Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War

Cynthia Enloe

Published by University of California Press 2010

Nimo's War, Emma's War

Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War

Cynthia Enloe

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520945951

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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."

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Enloe Cynthia :

Cynthia Enloe is Research Professor of Women's Studies and International Development at Clark University. She is the author of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives, The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War, and The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire, all from UC Press.
Cynthia Enloe won the Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement in Peace Studies Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. Eight Women, One War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Iraqi Women
2. Nimo: Wartime Politics in a Beauty Parlor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3. Maha: A Widow Returns to Baghdad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4. Safah: The Girl from Haditha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
5. Shatha: A Legislator in Wartime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
The American Women
6. Emma and the Recruiters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
7. Danielle: From Basketball Court to Baghdad Rooftop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
8. Kim: “I’m in a Way Fighting My Own War” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
9. Charlene: Picking Up the Pieces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Conclusion: The Long War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 336

eBook

Published: June 2, 2010
ISBN: 9780520945951