Feminism and War

Confronting US Imperialism

Robin Riley, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Robin Riley, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Minnie Bruce Pratt

• Éditeur: Zed Books
• Année: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781848136687
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Sciences sociales
• Sous-sujet: Études relatives au genre

Women across the globe are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by the USA. But there has been little public space for dialogue about the complex relationship between feminism, women, and war. The editors of Feminism and War have brought together a diverse set of leading theorists and activists who examine the questions raised by ongoing American military initiatives, such as: What are the implications of an imperial nation/state laying claim to women's liberation?
What is the relation between this claim and resulting American foreign policy and military action?
Did American intervention and invasion in fact result in liberation for women in Afghanistan and Iraq?
What multiple concepts are embedded in the phrase "women's liberation"?
How are these connected to the specifics of religion, culture, history, economics, and nation within current conflicts?
What is the relation between the lives of Afghan and Iraqi women before and after invasion, and that of women living in the US?
How do women who define themselves as feminists resist or acquiesce to this nation/state claim in current theory and organizing? Feminism and War reveals and critically analyzes the complicated ways in which America uses gender, race, class, nationalism, imperialism to justify, legitimate, and continue war. Each chapter builds on the next to develop an anti-racist, feminist politics that places imperialist power, and forms of resistance to it, central to its comprehensive analysis.

Index

Abdi, Cawo, 11

Abrams, Yvette, 38

Abu Ghraib prison, 23, 25, 47, 78, 97, 98, 109, 113, 126, 137, 179, 182, 183, 184, 185, 189, 190, 191, 216, 219; female detainees in, 78, 189; rape in, 189, 190; Taguba Report on, 188–90

abuse see violence

activism, 86, 87, 89, 195, 225, 226, 228, 230, 236, 237, 250, 255, 262

Adams, Barry D., 54

Afghan war, 27, 119, 143, 144, 146, 148, 150, 151, 161, 162, 173, 187, 195; civilian casualties in, 194, 199

Afghan women, 50, 81, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 153, 161, 162, 163, 164, 169, 172

Afghan Women and Children Relief Act (AWCRA) (USA) (2001), 119, 120

Afghanistan: 1998 bombing by US military, 146; culture of, 171; drug trade in, 167, 172; government of, 173, 174; invasion of, 50, 51; Pashtun nationalist movement in, 143; prostitution in, 169; reconstruction of, 151, 153, 166; refugees in, 168; Soviet invasion of, 144; Sunni Islamist movement in, 143; violence against women in, 170; warlords in, 167; women’s movement in, 147; women’s rights in, 148, 163, 165, 168, 171, 173

Africa, US involvement in, 62, 64

African women, 64

African-American women, 121, 221

Agamben, Giorgio, 47, 52, 53, 151

Ahmed, Leila, 162, 185; Women and Gender in Islam, 185

Ahmed, Sara, 48

Algerian women, 186

Alrawi, A...