Description

Feminist 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 dispossession and militarized violence across the borders of nation-states. Interrogating U.S. military interventions in “other” countries can show how the U.S. War on Terror directly affects U.S. “domestic” affairs and daily lives in the United States.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

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

Product details

Published Dec 04 2019
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9781978752085
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 1 b/w photos;
Series Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Nami Kim

Anthology Editor

Wonhee Anne Joh

Contributor

Lisa Dellinger

Contributor

Wonhee Anne Joh

Contributor

Nami Kim

Contributor

Kate Ott

Contributor

Mai-Anh Tran

Contributor

Andrea Smith

Contributor

Pamela Lightsey

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