| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 206 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge studies in gender and security |
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Routledge studies in gender and security.
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| Contents |
Introduction: gender, war, and military sacrifice / Cecilia Åse -- Comparison as feminist method: denaturalising gender and nation / Cecilia Åse and Maria Wendt -- The politics of war rituals: military sacrifice and gendered meaning-making / Maria Wendt -- The new national war monuments: interrogating gendered narratives in commemorative sculpture / Vron Ware -- Artistic interventions: gender and nation in contemporary war art / Redi Koobak -- Debating deaths: the possibility of dissent in the face of military sacrifice / Hanne Martinek -- Gendered grief: mourners' politicisation of military death / Cecilia Åse, Monica Quirico, and Maria Wendt -- Conclusion: the gendered politics of contemporary military sacrifice / Cecilia Åse and Maria Wendt |
| Summary |
This book offers a feminist analysis of military sacrifice and reveals the importance of a gender perspective in understanding the idea of honourable death. In present-day security discourses, traditional masculinised obligations to die for the homeland and its women and children are challenged and renegotiated. Working from a critical feminist perspective, this book examines the political and societal justifications for sacrifice in wars motivated by human rights and an international responsibility to protect. With original empirical research from six European countries, the volume demonstrates how gendered and nationalistic representations saturate contemporary notions of sacrifice and legitimate military violence. A key argument is that a gender perspective is necessary in order to understand, and to oppose, the idea of the honourable military death. Bringing together a wide range of materials - including public debates, rituals, monuments and artwork - to analyse the justifications for soldiers' deaths in the Afghanistan war (2002-14), the analysis challenges methodological nationalism. The authors develop a feminist comparative methodology and engage in cross-country and transdisciplinary analysis. This innovative approach generates new understandings of the ways in which both the idealisation and the political contestation of military violence depend on gendered national narratives. This book will be of much interest to students of gender studies, critical military studies, security studies and International Relations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Cecilia êAse is Professor of Gender Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. Maria Wendt is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 22, 2019) |
| Subject |
War and society.
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Death -- Social aspects
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Feminist theory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- International Security.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.
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Death -- Social aspects
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Feminist theory
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War and society
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Åse, Cecilia, editor.
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Wendt, Maria, editor.
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| LC no. |
2018052504 |
| ISBN |
9780429826702 |
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0429826702 |
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9780429826689 |
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0429826680 |
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9780429448102 |
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0429448104 |
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9780429826696 |
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0429826699 |
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