Nimo's War, Emma's War

Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-520-26078-8
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

Reihe: University of California Press

Nimo, Maha, Safah, Shatha, Emma, Danielle, Kim, Charlene. In a book that once again blends her distinctive flair for capturing the texture of everyday life with shrewd political insights, Cynthia Enloe looks closely at the lives of eight ordinary women, four Iraqis and four Americans, during the Iraq War. Among others, Enloe profiles a Baghdad beauty parlor owner, a teenage girl who survived a massacre, an elected member of Parliament, the young wife of an Army sergeant, and an African American woman soldier. Each chapter begins with a close-up look at one woman’s experiences and widens into a dazzling examination of the larger canvas of war’s gendered dimensions. Bringing to light hidden and unexpected theaters of operation—prostitution, sexual assault, marriage, ethnic politics, sexist economies—these stories are a brilliant entryway into an eye-opening exploration of the actual causes, costs, and long-range consequences of war. This unique comparison of American and Iraqi women’s diverse and complex experiences sheds a powerful light on the different realities that together we call, perhaps too easily, “the Iraq war.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Enloe, Cynthia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

1. Eight Women, One War

The Iraqi Women

2. Nimo: Wartime Politics in a Beauty Parlor

3. Maha: A Widow Returns to Baghdad

4. Safah: The Girl from Haditha

5. Shatha: A Legislator in Wartime

The American Women

6. Emma and the Recruiters

7. Danielle: From Basketball Court to Baghdad Rooftop

8. Kim: “I’m in a Way Fighting My Own War”

9. Charlene: Picking Up the Pieces

10. Conclusion: The Long War

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia Enloe is Research Professor of Women's Studies and International Development at Clark University. She is the author of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives, The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War, and The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire, all from UC Press.
Cynthia Enloe won the Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement in Peace Studies Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA).