| Summary: | This book demonstrates that the 'war on women' is not a metaphor but rather a global pandemic of violence against women that constitutes an actual war with female bodies serving as places of battle. The author shows that, of the many societal structures that enable both the violence of literal war and violence against women, the three most crucial factors are the desire for power, hierarchical authority structures, and contempt for the body. Not only do war and violence against women have some of the same social, cultural, and religious roots, but these roots are also mutually reinforcing. The book ritiques paradigms designed to limit or prevent war (pacifism, 'just peace,' and 'just war') from the perspective of violence against women and proposes changes to these paradigms.
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