Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories

As we witness contemporary efforts around the world to 'come to terms' with the violence of the previous century, this volume develops tools to enable critical understandings of gendered wars and gendered memories. Advancing the theoretical and methodological sophistication of memory studies, war studies and gender studies, the book brings these three research fields into conversation with one another. Drawing on a variety of research methodologies and sources, including oral history, archival research and literary analysis, as well as new sources rarely subjected before to such intersectional analysis, Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the different ways in which gendered memories of war shape contemporary societies. Thematically arranged and discussing the participation of women in war, sexual violence in times of conflict, the use of visual and dramatic representations in memory research, and the creative ways in which feminist scholarship challenges and expands on the existing modes of research and writing, this book presents studies of war and violence from around the world spanning the last century, examining both the articulations of violence in relation to gender and the layers of silencing that can surround it. Theoretically and methodologically innovative, Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories will appeal to scholars working at the intersection of memory, military and gender studies, seeking to chart this emerging territory with 'feminist curiosity'.