Carol Cohn 
Women and Wars 
Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures

Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly
accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often
nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if
men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and
negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though,
those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every
turn in the (gendered) phenomena of war. Women have participated in
the making, fighting, and concluding of wars throughout history,
and their participation is only increasing at the turn of the 21st
century. Women experience war in multiple ways: as soldiers, as
fighters, as civilians, as caregivers, as sex workers, as sexual
slaves, refugees and internally displaced persons, as anti-war
activists, as community peace-builders, and more. This book at once
provides a glimpse into where women are in war, and gives readers
the tools to understood women’s (told and untold) war
experiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of global
social and political life.

Зміст

Boxes and Tables vi

Abbreviations viii

Contributors xiii

Foreword by Cynthia Enloe xv

Acknowledgments xvii

1 Women and Wars: Toward a Conceptual Framework 1

Carol Cohn

2 Women and the Political Economy of War 36

Angela Raven-Roberts

3 Sexual Violence and Women’s Health in War 54

Pamela De Largy

4 Women Forced to Flee: Refugees and Internally Displaced
Persons 80

Wenona Giles

5 Women and Political Activism in the Face of War and
Militarization 102

Carol Cohn and Ruth Jacobson

6 Women and State Military Forces 124

Jennifer G. Mathers

7 Women, Girls, and Non-State Armed Opposition Groups 146

Dyan Mazurana

8 Women and Peace Processes 169

Malathi de Alwis, Julie Mertus, and Tazreena Sajjad

9 Women, Girls, and Disarmament, Demobilization and
Reintegration (DDR) 194

Dyan Mazurana and Linda Eckerbom Cole

10 Women ‘After’ Wars 215

Ruth Jacobson

Notes 242

References 250

Index 279

Про автора

Carol Cohn is the author of Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures, published by Wiley.