War and PeaceBooks

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.”

Using cases from Nazi Germany, Serbia, and ISIS, Laura Sjoberg asks how wartime sexual violence by women is sensationalized while perpetrators’ agency, accountability, and legal position remain obscured.

Dara Kay Cohen compares 91 civil wars and three field cases to examine how forced recruitment, armed-group cohesion, and wartime rape reports relate - and where that explanation reaches its limits.

Laura Sjoberg offers an accessible but rigorous account of how gender orders shape the causes, conduct, narration, and aftermath of war.

Lila Abu-Lughod dismantles the rescue narrative that turns Muslim women into a uniform victim class and uses their suffering to authorize war, humanitarian intervention, and moral superiority.

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.

Carol Cohn’s feminist security studies collection traces gender through war economies, sexual violence, displacement, militaries, peace processes, and postwar life.

Annick T. R. Wibben uses narrative analysis to show how security stories define threats, authorize responses, and exclude situated experiences.

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.

Cynthia Enloe reads the Iraq War through eight Iraqi and American women, showing how gender shapes security, work, military service, and care - and why its costs continue after combat fades from view.

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

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 traces militarization through consumer culture, military labor, family life, and nationalism, asking how gender makes these ties seem ordinary.

Cynthia Cockburn examines women’s cooperative projects in Belfast, Israel/Palestine, and Bosnia-Herzegovina to ask how democracy can cross conflict without erasing difference.

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