WGST 330
Global Feminisms:
Women in War and Peacemaking

MATERIALS ON RESERVE

Library Copies

Aafjes, Astrid.  Gender Violence:  The Hidden War Crime, 1998.

Includes accounts of the war crime tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda and a call for a permanent international criminal court.

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock.  In Search of Islamic Feminism, 1998.  

Accounts of the author's travels and meetings with women's rights activists in Uzbekistan, Israel/Palestine, and many other locations.

Jacobs, Susie, Ruth Jacobson, and Jennifer Marchbank, eds.  States of Conflict:  Gender, Violence, and Resistance, 2000.  

Essays from many nations examine violent conflict in a global context.  Especially relevant:  Chapter 6, "Citizen-Soldier?  Class, Race, Gender, Sexuality and the US Military".

Joseph, Suad, and Susan Slyomovics.  Women and power in the Middle East.  2001.

Women's status, citizenship, and activism in middle eastern nations.

Mertus, Julie.  Local Action, Global Change:  Learning About the Human Rights of Women and Girls.  1999.

Describes workshops for grassroots education.  Chapter on violence includes workshops on armed conflict and peace building.  There is also a chapter on refugees and displaced women.

Meyer, Mary K. and Elisabeth Prugl.  Gender Politics in Global Governance, 1999.  

Includes chapters on gender in United Nations peacekeeping operations and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Meyer, Thomas.  Identity Mania:  fundamentalism and the politicization of cultural differences, 2001.

Understanding religious extremism as a political force.

Rashid, Ahmed.  Taliban : militant Islam, oil, and fundamentalism in Central Asia.  2000.

One of the most important recent books on the Taliban:  how they got there, what they did, the impact of Western interests.

Sajor, Indai Lourdes.  Common Grounds:  violence against women in war and armed conflict situations, 1998.

Report from the 1997 International Conference on Violence Against Women in War and Armed Conflict Situations.  A lot of material, including international law, rape and forced prostitution.  Offers perspectives on how new it is for international bodies to direct attention to women's victimization in war.

Sharratt, Sara, and Ellyn Kaschak, eds.  Assault on the Soul:  Women in the Former Yugoslavia, 1999.

A must for anyone working on former Yugoslavia or on wartime rape.  This collection includes interviews with members of the International Criminal Tribunal as well as testimonies by European feminist psychologists who worked in crisis centers for the survivors of rape.  A powerful read.

Smith, Bonnie G., ed.  Global Feminisms Since 1945, 2000.

Includes a chapter on women's roles in the Vietnamese revolution.

Webb, Gisela, ed.  Windows of Faith:  Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in North America, 2000.

An important source for anyone wondering about the status of women in Islam.

Weisbard, Phyllis Holman, ed.  Feminist Collections, special issue on Islam, Women, and Feminism.  2001.

Reviews of books and films on women and Islam.

Personal Copies

Afghanistan Forum, 1996-7.

Compilations of news articles published during the first two years of the Taliban's dominance in Afghanistan.  Includes art, cartoons, opinion, culture, much more.

Blum, William.  Rogue State:  A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, 2000.  (New edition published after 9/11/01.)

Investigative journalist Blum offers a perspective on US military hegemony that you won't often see in the mainstream press.  Short, well-documented essays on terrorism and human rights, weapons of mass destruction, and US military actions around the world, addressing such questions as:  "Why do terrorists keep picking on the United States?"  See p. 158 for brief background on the operation fictionalized in the current film "Black Hawk Down."

Cooke, Miriam.  Women and the War Story, 1996.

An important study of memoirs and fiction by women about the Algerian revolution, the Six-Day War, the Intifada, the Iraq-Iran War, and the Gulf War. 

Ellis, Deborah.  The Breadwinner, 2000.

A novel for children about Parvana, an Afghan girl who dresses as a boy in order to support her family.  Ellis based this book on the research she conducted in Afghan refugee camps.  She's also the author of Women of the Afghan War, which we'll be reading for class.

Elshtain, Jean Bethke.  Women and War, 1987, rev. 1995.

An influential study examining how the stereotypes of men as "just warriors" and women as "beautiful souls" contribute to the exclusion of women from political life.  Elshtain is best known as a "just war" theorist; this book includes some of this analysis--how do we know when it is morally right to wage war?

Enloe, Cynthia.  "'Womenandchildren':  Propaganda Tools of Patriarchy."  Xerox of chapter from Bates, Greg, ed., Mobilizing Democracy:  Changing the US Role in the Middle East, 1991.

Enloe coins the term "womenandchildren" in writing about how sentimental images justifying militarism render many women's roles invisible.  She covers the same material in more depth in a chapter of The Morning After:  Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War (1993).

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, ed.  Children in the Muslim Middle East.  1995.

A big book with lots of wonderful stuff, including songs and games.  Part IV is all about children, politics, and war, including girls' participation in combat in Lebanon.

Hazen, Don, Tate Hausman, Tamara Straus, and Michelle Chihara, eds.  After 9/11:  Solutions for a Saner World, 2002.  2 copies.

A collection of short news and analysis articles published in the alternative and online press during the crisis.  Sections:  What Has Changed (see especially articles by Barbara Kingsolver, Barbara Lee, Sharon Lerner, Arianna Huffington, and Ruth Rosen), How Did We Get Here (see Arundhati Roy and Barbara Ehrenreich), Solutions.

Khan, Rukhsana.  The Roses in My Carpet, 1998.

An illustrated children's book about an Afghan boy learning a trade while suffering from post-traumatic stress.  Based on the author's conversations with a refugee child.

Klein, Misha, and Adrian McIntyre.  September 11:  Contexts and Consequences, An Anthology.  2001. 

A comprehensive packet (600+ pages) prepared by two anthropologists at the University of California-Berkeley.  Section I:  Geographical, Historical, and Cultural Background (see especially Laura Nader, "Orientalism, Occidentalism and the Control of Women" and Elizabeth Fernea and Robert Fernea, "Behind the Veil").  Section II:  Terrorism.  Section III:  War and Violence.  Section IV:  Post-9/11 Commentaries (see especially feminist authors Robin Morgan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Arundhati Roy).

Marsden, Peter.  The Taliban:  War and Religion in Afghanistan, 2002. 

New edition, expanded and updated since September 11.  Includes a chapter on the gender policies of the Taliban.

Mazurana, Dyan E., and Susan R. McKay.  Women & Peacebuilding, 1999.

This short publication by the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development gives an overview of women's peacebuilding roles in grassroots organizations, in NGOs, and through the United Nations.

McKay, Lawrence, Jr.  Caravan, 1995. 

An illustrated children's book about a boy joining his father on a trade journey through Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains.

Mertus, Julie A.  War's Offensive on Women:  The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan.  2000.

Applying a gender perspective to war relief efforts of humanitarian agencies.

Mies, Maria, and Vandana Shiva.  Ecofeminism.  1993.

For an ecofeminist perspective on war and peace, trace "militarization," "war," and other key terms using the index to this important book.

Townsend, Janet, Emma Zapata, Jo Rowlands, Pilar Alberti, and Marta Mercado.  Women and Power:  Fighting Patriarchies and Poverty.  1999.

This book focuses on the rural Mexican women of the Zapatista movement.

Yuval-Davis, Nira, and Pnina Werbner.  Women, Citizenship, and Difference, 1999.

Chapters include "Female Education and Citizenship in Afghanistan," "Refugee Women in Serbia," and "Political Motherhood and the Feminisation of Citizenship."