War and Peace - 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.

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.

Laura Sjoberg offers an accessible account of why gender matters in war-making, war-fighting, and stories about conflict.

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 develops a narrative approach to security that centers lived stories and challenges state-centered realism.

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

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

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

Cynthia Cockburn studies women’s antiwar activism across Sierra Leone, Colombia, India, the former Yugoslavia, and Israel/Palestine.

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

Cynthia Cockburn studies women’s cooperation across Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and Bosnia-Hercegovina to understand gender, nationalism, and democratic difference.

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