Lisa Leitz | Britannica

Lisa Leitz

Contributor

BIOGRAPHY

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hendrix College. Author of Fighting for Peace: Veterans and Military Families in the Anti–Iraq War Movement (2014). Her contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (2009) formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.

Primary Contributions (3)

Articles

General Union of Palestinian Women

General Union of Palestinian Women (GUPW), umbrella organization for Palestinian women’s groups that was founded in 1965 as part of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Its general goal is to raise the status of women in Palestinian society by increasing their participation in social,…

Arab Feminist Union

Women’s Peace Society

Publications (2)

Fighting for Peace Veterans and Military Families in the Anti-Iraq War Movement (2014)

By Lisa Leitz

Fighting for Peace brings to light an important yet neglected aspect of opposition to the Iraq War--the role of veterans and their families. Drawing on extensive participant observation and interviews, Lisa Leitz demonstrates how the harrowing war experiences of veterans and their families motivated a significant number of them to engage in peace activism.

Married to a Navy pilot herself, Leitz documents how military peace activists created a movement that allowed them to merge two...

Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (2009)

By Jodi O'Brien

2009 RUSA Outstanding Reference
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009

"Given both the interdisciplinarity of the field of gender scholarship and the immense significance of gender to both indviduals and societies, it is probably impossible to produce such a compendium. The editor, advisory team, and contributors are to be credited for tackling a project of such immense scope...O'Brien's commitment to the possibility of a more-informed discourse on the highly complex and nuanced...