ABSTRACT
War continues to fascinate, trouble, and preoccupy the minds of academics, politicians, philosophers, writers, and artists. This chapter addresses three interlinked areas of feminist research on gender and war: the gendered imaginings of war; the gendered effects of war; and the gendered erasures from war. Feminist research on war has done much to interrogate and deconstruct the powerful and enduring gendered imaginings of war, as well as bringing attention to and politicizing the gender-specific experiences these imaginings, in part, make possible. The three feminist researches on gender and war focused on: women as combatants and perpetrators of violence; men who are opposed to war; and male victims of sexual violence. While conventional analyses of gender and war emphasize the vulnerabilities of women and girls, and their sexual vulnerabilities in particular, sexual violence against men and boys has received far less attention.
