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Event

Title:: Challenging the Masculinity of War: Women Soldiers and Remaking Men
When:: 04.07.2011 - 04.07.2011 14.00 - 15.45
Where:: John Jay College - New York
Category:: Speaking Engagements

Description

What happens to women when they enter the US military?
How did combat and killing come to be a gender expectation of men?
Why are we expected to believe that war is inevitable?
Who benefits from the power of individual men to abuse and rape women soldiers and
the loss of soul that dehumanizes soldiers in combat?

Helen Benedict and Kathleen Barry will speak from their different
approaches to these question and discuss with each other and the
audience how feminism is fundamental to challenging the masculinity of war.

This event will be from 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm in the Multipurpose Room 2200, North Hall.

Kathleen Barry, Professor Emerita of Penn State University, feminist

activist and sociologist is the author of the new book, Unmaking War,

Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and

Ourselves. Her first book, Female Sexual Slavery, launched an

international movement against trafficking in human beings and was

followed by Prostitution of Sexuality: The Global Sexual Exploitation

of Women with a new legal model for treating sexual exploitation as a

violation of human rights.

Helen Benedict, a professor at Columbia University, is the author of

several novels and nonfiction books, including the influential Virgin

or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes and, in 2009, The Lonely

Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq. She has written

dozens of articles about women soldiers and her new novel about the Iraq

War, Sand Queen, will be published this summer. The Lonely Soldier

helped to inspire the recent class action suit against the Pentagon on

behalf of women soldiers who've been abused.

Cosponsored by World Can't Wait, CodePink, On the Issues Magazine and

The Women's Center, The Gender Studies Program and Latin American and
Latino/a Studies at John Jay College.

Venue

Venue:: John Jay College
Street:: 445 West 59th Street
ZIP:: 10019
City:: New York
State:: NY