When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans written by Laura Browder

Sascha Pflaeging, photographer

 

This powerful collection juxtaposes 48 self-posed photographs by Pflaeging with oral histories collected by Browder to provide a dramatic portrait of women at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Women from all five branches of the military share their stories.

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Laura Browder is the author of Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America, named a Choice Outstanding Book; Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities, and Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America, both published by the University of North Carolina Press. Her plays, “Spitting Into the Wind” and “Sheep Hill Memories, Carver Dreams,” have been supported by grants and awards from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities and the Virginia Foundation on the Humanities. She is the writer/co-producer of the documentary Gone to Texas: The Lives of Forrest Carter, which she is completing this spring with the support of ITVS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Browder is a professor in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she teaches playwriting in the creative writing M.F.A. program.