The Women and War Reader

TitleThe Women and War Reader
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1998
AuthorsLorentzen, Lois Ann, and Jennifer E. Turpin
Number of Pages382
PublisherNew York University Press
CityNew York
Abstract

War affects women in profoundly different ways than men. Women play many roles during wartime: they are "gendered" as mothers, as soldiers, as munitions makers, as caretakers, as sex workers. How is it that womanhood in the context of war may mean, for one woman, tearfully sending her son off to war, and for another, engaging in civil disobedience against the state? Why do we think of war as "men's business" when women are more likely to be killed in war and to become war refugees than men? 

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