Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Feminism and US wars : mapping the ground / Chandra T alpade Mohanty, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Robin L. Riley -- A vocabulary for feminist praxis : on war and radical critique / Angela Y. Davis -- Rese xing militarism for the globe / Zillah Eisenstein -- Feminists and quee rs in the service of empire / Jasbir Puar -- Interrogating Americana : an African feminist critique / Patricia McFadden -- In praise of Afrika 's children / Micere Githae Mugo -- What's left? : after 'imperial femi nist' hijackings / Huibin Amelia Chew -- Women-of-color veterans on war , militarism, and feminism / Setsu Shigematsu with Anuradha Kristina Bh agwati and Eli Painted Crow -- Decolonizing the racial grammar of inter national law / Elizabeth Philipose -- The other v-word : the politics o f victimhood fueling George W. Bush's war machine / Alyson M. Cole -- D econstructing the myth of liberation @ riverbendblog.com / Nadine Sinno -- "Rallying public opinion" and other misuses of feminism / Jennifer L. Fluri -- Afghan women : the limits of colonial rescue / Shahnaz Khan -- Gendered, racialized and sexualized torture at Abu Ghraib / Isis Nu sair -- Whose bodies count? : feminist geopolitics and lessons from Ira q / Jennifer Hyndman -- "Freedom for women" : stories of Baghdad and Ne w York / Berenice Malka Fisher -- The war on Iraq / Micere Githae Mugo -- Violence against women : the US war on women / LeiLani Dowell -- "We say code pink" : feminist direct action and the "war on terror" / Judy Rohrer -- Women, gentrification, and Harlem / Nellie Hester Bailey -- US economic wars and Latin America / Berta Joubert-Ceci -- Feminist org anizing in Israel / Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz -- Reflections on feminism, war, and the politics of dissent / Leslie Cagan -- Feminism and war : stopping militarizers, critiquing power / Cynthia Enloe -- Prosaic poem / Micere Githae Mugo.