ABSTRACT
This chapter examines feminist scholarship on war economies, starting with analyses that focus on the macroeconomic level and that explore the links between wars and specific gendered economies. This chapter highlights the lessons learnt from feminist analyses of gendered economic roles during violent conflicts, notably showing that although wars increase women’s precarity, they can also sometimes provide windows of opportunity to empower them. However, this chapter also shows that such opportunities rarely translate into an improvement in women’s economic roles and status after violent conflicts, as they are often pressured to return to the economic roles they held before the war.
