Women and wars Where are the women In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan fight are injured by and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell though those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the gendered phenomena of war. Women have participated in the making fighting and concluding of wars throughout history and their participation is only increasing at the turn of the 21st century. Women experience war in multiple ways: as soldiers as fighters as civilians as caregivers as sex workers as sexual slaves refugees and internally displaced persons as anti war activists as community peace builders and more. This book at once provides a glimpse into where women are in war and gives readers the tools to understand womens (told and untold) war experiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of global social and political life P. [4] of cover