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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 people's lives, especially women and other vulnerable populations.
List 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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
