.

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.

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