Description
Women have been marginalized from the traditional understanding politics for a long time, and war is a major component of understanding world politics, women have not found enough channels to be represented in War memorials, through times immemorial, for all the contributions they have made over the years. "Where are the women?" as Cynthia Enloe talks in her seminal work, find relevance in the field of representation. Understanding women and their crucial contributions in the history of war become imperative to shatter the glass ceiling which decided to put limitations in analyzing their crucial contributions in the field. War memorials paint a selective picture which itself is problematic, as it selects a narrative at the cost of others, in this case, the women do not find a voice in the representation. As we speak, there are numerous war memorials which tend to oblige a narrative of the victors at the cost of the marginalized, especially in the Global South. A hard-earned struggle for independence in Global South is a well-known phenomenon, but are we still in the clutches of Imperial ideology which doesn't consider the voices of women?
As we reimagine world politics, we need to understand the fault lines where a selective understanding of memory has hampered the due contributions which the women have made in the field. In this project, we would examine War Memorials and the politics of representation, through a Feminist lens and understand how the women have been marginalized in the traditional study of war, through their representation in War memorials, especially in Global South
