Publisher's Synopsis
As the traditional time, space, organization, and representation of war have shifted, so have ways of describing it. As drug wars, civil wars, gang wars, and ideological wars have moved into neighborhoods and homes, the line between combat zones and safe zones has blurred. Cooke shows how women's stories contest the acceptance of a dyadically structured world and break down the easy oppositions-home vs. front, civilian vs. combatant, war vs. peace, victory vs. defeat-that have framed, and ultimately promoted, war.