Helen Benedict
Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and the author of five novels and five books of nonfiction, her new nonfiction book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq was published by Beacon Press in 2009. Benedict’s play based on the book, The Lonely Soldier Monologues, was performed in New York City in March 2009.
Links for more information:
Dr. Benedict’s Columbia University Faculty page
Helen Benedict on the Private Wars of Military Women
“Award winning author and journalist, Helen Benedict, who testified twice before Congress regarding the issues of women in the military, is interviewed by Cindy Piester of Pulse TV and Maverick Media. Topics include, The Lonely Soldier, military sexual trauma, rape, and the new class action law suit against the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld, and Robert Gates.”
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Carol Burke
Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, she combines her ethnographic skills as a folklorist with her interest in literary journalism. Her publications include Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture and several other books. Her articles have appeared in The Nation and The New Republic, as well as in scholarly journals and collections. Before joining the faculty at UCI in 2004, she taught English and Journalism courses at the U.S. Naval Academy, Vanderbilt, and Johns Hopkins Universities. In 2006 her article appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle about the sexual harassment of Army Specialist Suzanne Swift.
Links for more information:
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5257
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040322/burke
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/15/MNGJFL6BUE1.DTL
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Cynthia Enloe
Research Professor of International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE) and Women’s Studies at Clark University, Enloe’s feminist teaching and research have focused on the interplay of women’s politics in the national and international arenas. Racial, class, ethnic, and national identities and pressures shaping ideas about femininities and masculinities have been common threads throughout her studies of militarization. She has written for Ms. magazine and the Village Voice and has appeared on National Public Radio and the BBC. Among her nine books (all published by the University of California Press) are: The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War (1993), Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (2000), Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (2000), and The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire (2004). Her latest book is Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War (2010).
Links for more information:
Women and Men in the Iraq War: What Can Feminist Curiosity Reveal ?
May 27, 2008 ~ Clarke Forum on Contemporary Issues ~ Dickinson College
Dr. Enloe’s Clark University Faculty page
The Progressive Radio Interview
University of California Press
Cynthia Enloe Bibliography on usmvaw.com
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Gwyn Kirk
A scholar-activist concerned with gender, racial, and environmental justice in the service of genuine security, peace-making, and creating a sustainable world. Co–author of Greenham Women Everywhere: Dreams, Ideas and Actions from the Women’s Peace Movement and five other books, she has taught courses in women’s studies, environmental studies, political science, and sociology at U.S. universities and colleges. With Margo Okazawa-Rey, she co-edited Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives, and she has written widely on ecofeminism, militarism, and women’s peace organizing. She is a founding member of the East Asia-US-Puerto Rico Women’s Network Against Militarism, which links scholars and activists dealing with the negative effects of U.S. military bases, budgets, and operations on local communities. Kirk is an active member of Women for Genuine Security. Her current research and writing focuses on organizing efforts to promote cleanup and healing from contamination caused by military operations and war.
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H. Patricia Hynes
“Dr. Hynes is a retired professor of environmental health from Boston University School of Public Health, who directed community-based environmental justice projects in Boston Public Housing and diverse, low-income neighborhoods in Boston. For her work, she has received many awards, including Life Time Achievement Awards from the Boston Natural Areas Fund and EPA New England, as well as Boston University teaching awards and an American Public Health Association Best Practice Award. Her book, “A Patch of Eden: America’s Inner-City Gardeners.” received the 1996 Book of the Year Award from the Arbor Day Foundation. An environmental engineer, Pat designed her passive solar home, worked for EPA in the Superfund Program and subsequently wrote “The Recurring Silent Spring” on the impact of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking critique of pesticides in agriculture. A longtime feminist, she co-founded Bread and Roses in 1974, a feminist restaurant and cultural center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Currently, she works and writes on peace and justice issues in western Massachusetts where she chairs the board of the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice.” (Truthout)
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Catherine Lutz
She serves as Watson Institute Professor of Research at Brown University and holds a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology, which she chairs. Her most recent books include The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle against US Military Posts (2009), Local Democracy under Siege: Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics (2007), and Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century (2001), in addition to many other books and articles. She served as the past president of the American Ethnological Society, the largest organization of cultural anthropologists in the U.S.
Links for more information:
Dr. Lutz at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
IVAW Panel: The Cost of the War at Home (video)
Anti War Radio interview April 11, 2008
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Margo Okazawa-Rey
Currently Professor in the School of Human and Organizational Development at Fielding Graduate University, she is also Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University. An educator and community organizer focused on militarism, globalization, and women’s rights, she is the co-author with Gwyn Kirk of Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives, and the co-author of Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to Anti-Racist, Multicultural Curriculum and Staff Development . She was a member of the Combahee River Collective in Boston during the 1970s and one of the founders of the Afro-Asian Relations Council in Washington, D.C. She served as Jane Watson Irwin Co-Chair in Women’s Studies at Hamilton College and holds a doctorate from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Most recently, she co-edited a special volume of The Journal of Social Justice, focused on neo-liberalism, militarism, and armed conflict. She is a founding member of the East Asia – U.S. Women’s Network Against Militarism,and the Institute for Multiracial Justice in San Francisco, organized to bring communities of color together to promote progressive politics. Okazawa-Rey is an active member of Women for Genuine Security.
Links for more information:
Dr. Okazawa-Rey’s Fielding Graduate University web site
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Suzuyo Takazato
A feminist peace activist who has analyzed the interplay between sexism and militarism from the experiences of women in Okinawa, she is a driving force in Okinawa, Japan, and internationally in raising the question: for whom does the military provide security? She serves as Co-founder and Co-director of Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence and a member of East Asia-US-Puerto Rico Women’s Network against Militarism. Her work has inspired global feminist peace movements for structural understanding of violence against women. She helped create Okinawa’s first rape crisis center to provide hotline and face-to-face counseling to victims of sexual violence, and her activism has led to large-scale protests by people of Okinawa against U.S. military bases.
Links for more information:
http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/255
http://www.genuinesecurity.org/partners/okinawa.html
http://www.archive.org/details/TheFWordInterviewNov272008
http://www.democracynow.org/2000/7/20/g_8_summit_from_okinawa_to
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