...Ayaka Yoshimizu Abstract This article examines “Hello, War Brides,” a series of short, auto/biographical essays authored by two Japanese war brides from the state of Washington. I view this text as a product of collaborative “memory work.” Based on a textual analysis of its narratives and form, I...

... of a new sovereign Muslim-majority state. In the context of the nascent Cold War and the Pakistani state’s efforts to develop its own relationship with the United States, one that was distinct from that of India and yet motivated almost entirely by concerns about the greater military might of this large...

... the AngolanPeople's War,1961-1975 Abstract Theassertiotnhatthemid-twentietchenturyBlack.freedosmtruggleascrosstheAfticandiaspora wasa masculineraisonethatcontinuetsostrikea chordwithmanyAfticanwomenwhose voicehs averemainedabsent.fromtherhetoriconnationaliberationstruggleascrossthe continentI.naniffortto...

...Leigh-Anne Francis Abstract In the post–Civil War South, black women litigants made conscious tactical appeals to white male judges’ racism, particularly the racist-sexist stereotypes at the heart of the white paternalism ethos, in order to win lawsuits against whites who defrauded them. African...

...Sunera Thobani Abstract Following a speech against the war on terror the author presented at a conference on Violence Against Women, she was publicly attacked and threatened for “hate-mongering.” This paper was written in the aftermath of the controversy that followed. The author’s speech...

... the invasion and occupation of Iraq and a broader, globalized “War on Terror,” the authors wanted to offer an antiracist, antinationalist feminist analysis that insisted recognizing the importance of histories of colonialism and empire in the structuring of state and interstate violence. Copyright © 2002...

...Paola Bacchetta; Tina Campt; Inderpal Grewal; Caren Kaplan; Minoo Moallem; Jennifer Terry TRANSNATIONAL AGAINST WAR FEMINIST PRACTICES A Statementby PaolaBacchettaT, inaCampt,InderpaGl rewal, CarenKaplan,MinooMoallem,andJenniferTerry October 2001 As feminist theorists of transnational...

.... The retaliatory U.S. bombing of Afghanistan, for which the primary objective was expressly to capture Osama bin Laden and remove the terrorist-harboring Taliban, also aimed at "liberating" Afghan women. My paper discusses the apparent consequences of the American "war on terror" for a private American donor...

... in the province) began in 1998 and intensified through 1999. Human Rights Watch (2001) estimates as many as 850,000 were expelled during this period while several hundred thousand more were internally displaced. After the war, estimates ranged from two thousand to four thousand deaths. While reported rapes were...

... resources responsibly and sustainably in a dictatorship, because in such a situation you have a few people controlling the resources at the expense of the many, and therefore, you cannot have peace. Sooner or later, you have conflict. And when we look at many of the wars that have been fought today and have...

...Madeleine Bunting WOMEN AND WAR MadeleinBe unting GUARDIAN September 20, 2001 While the media's response to the destruction in America has been deafening, the voices of women have grown strangely quiet. Not for over a generation has an event so transfixed the world. Everywhere, on buses, at corner...

...Ayesha Khan SONG OF WAR AyeshaKhan The international community has re-discovered Afghanistan after ignoring the civilwar that has raged there since 1992. The reason for this is yet another war, this time waged by the United States against the ruling Taliban and their guest Osama bin Laden. War...

...Sunera Thobani WAR FRENZY SuneraThobani October 12, 2001 My recent speech at a women's conference on violence against women has generated much controversy. In the aftermath of the terrible attacks of September n, I argued that the U.S. response oflaunching "America's new war" would increase...

..., and sexual violence. In this article, I look back at the US feminist “sex wars” as a crucial turning point in feminist thought on sexuality and examine different aspects feminists address when speaking about sexuality. I argue that the multiplicity of levels of thinking sex brought up by US feminists opposes...

... in that it attempts to address the unique complications women of colorfacewhen deconstructing systemsof racism and patriarchy. LEIGH JOHNSON COVERT WARS IN THE BEDROOM AND NATION 151 Collins contends that the term motherwork"soften[s] the existing dichotomies in feminist theorizing about motherhood," and she argues...

...Amrita Basu; Paula Giddings; Inderpal Grewal; Kamala Visweswaran Abstract The links among feminism, race, and transnationalism, which are key to the Meridians project, are also crucial to understanding the events of 9/11 and the war on Afghanistan. Some pieces in this archive provide feminist...

... implementation of political terror through abusive laws, militarized violence, protracted wars against civilians and insurgents alike, and gender abuse. Women poets from the region, such as Monalisa Changkija, Temsüla Ao, Mamang Dai, and others, have played a leading role in exposing and denouncing this violence...

... to theorize how and why her mother’s life trajectory was shaped by her strife to have a dignified death, in other words, to be able to die in Palestine. To illuminate the significance of her mother’s approach to death and its relationship to being Palestinian, being refugee, and living under colonial war...

... sociologist Patricia Hill Collins’s conceptualization of a Black gender ideology, the author proposes that in cinematic traditions, an idealized Muktijuddho gender ideology influences and entrenches gendered social norms and reinforces perceptions of masculinity and femininity in war. These perceptions serve...