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"One of the most important and exciting books among the recent flurry of feminist collections that elucidates the inextricable links among militarism, war, economic globalization, and neoliberalism and gender."
- Margo Okazawa-Rey, Fielding Graduate University
"This book deftly draws on experience, both from deep within the USA and far from its shores, to show how the cost of militarization and war is exacted by the powerful and paid by the poorest and most excluded. It will inspire students and activists with its examples of resistance to the abuse of power in its many dimensions, and its fresh thinking on the true meaning of security"
-Cynthia Cockburn, feminist researcher and activist, City University London
"An invaluable book for our times with multiple strengths. The volume situates the United States in a healthy comparative perspective while also revealing how gender is racialized and racisms are gendered throughout the world.
-Cynthia Enloe, author of Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link
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From the history of state terrorism in Latin America, to state- and group-perpetrated plunder and genocide in Africa, to war and armed conflicts in the Middle East, militarization--the heightened role of organized aggression in society--continues to painfully shape the lives of millions of people around the world.
In Security Disarmed, scholars, policy planners, and activists come together to think critically about the human cost of violence and viable alternatives to armed conflict. Arranged in four parts--alternative paradigms of security, cross-national militarization, militarism in the United States, and pedagogical and cultural concerns--the book critically challenges militarization and voices a positive and encompassing vision of human security by analyzing the relationships among gender, race, and militarization. This collection of essays evaluates and resists the worldwide crisis of militarization, including but going beyond American military engagements in the twenty-first century.
Keywords
Keywords
militarism, globalization, inequality, security, war, armed conflict, political violence, feminism, anti-racism, resistance, peace
Contributors:
Roksana Bahramitash
The Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
Leonard C. Feldman
The Gender and Human Security Network
Janell Hobson
Karen Houppert
The International Congress of Women
Gwyn Kirk
Barbara Lee
Catherine Lutz
Bonnie Mann
Katherine T. McCaffrey
Patricia McFadden
Sandra Morgen
Julie Novkov
Simona Sharoni
Ron Smith
Cindy Sousa
Lynn Stephen
Barbara Sutton
Teresia K. Teaiwa
Publishing Details
Publishing Details
Title: Security Disarmed
Subtitle: Critical Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Militarization
Editors: Barbara Sutton, Sandra Morgen, and Julie Novkov
Subject: Sociology, Women's and Gender Studies
Paper ISBN 978-0-8135-4360-4
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8135-4359-8
Pages: 336 pages
Publication Date: October 2008
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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