Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520260788)

Nimo, Maha, Safah, Shatha, Emma, Danielle, Kim, Charlene. In a book that once again blends her distinctive flair for capturing the texture of everyday life with shrewd political insights, Cynthia Enloe looks closely at the lives of eight ordinary women, four Iraqis and four Americans, during the Iraq War. Among others, Enloe profiles a Baghdad beauty parlor owner, a teenage girl who survived a massacre, an elected member of Parliament, the young wife of an Army sergeant, and an African American woman soldier. Each chapter begins with a close-up look at one woman's experiences and widens into a dazzling examination of the larger canvas of war's gendered dimensions. Bringing to light hidden and unexpected theaters of operation--prostitution, sexual assault, marriage, ethnic politics, sexist economies--these stories are a brilliant entryway into an eye-opening exploration of the actual causes, costs, and long-range consequences of war. This unique comparison of American and Iraqi women's diverse and complex experiences sheds a powerful light on the different realities that together we call, perhaps too easily, "the Iraq war."

Author: Cynthia Enloe
ISBN-10: 0520260783
ISBN-13: 9780520260788
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2010
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.04w x 0.78d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2011
Publishers Weekly 05/17/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 156