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OverviewAt War with Women reveals how post-9/11 politics of gender and development have transformed US military power. In the mid-2000s, the US military used development as a weapon as it revived counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military assembled all-female teams to reach households and wage war through development projects in the battle for ""hearts and minds."" Despite women technically being banned from ground combat units, the all-female teams were drawn into combat nonetheless. Based on ethnographic fieldwork observing military trainings, this book challenges liberal feminist narratives that justified the Afghanistan War in the name of women's rights and celebrated women's integration into combat as a victory for gender equality. Jennifer Greenburg critically interrogates a new imperial feminism and its central role in securing US hegemony. Women's incorporation into combat through emotional labor has reinforced gender stereotypes, with counterinsurgency framing female soldiers as global ambassadors for women's rights. This book provides an analysis of US imperialism that keeps the present in tension with the past, clarifying where colonial ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality have resurfaced and how they are changing today. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jennifer GreenburgPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9781501767739ISBN 10: 1501767739 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 15 February 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Introduction 1. Doctrinal Turning Points in the New Imperial Wars 2. The ""Social Work"" of War: Techniques and Struggles to Remake Military Labor 3. Colonial ""Lessons Learned"": The Contemporary Soldier Becomes the Historical Colonizer 4. Soothing Occupation: Gender and the Strategic Deployment of Emotional Labor 5. A New Imperial Feminism: Color-Blind Racism and the Special Operation of Women's Rights Conclusion"ReviewsAt War with Women examines how the US military, following 9/11, linked counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq to development that targeted the household * Choice * At War with Women examines how the US military, following 9/11, linked counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq to development that targeted the household * Choice * At War with Women sheds light on several under-researched aspects of teh post-9/11 imperial wars in relation to gender, humanitarianism, and counter-insurgency. The book is empirically and methodologically rich, and it will be of interest to audiences interested in war, genderstudies, and decolonial approaches. * International Affairs * Author InformationJennifer Greenburg is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Sheffield. Follow her on X @jennygreenburg. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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