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Nimo's War, Emma's War

Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War

Cynthia Enloe author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:4th Jun '10

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This book discusses about 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'.

"Stories help illustrate how gendered politics change over the course of a war and how this thing we call war itself changes over time." Ms. Magazine "Enloe's new work is a great addition to her oeuvre on women, militarism and consumer culture in international perspective." -- Carrie Rentschler Times Higher Education

ISBN: 9780520260788

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm

Weight: 454g

336 pages