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Book SynopsisFeminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism provides critical feminist and womanist analyses of U.S. militarism that challenge the ongoing U.S. neoliberal military-industrial complex and its multivalent violence that destroys people's lives, especially women and other vulnerable populations. It highlights the intentional critique of U.S. militarism from feminist/womanist perspectives that seek to show the ways in which gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, and violence intersect to threaten women's lives, especially women of color's lives, and the broader environment upon which women's lives are dependent. Most of all, this volume challenges the readers to understand the U.S. as the warfare, counterterror, carceral state and its devastating effects on the everyday lives of women, especially women of color, locally, nationally, and globally. This volume also helps readers understand the racialized gendered impacts of U.S. militarism in conjunction with the ongoing global economies of disposses
Trade ReviewThis book provides much for reflection on the complexification of notions of violence. It makes cogent points about the role of growing militarization and how narratives of safety, security, and violence against women are used to support the proliferation of the military industrial complex into many realms of religion and society. -- Neomi De Anda, University of Dayton
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Nami Kim and Wonhee Anne Joh CHAPTER ONE “The Militarism of Racialization, Colonization, and Heteropatriarchy” by Andrea Smith CHAPTER TWO “Manifesting Evil: The Doctrine of Discovery as Christianized Genocide in the Lives of Indigenous Women and Their Communities” by Lisa Dellinger CHAPTER THREE “From My Lai to Ferguson: Collaterality, Grievous Deaths, Militarized Orientalism, Benevolence, and Racism” by Mai-Anh Tran CHAPTER FOUR “The Shame Culture of Empire: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword as Handbook for Cold War Imperialism” by B. Yuki Schwartz CHAPTER FIVE “The Remains of the War Ruins: U.S. Military Prostitution in South Korea” by K. Christine Pae CHAPTER SIX “Blinking Red: The Escalation of a Militarized Police Force and Its Challenges to Black Communities” by Pamela Lightsey CHAPTER SEVEN “The Muslim Ban and (Un)Safe America” by Nami Kim CHAPTER EIGHT “Feminist Strategies for Outsider-Insiders: Our Year Teaching Navy Chaplains” by Kate Ott and Kristen J. Leslie ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
