The Military Strategy of Women and Children

by Butch Lee

A collection of essays, most from the 80s, but with one 'post-Iraq', looking at how, in a man's world, women can make revolutionary change. "Now in this exploration, we are moving onto the ground of meta-politics. Wild, vast and more primal than the little fenced-in suburban plots of what amerikkka calls 'politics'. From the rape bordellos of the Balkans to the mass murder by AIDS in Afrika, women are being pushed to understand men's society and, most importantly, ourselves, in a different way. The longest Amazon journey begins today."

Genres: Feminism, Nonfiction, Race, Gender

Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Butch Lee is an Amazon theorist. Her work deals with the need to understand women's struggles in both their class and military dimensions, as well as the fundamental importance of grasping the relationship between colonialism, neo-colonialism, and patriarchy. Her books include The Military Strategy of Women and Children and Night-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain.

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Essay 1: "Amazon isn't a dot.com" - 2/5
Essay 2: Which Will You Be, Hammer or Anvil - 5/5
Essay 3: Science & Learning to Resist - 4/5
Essay 4: There's Fighting in Iraq but - 3/5

Probably a bit too radical or 'extreme' (I hate that word) for most readers, but don't let yourself be put off by that or by the author's choice of language. Behind those first impressions there is a large source of important information. Butch Lee delves deep into relevant history, digging up the roots and making valuable connections about social injustices that are still alive today.

[Miranda · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a very good and powerful book, and can help you begin to rethink the relation women have to euro-capitalism. My one complaint is that it is formatted more like a zine and so it lacks citations, which is disappointing, as there were many things I wanted to read further on.

[Canyon Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Liked the convo on Hanna Reitsch, Beguines, women's science; Igbo, mikiri, and Namibian womens' resistance, "Down with Love" Chinese maoist chants, and the science of genocide. Easy read, not too deep - but not too profound either. Finding out butch lee is a white woman is interesting though. You don't see too many white writers using terms like New Afrikan. Would recommend to someone just getting into this kind of writing, but the amount of meme pictures and format kind of made the book feel silly. Good altogether.

[Carla Sousa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is incendiary and impossible to forget, since it rips away the myths of equality under patriarchy, as an impossible notion, to reveal genocide as the engine of capitalism, with rape being seen as a genocidal weapon. The arguments are based both in history and urgency, calling for women to build our own armies and cultures. I only wished for a clearer battle plan, that make a clearer outcome from this brilliant call to action!

[Comrade Zupa Ogórkowa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Who doesn’t love reading about militant and revolutionary women especially in butch Lee’s style

[Kersplebedeb · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Mark Lamb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Powerful book. Helped me synthesize a few ideas that have been rattling around in my head.

An uncompromising feminist point of view. Excellent.