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978-0-7391-1609-8 • Hardback • May 2006 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
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Dr. Laura Sjoberg is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Chapter 1 Iraq, Just War, and Feminisms
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 The Problematic Preeminence of the Just War Tradition
Chapter 4 Feminist Foundations
Chapter 5 Feminist Just War Theory
Chapter 6 Feminist Motivating Moralities for Just Wars
Chapter 7 Feminisms Go to War: Jus Ad Bellum
Chapter 8 Feminisms Fight Wars: Jus As Bello
Chapter 9 The Wars in Iraq
Chapter 10 Histories for the Wars in Iraq
Chapter 11 Gendered States Fight Sexualized Wars
Chapter 12 Attacking Civilians: The Implications of Sanctions
Chapter 13 Just War Against Terror? Feminisms Confront Elshtain
Chapter 14 Women in the Gulf Wars
Chapter 15 Implementing Empathetic Cooperation
Chapter 16 A Reconstructive Project for Feminist Just War Theory
Chapter 17 Feminist Reconstructions of the Wars in Iraq
Chapter 18 Conclusion
A new and distinctive feminist voice on war! Sjoberg grabs hold of the trickiest issues of justice and war making, as well as war avoiding, and shakes everything up. I especially welcome her use of empathetic cooperation to re-frame feminist thinking on war. This rigorous and reflective study will be a benchmark work for years to come....
— Christine Sylvester
Sjoberg has developed her dissertation, a feminist analysis of the Iraq wars, into a vibrant addition to the just war literature. . . . Recommended.....
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A significant strength of the text lies in its method of articulating potential counter-discourses to those actually employed in the case of the Iraq Wars, which draw inaginatively on a feminist war ethic....Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq provides thought-provoking reading for students and academics alike......
— 2008
What greater challenge for feminists than justifying war and the (gendered) violence it entails? Sjoberg bravely goes where others fear to tread and in this timely book delivers a persuasive account of the Iraqi wars and how feminisms enable more adequateand applicable just war theory....
— Spike Peterson