UCLA Center for the Study of Women

International Women’s Day has been celebrated for over 95 years. It is a time when women’s voices regarding national and international events are meant to be the loudest. The continuous war and aggression in Iraq are on the forefront of many women activist’s minds. While this march will mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, the issue of women and war begs for our attention. Masculinist perspectives dominate the blogs, websites, journals, and radio programs devoted to discussing the war. And in the lineup of anti-war activists and commentators in the media, women are underrepresented and few speak about the specific impact of the war on women.