Reproducing Revolution
Women's Labor and the War in Kachinland

Jenny Hedström (Author)

9781501782541

Hardback, published 15 July 2025

156 pages, 7 b&w halftones - 7 Halftones, black and white
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg

"Shed[s] light on how women's lives are shaped by resistance, exile and war, and how their voices and actions are central to the revolution in Myanmar." - Himal Southasian Mag

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.