Feminism and War

Robin Riley is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University. She is co-editor of Interrogating Imperialism: Conversations on Gender, Race & War (2006). Robin is currently working on a project on how US college students think and talk about the war on Iraq.Chandra Talpade Mohanty is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. Mohanty is author of Feminism Without Borders (2003), co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (1991), and Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (1997).She works with two grassroots community organizations, Grassroots Leadership of North Carolina, and the Center for Immigrant Families in New York City.Minnie Bruce Pratt is Professor of Women's & Gender Studies and Writing at Syracuse University, and a member of the editorial board of Feminist Studies. Her essay, Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart has become a feminist classic. She is the author of six books of poetry, including Walking Back Up Depot Street (1999) and The Dirt She Ate (2004); and the recipient of many awards, including the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets, the American Library Association's Stonewall Award, and a Lambda Literary Award. Her book of creative nonfiction, S/HE explores the interconnections between women's liberation and transgender lives. Since coming out as a lesbian in 1975, Pratt has been active in women's issues, anti-racist work, and anti-imperialist initiatives.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Feminism and U.S. Wars: Mapping the Ground - Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Robin L. RileyPart I: Feminist Geopolitics of WarA Vocabulary for Feminist Praxis: On War and Radical Critique - Angela Y. DavisResexing Militarism for the Globe - Zillah EisensteinU.S. Sexual Exceptionalism: Feminists and Queers in the Service of Empire - Jasbir PuarInterrogating Americana: An African Feminist Critique - Patricia McFaddenIn Praise of Afrika's Children - Micere Githae MugoWhat's Left? After 'Imperial Feminist' Hijackings: From Personal Pain to Collective Change - Huibin Amelia ChewPart II: Feminists Mobilizing Critiques of WarWomen of Color Veterans: A Dialogue on War, Militarism and Feminism - Setsu Shigematsu with Anuradha Kristina Bhagwati and Eli PaintedCrowOn Euro-Colonial Sovereignty: Decolonizing the Racial Grammar of International Law - Elizabeth PhiliposeThe Other V-word: The Politics of Victimhood Fueling George W. Bush's War Machine - Alyson M. ColeDeconstructing the Myth of Liberation @ riverbendblog.com: Baghdad Burning and the Politics of Resistance - Nadine Sinno"Rallying Public Opinion" and Other Misuses of Feminism: How U.S. Militarism in Afghanistan Is Gendered through Congressional Discourse - Jennifer L. FluriPart III: Women's Struggles and the Wars in Iraq and AfghanistanAfghan Women: The Limits of Colonial Rescue - Shahnaz KhanGendered, Racialized and Sexualized Torture: Orientalism and the Politics of Torture at Abu-Ghraib - Isis NusairWhose Bodies Count? Feminist Geopolitics and Lessons from Iraq - Jennifer Hyndman"Freedom for Women": Stories of Baghdad and New York - Berenice Malka FisherThe War on Iraq - Micere Githae MugoPart IV: Feminists Organizing Against Imperialism and WarViolence Against Women: The U.S. War on Women - LeiLani Dowell"We Say CodePink": Feminist Direct Action and the "War on Terror" - Judy RohrerEvery Bomb Dropped on Iraq Falls on U.S. Cities: Women, Gentrification, and Harlem - Nellie Hester BaileyWar Does Not Affect All Women Equally: U.S. Economic Wars and Latin America - Berta Joubert-CeciFeminist Organizing in Israel: Against Militarism, War and Occupation - Melanie Kaye/KantrowitzEngaging Power and Injustice in the U.S.A.: Strategies for Anti-War Organizing - Leslie CaganFeminism and War: Stopping Militarizers, Critiquing Power - Cynthia EnloeProsaic Poem - Micere Githae MugoEnd U.S. War Now!Afterword - Linda Carty

'A cogent, passionate and damning anti-racist feminist exposè and dissection of the politics of contemporary US warmongering and its devastating impacts. An essential reference point for all those committed to mobilising against imperialist capitalism, war and globalisation.'Ailbhe Smyth, Women's Studies