Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism

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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 peoples 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 womens lives, especially women of colors lives, and the broader environment upon which womens 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.

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This 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

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Wonhee Anne Joh is professor of theology and culture at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, faculty director of the Asian American Ministry Center, faculty affiliate in the Departments of Religious Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University, and author of, Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology and co-editor of Critical Theology Against US Militarism in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialization. Trauma, Affect and Race. Nami Kim is associate professor of religious studies and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Spelman College and author of The Gendered Politics of the Korean Protestant Right: Hegemonic Masculinity.