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Book SynopsisLooks at the lives of eight ordinary women, four Iraqis and four Americans, during the Iraq War. This title presents a comparison of American and Iraqi women's diverse and complex experiences and focuses on the different realities that together we call, perhaps too easily, 'the Iraq war'.
Trade Review"Stories help illustrate how gendered politics change over the course of a war and how this thing we call war itself changes over time." Ms. Magazine "Enloe's new work is a great addition to her oeuvre on women, militarism and consumer culture in international perspective." -- Carrie Rentschler Times Higher Education
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. Eight Women, One War The Iraqi Women 2. Nimo: Wartime Politics in a Beauty Parlor 3. Maha: A Widow Returns to Baghdad 4. Safah: The Girl from Haditha 5. Shatha: A Legislator in Wartime The American Women 6. Emma and the Recruiters 7. Danielle: From Basketball Court to Baghdad Rooftop 8. Kim: "I'm in a Way Fighting My Own War" 9. Charlene: Picking Up the Pieces 10. Conclusion: The Long War Notes Bibliography Index
