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Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War. By Cynthia Enloe. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2010. 336 pp. $60.00 cloth, $26.95 paper.

In her book, Cynthia Enloe invites the reader into a remarkably original and deeply compelling exploration of the gender dimensions of war. She takes as her starting point vignettes of eight women who lived through it — four Iraqi and four American. Through the eyes of Nimo, Maha, Safah, Shatha, Emma, Danielle, Kim, and Charlene, Enloe weaves a masterful tapestry of one war from the distinct, yet interconnected, realities of a handful of women who have each confronted their own front line. The resulting narrative is gripping. It tells the story of the unsparing shadow that war casts over communities, whether at home, in the beauty parlor turned war zone, or in the arena where soldiers carry out their duties. The narrative takes the reader into the gritty reality of torn limbs, lives, and families, and the struggles to survive, cope, and recover. Nimo’s War, Emma’s War is organized into nine chapters and a conclusion. In Chapter 1, Enloe maps out the conceptual terrain for a finely tuned approach to studying the history of the gendered contexts of war. Her point of departure is to call for understanding the distinctly gendered phases of war, including the gendered politics of war as they shift from the early to late stages of violence and its aftermath, and also their variations over time from one country to another in the same war. These comprise one set of profound observations that drive the feminist analysis throughout the book. They shed light on the militarization of beauty parlors, women’s bodies, and high schools, or the struggle for gender equality, for example. A second key observation concerns how