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1 online resource (352 pages) |
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Princeton Legacy Library |
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Princeton legacy library.
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PREFACE by Lynn A. Higgins and Brenda Silver ; INTRODUCTION by Miriam Cooke and Angela Woollacott; CONTRIBUTORS ; PART I: PRESENTING THE UNPRESENTABLE ; CHAPTER 1; Gendered Translations: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah ; CHAPTER 2; Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Terror, and Argentina's Dirty War -- PART II: WAR MYTHOPOEIA ; CHAPTER 3; The Threshold of Thrill: Life Stories in the Skies over Southeast Asia ; CHAPTER 4; Techno-Muscularity and the Boy Eternal: From the Quagmire to the Gulf ; PART III: HOME/FRONT?; CHAPTER 5; Notes toward a Feminist Peace Politics ; CHAPTER 6 |
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Sisters and Brthers in Arms: Family, Class, and Gendering in World War I Britain CHAPTER 7; Daughtering in War: Two ""Case Studies"" from Mexico and Guatemala ; PART IV: ENGENDERING LANGUAGE ; CHAPTER 8 ; WO-man, Retelling the War Myth; CHAPTER 9; Not So Quiet in No-Woman's-Land; CHAPTER 10; Wars, Wimps, and Women: Talking Gender and Thinking War; PART V: THE POLITICS OF PRESENTATION ; CHAPTER 11; Sexual Fantasies and War Memories: Claude Simon's Narratology ; CHAPTER 12 ; Danger on the Home Front: Motherhood, Sexuality, and Disabled Veterans in American Postwar Films |
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PART IV: INTERPRETIVE ESSAY CHAPTER 13; The Bomb's Womb and the Genders of War (War Goes on Preventing Women from Becoming the Mothers of Invention) ; POSTSCRIPT by Miriam Cooke and Angela Woollacott; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
In a century torn by violent civil uprisings, civilian bombings, and genocides, war has been an immediate experience for both soldiers and civilians, for both women and men. But has this reality changed our long-held images of the roles women and men play in war, or the emotions we attach to violence, or what we think war can accomplish? This provocative collection addresses such questions in exploring male and female experiences of war--from World War I, to Vietnam, to wars in Latin America and the Middle East--and how this experience has been articulated in literature, film and drama, his |
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Cover; Contents |
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War and society.
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Peace -- Social aspects
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Sex role.
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sex role.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Peace -- Social aspects
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Sex role
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War and society
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Woollacott, Angela
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| ISBN |
9781400863235 |
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1400863236 |
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