Women in Conflict Zones

• Cockburn, Cynthia: The Space Between Us: Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict,1998, Zed Books, 247 pages, ISBN 185649618X
  

  The author bears witness to ordinary people who routinely advocate for peace and deepens our understanding of the processes sustaining conflict in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and Bosnia/Herzegovina through a lens of close personal involvement with remarkable women's projects on reconciliation and cooperation and the search for a safe place to disentangle collective identities and nationalist thoughts and practices.

  
  
• Davis, Nira Yuval & Werbner, Pnina (eds.): Women, Citizenship and Difference (Post Colonial Encounters)Zed Books, 1999, ISBN 1856496465
  

  This volume brings together a group of international scholars from moral philosophy, law, political science and sociology to offer a reconceptualization of the idea of citizenship and presents a more holistic vision of collective, historically determined identities.

  
  
• Enloe, Cynthia: The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War, 1993, University of California Press, 326 pages, ISBN 0520083369
  

  The author places women at the center of international politics and using the lens of the Cold War--in the United States, Russia, Bosnia, El Salvador and Vietnam, among others-- illuminates connections between demilitarization and ideologies about motherhood and family, considers patriarchy and post cold war systems, and feminism and nationalism. Enloe's critical framework examines how to break out of cycles of militarism and war and contribute to a more humane world order.

  
  
• Indra, Doreen Marie (ed.): Engendering Forced Migration: Theory and Practice, Berghahn Books, 1998, ISBN 1571811354
  

  Contributors to this anthology incorporate a mix of ethnographic narrative from recent crises and pay specific attention to asylum practices that are unreceptive to women who are Muslim. Writers look at field experiences of international organizations, particularly those dedicated to health care and food to expose their unequal care and resource allocation and advance an argument for gender-sensitizing relief agencies.

  
  
• Kasic, Bilijana (ed.): Women and the Politics of Peace: Contributions to a Culture of Women's Resistance, 1997, Center for Women's Studies-Zagreb, 155 pages, ISBN 9539741408
  

  This collection represents proceedings of the International Women's Forum: Women and the Politics of Peace held in Zagreb, Croatia in 1996. Using case studies from Central and Eastern Europe, contributors put forth a diversity of voices on women and peace, pacifism, violence, international security and ideological and academic conceptions of women's identities and realities shaped by and shaping the circumstances of war.

  
  
• Lentin, Ronit (ed.): Gender and Catastrophe, 1997, Zed Books, 282 pages, ISBN 1856494465
  

  Contributors to this anthology include a wide variety of feminist academics and activists who explore ways in which women are targeted as ethnic subjects in extreme situations such as wars, genocide, famines, slavery, the Holocaust, mass rape and ethnic cleansing and suggest alternative frameworks within which to view events including the Rwandan massacre, comfort women during World War II, nuclear testing and reproductive policies in Tibet.

  
  
• Lorentzen, Lois Ann & Turpin, Jennifer (eds.): The Women and War Reader, 1998, New York University Press, 382 pages, ISBN 0814751458
  

  This reader brings together the work of foremost scholars on women and war to address questions of citizenship, ethnicity, women's agency, policy-making, women and the war complex, peacemaking and aspects of motherhood, while moving beyond simplistic gender dichotomies to unearth compelling tenets of the central problem of violence in society.

  
  
• Reardon, Betty A. & Scroeder, Patricia (introduction): Sexism and the War System, 1986, Syracuse University Press, 112 pages, ISBN 0815603487
  

  This book is considered a canon text on women in conflict and feminist perspectives on peace and transformation. The author challenge core concepts, basics assumptions and fundamental values which are intrinsic to war, analyzes enemies and victims and the militarist-sexist symbiosis and, finally considers peace movements and the road to convergence.

  
  
• Vickers, Jeanne: Women and War, 1993, Zed Books, 184 pages, ISBN 1856492303
  

  This book outlines the interrelationship between the condition of women and the occurrence of all forms of human aggression and presents a body of evidence that war remains the perennial problem of global society. It highlights practical campaigns and education and advocacy strategies for exposing the unequal oppression of women in war and its connection to international security, human rights issues, development, education and media.

  
  
• Wolf, Virginia: Three Guineas, Harcourt Brace,1963, ISBN 0156901773
  

  In this set of essays, the author address the question: what can women to prevent war?" and her answer presages many of the insights of 20th century feminist theory, linking violence and domination and violence in the home to the nature and evolution of fascism. Further essays address critical women's issues such as access to education, and the professions, poverty, patriarchy, compulsory marriage and the nature of disinterested, free thought.