Women, War, and Feminist Solidarity on the Web

Abstract

This study investigates how some U.S. women are engaging in projects of solidarity around war on the Internet, how their positioning is represented, and how the site authors reach toward what María Lugones describes as ââ¬Åliminalââ¬Â spaces for coalition. While Lugones views the ambivalence in liminality as ââ¬Åboth a communicative opening and a communicative impasseââ¬Â (76), she sees possibilities if we continually keep in mind that we do not know another person and that we resist fitting her into a prefabricated narrative (84). This paper is part of a roundtable discussion on feminist solidarity with Layne Craig and Erin Hurt (ââ¬ÅTheory and Praxisââ¬Â), Morgan Gresham (ââ¬ÅCreating Feminist Solidarityââ¬Â), and Jessica Restaino (ââ¬ÅMother Rhetoricsââ¬Â). The websites examined are Women Against War and American Women in Uniform, Veterans Too!; this project outlines the ways in which these websites accomplish countering ignorance, contributing to solidarity around women and war, and forwarding feminist projects.