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.

Acknowledgements Introduction: Feminism and U.S. Wars: Mapping the Ground - Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Robin L. Riley Part I: Feminist Geopolitics of War A Vocabulary for Feminist Praxis: On War and Radical Critique - Angela Y. Davis Resexing Militarism for the Globe - Zillah Eisenstein U.S. Sexual Exceptionalism: Feminists and Queers in the Service of Empire - Jasbir Puar Interrogating Americana: An African Feminist Critique - Patricia McFadden In Praise of Afrika's Children - Micere Githae Mugo What's Left? After 'Imperial Feminist' Hijackings: From Personal Pain to Collective Change - Huibin Amelia Chew Part II: Feminists Mobilizing Critiques of War Women of Color Veterans: A Dialogue on War, Militarism and Feminism - Setsu Shigematsu with Anuradha Kristina Bhagwati and Eli PaintedCrow On Euro-Colonial Sovereignty: Decolonizing the Racial Grammar of International Law - Elizabeth Philipose The Other V-word: The Politics of Victimhood Fueling George W. Bush's War Machine - Alyson M. Cole Deconstructing 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. Fluri Part III: Women's Struggles and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Afghan Women: The Limits of Colonial Rescue - Shahnaz Khan Gendered, Racialized and Sexualized Torture: Orientalism and the Politics of Torture at Abu-Ghraib - Isis Nusair Whose Bodies Count? Feminist Geopolitics and Lessons from Iraq - Jennifer Hyndman "Freedom for Women": Stories of Baghdad and New York - Berenice Malka Fisher The War on Iraq - Micere Githae Mugo Part IV: Feminists Organizing Against Imperialism and War Violence Against Women: The U.S. War on Women - LeiLani Dowell "We Say CodePink": Feminist Direct Action and the "War on Terror" - Judy Rohrer Every Bomb Dropped on Iraq Falls on U.S. Cities: Women, Gentrification, and Harlem - Nellie Hester Bailey War Does Not Affect All Women Equally: U.S. Economic Wars and Latin America - Berta Joubert-Ceci Feminist Organizing in Israel: Against Militarism, War and Occupation - Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz Engaging Power and Injustice in the U.S.A.: Strategies for Anti-War Organizing - Leslie Cagan Feminism and War: Stopping Militarizers, Critiquing Power - Cynthia Enloe Prosaic Poem - Micere Githae Mugo End U.S. War Now! Afterword - Linda Carty