Solidarity: War Rites and Women's Rights

To untangle women's rights from war, the discussion by Armstrong and Prashad abandons the fiction of embodied innocence in the rhetoric of "women and children first" as well as the ahistorical and parochial use of "women's rights." This bundling of biology with enlighte...

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Published in:CR (East Lansing, Mich.) Mich.), 2005-04, Vol.5 (1), p.213-253
Main Authors: Armstrong, Elisabeth B., Prashad, Vijay
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biology
Children
Equal rights
Feminism
Fiction
Gender equality
Human rights
Men
Negotiation
Rhetoric
Solidarity
Third World
War
Women
Womens liberation
Womens rights
Womens rights movements
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Summary:To untangle women's rights from war, the discussion by Armstrong and Prashad abandons the fiction of embodied innocence in the rhetoric of "women and children first" as well as the ahistorical and parochial use of "women's rights." This bundling of biology with enlightenment humanism erases how the rights of women are negotiated and re-etched even as they seem to be won. "Women's rights" in war illuminate with heartbreaking clarity the battles still to be lost and fought again. The issue of women's rights as addressed by the US government since the Vietnam War is criticized.
ISSN:1532-687X
1539-6630
1539-6630
DOI:10.1353/ncr.2005.0028