Women and War

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beautiful Souls/Just Warriors: The Seduction of War
1: Not-a-Soldier's Story: An Exemplary Tale
A Child of the 1950s: Images of War and Martyrdom
The Growing Up of a Political Theorist
2: The Discourse of War and Politics: From the Greeks to Today
Taming Homer's Warrior: Plato and Aristotle
The Ideal Republic: Machiavelli and Rousseau
The Nation-State
The Revolutionary Alternative: Marx and Engels
The "Science" of War and Politics: International Relations Becomes an Academic Discipline
3: Exemplary Tales of Civic Virtue
Women and the Civil War
The First World War: "My Nation-State, of Thee I Shout"
4: The Attempt to Disarm Civic Virtue
The Christian Conundrum: From Pacifists to Reluctant Warriors
Just War, Holy War, and the Witness of Peace
Female Privatization: The Beautiful Soul
Implications of the Just-War Tradition
5: Women: The Ferocious Few/The Noncombatant Many
The Historic Cleavage
Female Group Violence
The Ferocious Few
The Noncombatant Many
6: Men: The Militant Many/The Pacific Few
The Militant Many
The Pacific Few
The Literature of War
Structures of Experience: The Good Soldier/The Good Mother
7: Neither Warriors nor Victims: Men, Women, and Civic Life
The Liberal Conscience
Uncertain Trumpet: Feminism's War with War
Women as Warriors: "You're in the Army Now"
Beyond War and Peace
Epilogue
Notes
Index