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Militarized Zones:
Gender    Race    Immigration    Environment

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE
COMMITTEE ON WOMEN, POPULATION, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE

Photo: Rachael Kamel

Militarized Zones lifts up women's voices to explore how war-making is linked to racism, the criminalization of immigrants, attacks on LGBT communities, the demonization of Arabs and Muslims, the portrayal of young people as a threat to the future, the role of “demographic politics” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, restrictions on reproductive freedom, and more.

Photo: NEDA ROTEM, NEW PROFILE

“A fabulous resource for teachers, activists, and anyone who wants to be better informed about the world... Provides a critical vantage point from which to understand strategies of domination and resistance in the intersections of gender, race, immigration, the environment, and militarism.”

— Amrita Basu, professor of women's studies and political science, Amherst College

“If you want to know why militarism is bad for women and the environment, how immigrants are being scapegoated, and why it is not a good idea to have the military distribute food aid in Iraq, read Militarized Zones and learn how to connect the dots.”

— Meredith Tax, president, Women's World

“The smart feminists of CWPE show us how to think connectively about those subterranean militarizing processes that usually go dangerously uncharted. This is a publication to read, absorb, and use — sooner, not later.”

— Cynthia Enloe, author, Maneuvers: The International
Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives

Published as a special issue of Political Environments (PE No. 10). Includes a series of brief, accessible activist resources plus an annotated guide to groups working on issues of gender and militarism, in the US and internationally. Edited by Ryn Gluckman, Rachael Kamel, & Betsy Hartmann.

Militarized Zones is available from the American Friends Service Committee for $5 plus $1 postage & handling.

Order from:
Community Relations Unit, AFSC, 1501 Cherry St.,
Philadelphia , PA 19102.

(Sorry, only prepaid orders can be accepted.) Bulk rates available. For more information please contact cruweb@afsc.org or 215.241.7126.

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