Women and Wars Cohn Carol
Women and Wars Cohn Carol Where are the women? 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. In traditional…
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Women and Wars Cohn Carol
Where are the women? 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. In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen.
Women can be found at every turn in the (gendered) phenomena of war. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. 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