when women are seen only as the symbols and the reproducers of the na tion, not as agents in its narratives, then they become subject to an array of controls over their bodies and their beings by men of the nation(Kaufman and Williams 2007: 16-18: Yuval-Davis 1997) Nevertheless, still other contemporary feminists have shown that there is a relationship between international violence and domestic violence. which gives women particular interests in resisting warfare and war preparedness because it produces men who do not visit violence"enemy" but also on their own wives, partners, and children. But men, too. feminists have argued, can develop interests in resisting war because of the harm it does to their bodies and psyches, leading to the destruction