Minerva Journal of Women and War
Guidelines for Reviewers
Minerva
Journal of Women and War seeks to provide informative and timely reviews of
books and films which focus on any aspect of women’s relationships with wars,
conflicts and militaries, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. In
addition to reviews of single items (or reviews of up to three items), longer
review articles are also welcome.
The
normal length for reviews is 750-1000 words for one item. A review of two items
should be approximately 1500-1800 words and a review of three items up to 2500
words. Review articles can be up to 4000 words long.
The
review should begin with the bibliographic information about the book(s) or
film(s) including the ISBN number if relevant. The review should end with the
full name and institutional affiliation of the reviewer. The first names of all
persons mentioned in the review should be provided. Where direct quotations are
used, a page reference should follow: “For the most part, we accept some rough
and ready division between male life takers and women life givers, a cleavage
enshrined through such symbolic vehicles as Beautiful Soul and Just Warrior.”
(p. 165)
A
review should contain a balance between description and critical evaluation. In
addition to providing an indication of the principal arguments and contents of
the book or film, a review should, where possible, comment on the significance
of the contribution which this work makes.
All
reviews should be double spaced and sent as Word documents attached to an email
message to the Reviews Editor at bookreviews.minerva@mcfarlandpub.com.
Acceptance for publication is conditional on approval. All reviews and review
articles are subject to editing.
Those
interested in reviewing books or films for the journal or who would like to
suggest such items to be reviewed are invited to contact the Reviews Editor.
The following books and films are currently available
for review:
(books and films highlighted in blue are out for
review)
Books:
Acton,
Carol. 2007. Grief in Wartime: Private
Pain, Public Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan. viii + 224pp. ISBN:
978-1-40394-696-6 (hbk) £50.
Al-Jawaheri,Yasmin
Husein. 2008. Women in
Cockburn,
Cynthia. 2007. From Where We Stand: War,
Women's Activism and Feminist Analysis. Zed Books,
Eager,
Paige Whaley. 2008. From Freedom Fighters
to Terrorists: Women and Political Violence. Ashgate: Aldershot and
Eisenstein,
Zillah. 2007. Sexual decoys: gender, race
and war in imperial democracy. Spinifex Press, Melbourne/Zed Books,
Fell, Alison S. and Sharp, Ingrid (eds). 2007. ‘The
Women's Movement in Wartime International Perspectives, 1914-19’ . Palgrave
Macmillan. 288pp. ISBN: 9780230019669, £53.00 (hbk).
Finlay,
Barbara. 2006. George W Bush and the War
on Women: Turning Back the Clock on Progress. xi + 268pp. ISBN: 9781842777855,
£14.99 (pbk); ISBN: 9781842777848, £50 (hbk).
Friedman, Barbara F. 2007. From the Battlefront to the Bridal Suite:
Media Coverage of British War Brides 1942-1946. x +
Gonzalez-Perez, Margaret. 2008. Women and
Terrorism: Female Activity in Domestic and International Terror Groups.
Routledge:
Goodpaster Strebe, Amy. 2007. Flying for Her
Country: The American and Soviet Women
Military Pilots of World War II. Praeger
Security International. 144pp. ISBN: 0-275-99434-1, $39.95;
£22.95 (hbk).
Holmstedt, Kirsten. 2007. Band of Sisters:
American Women at War in
Hunt, Krista and Kim Rygiel (eds). 2007. (En)Gendering
the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics. Ashgate. xvi +
234pp. ISBN: 978-0-75467-323-1 (pbk) £25; ISBN: 978-0-75464-481-2 (hbk) £55.
Jensen,
Kershaw, Angela and Angela Kimyongür. 2007. Women
in
Lilly, J. Robert. 2007. Taken by Force: Rape and
American GIs in
Oliver, Kelly. 2007. Women as Weapons of War:
Pankhurst,
Donna (ed). 2008. Gendered Peace: Women's
Struggles for Post-War Justice and Reconciliation.
Roberts,
David. 2008. Human Insecurity: Global
Structures of Violence. Zed Books,
Shepherd,
Laura J. 2008. Gender, Violence &
Security: Discourse as Practice. Zed books:
Sjoberg,
Laura and Gentry, Caron E. 2007. Mothers,
Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics. x +242pp. ISBN:
9781842778654 £55.00 (hbk); ISBN:
9781842778661, £17.99 (pbk).
Summerfield,
Penny and Peniston-Bird, Corinna. 2007. ‘Contesting
home defense: Men, women and the Home
Guard in the Second World War’.
Turton,
Katy. 2007. Forgotten Lives: The Role of
Lenin’s Sisters in the Russian Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan. ix + 257pp.
ISBN: 978-0-23000-762-8 (hbk) £50.
Films:
MY
HOME, YOUR WAR
An
extraordinary look at the effect of the
http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c712.shtml
MY DAUGHTER THE
TERRORIST
An exceedingly
rare, inside look at an organization most of the world has blacklisted as a
terrorist group, this fascinating documentary was made by the first foreign
film crew given access to the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) of
http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c714.shtml
THE
GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE
Shot
in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this extraordinary
film shatters the silence that surrounds the shocking plight of women and girls
who, caught in this country s intractable conflict, are being systematically
kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias
and the Congolese army.
http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c709.shtml
TO
SEE IF I'M SMILING powerfully explores the darker side of the
Israeli/Palestinian conflict through the testimonies of six female soldiers
about their compulsory military service in the
http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c719.shtml