Unmaking War, Remaking Men: Kathleen Barry Speaking in NYC

Monday, April 4 at 7:00 pm 

Revolution Books, 146 West 26th
(212) 691-3345 (212) 691-3345      

Kathleen Barry’s new book reveals how the military’s goal to drum empathy out of new recruits trains them to become remorseless killers. She shows how, even in demilitarized states, violence against women persists at high levels. Presaging the Wikileaks exposés of random killing by US soldiers in Iraq, Barry documents preventive killing as a daily occurrence in combat zones.

Thursday April 7,  2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

John Jay College Multipurpose Room 2200
North Hall, 445 West 59th Street, NYC

Challenging the Masculinity of War: Women Soldiers and Remaking Men

What happens to women when they enter the US military? How did combat and killing come to be a gender expectation of men? Why are we expected to believe that war is inevitable?  Who benefits from the power of individual men to abuse and rape women soldiers and the loss of soul that dehumanizes soldiers in combat?

Helen Benedict and Kathleen Barry will speak from their different approaches to these question and discuss with each other and the audience how feminism is fundamental to challenging the masculinity of war.

Cosponsored by World Can’t Wait, CodePink, On the Issues Magazine, John Jay College Gender Studies Program and The Women’s Center at John Jay College.