War and economic crisis eliminate women's jobs first, deepening poverty, financial dependence, and exposure to domestic violence. War has a male face, partly because most soldiers are men and because, throughout history, warfare has been understood as a masculine activity. Accounts of courage, death, and injury in war are all organised around the language of manhood. During war, other concerns are pushed aside in the name of survival. Staying alive and making it through become all that (…)