Barry probes what happens to the value we hold for human life when we make war and explores the combat soldiers’ experiences through a politics of empathy. By revealing how men’s lives are made expendable for combat, she shows how military training drives them to kill, induces violence against women, and leaves soldiers to suffer both trauma and loss of their own souls. Barry offers hope by offering a new masculinity that draws on the experiences of men who are resisting war and who focus on the very humanity of their human life. Kathleen Barry is a sociologist, feminist activist and Professor Emerita. Her book Female Sexual Slavery launched an international movement against sexual trafficking in human beings and led to the formation of The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women which she co-founded.
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