William Broyles Why Men Love War

Throughout history, war has been in direct relation to the patriarchal noble duty and thus to the masculine central character which goes back to the "White man's burden". That figure depends on a secondary character more vulnerable and backward. This stereotypic division legitimizes the intervention of the masculine character to civilize the lands of the secondary character instead of soldier's protection of his homeland as the true mission of the soldier. In a highly controversial article entitled "Why Men Love War", William Broyles Jr. discusses from his point of view what he describes as men's infatuation with violence. He asks "why thoughtful, loving men can love war even while knowing and hating it" (56). He expalins that it is "an experience
If feminine non- violent values take more place in politics, violence would lose its hegemony as a way of controlling the world. These feminine values have to be more regarded and put into effectiveness in the male-dominated world. Women must recognize the peaceful powers that they have, and to use them to reduce the incidence of war. Kitty Warnock justifies in "Women and War by Jeanne Vickers" why women in particular should face war, "[b]ecause it is women who suffer most heavily from its direct and indirect impacts ... it is women who suffer most from lack of health services, poor education, and sluggish economies ... Equality for women and peace go hand in hand: [it is] a doubly powerful force for change" (59). That's why the dissertation focuses on studying war narratives by women, specifically the neglected and marginalized Arab women's war narratives, because women find through writing a means to survive; to create images of the self; and to find a voice. The chosen novelists: Nada Awar Jarrar, Betool Khedairi and Susan Abulhawa among many other ones are, as Nawar Al Hassan Golley writes in Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity through Writing