Reproducing Revolution: Women's Labor and the War in Kachinland

In Reproducing Revolution, Jenny Hedström explores the Kachin revolution in Myanmar from the perspective of female soldiers, female activists, and women displaced by the violence in northern Myanmar. Hedström argues that the household is an inherently gendered, militarized, and political space that impacts, and is in turn impacted by, the external conflict with which it coexists. In this context, women's everyday labor—the gendered work of childcare, farming, fighting, and forging connections both across households and between the household and the army and the nation—is key to revolutionary survival. Hedström calls this labor militarized social reproduction, and in Reproducing Revolution she demonstrates that such labor is critical to the military effort, and that warfare itself is shaped through everyday domestic action.

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Reproducing Revolution: Women's Labor and the War in Kachinland

In Reproducing Revolution, Jenny Hedström explores the Kachin revolution in Myanmar from the perspective of female soldiers, female activists, and women displaced by the violence in northern Myanmar. Hedström argues that the household is an inherently gendered, militarized, and political space that impacts, and is in turn impacted by, the external conflict with which it coexists. In this context, women's everyday labor—the gendered work of childcare, farming, fighting, and forging connections both across households and between the household and the army and the nation—is key to revolutionary survival. Hedström calls this labor militarized social reproduction, and in Reproducing Revolution she demonstrates that such labor is critical to the military effort, and that warfare itself is shaped through everyday domestic action.

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Reproducing Revolution: Women's Labor and the War in Kachinland

Reproducing Revolution: Women's Labor and the War in Kachinland

by Jenny Hedström
Reproducing Revolution: Women's Labor and the War in Kachinland

Reproducing Revolution: Women's Labor and the War in Kachinland

by Jenny Hedström

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In Reproducing Revolution, Jenny Hedström explores the Kachin revolution in Myanmar from the perspective of female soldiers, female activists, and women displaced by the violence in northern Myanmar. Hedström argues that the household is an inherently gendered, militarized, and political space that impacts, and is in turn impacted by, the external conflict with which it coexists. In this context, women's everyday labor—the gendered work of childcare, farming, fighting, and forging connections both across households and between the household and the army and the nation—is key to revolutionary survival. Hedström calls this labor militarized social reproduction, and in Reproducing Revolution she demonstrates that such labor is critical to the military effort, and that warfare itself is shaped through everyday domestic action.


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ISBN-13: 9781501782572
Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications
Publication date: 07/15/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 156
File size: 14 MB
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Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Jenny Hedström is Associate Professor of War Studies at Swedish Defence University. She is coeditor of Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar. Her research and teaching concern the relationship between households, gender, warfare, and peacebuilding—often with a focus on Myanmar.

What People are Saying About This

Cynthia Enloe

Beautifully written and carefully researched, Reproducing Revolution will be of interest—and value—to specialists, students, and practitioners engaging critically with Myanmar. From her first sentence, the subtlety of Hedström's writing illuminates the complexities of these Kachin women's war-riddled lives.

Jane Ferguson

This is an exciting new contribution on Myanmar's complex and heartrending political situation. By centering the voices of women soldiers in the Kachin ethno-national struggle, Hedström offers concrete and compelling evidence for women's undervalued work in the ongoing wars in Myanmar and its borderlands.

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