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1 online resource (185 pages) |
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War, Politics and Experience |
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War, politics and experience
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| Contents |
Cover; Gender, Agency and WarThe maternalized body in US foreign policy; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: reading international relations through bodies, reading the maternal body as political event; 1. The vicissitudes of life: women's complex entanglement with peace and war; 2. Shifting the gaze from hysterical mothers to "deadly dads": spectacle and the antinuclear movement; 3. (M)others, biopolitics and the Gulf War; 4. Grieving dead soldiers, disavowing loss: Cindy Sheehan and the im/possibility of the American antiwar movement |
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Conclusion: the maternal body as alibi -- understanding the centrality of the maternal body to sovereign representationNotes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book traces practices of militarization and resistance that have emerged under the sign of motherhood in US Foreign Policy. Gender, Agency and War examines this discourse against the background of three key moments of American foreign policy formation: the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, the Gulf War of the early 1990s, and the recent invasion of Iraq. For each of these moments the author explores the emergence of a historically specific and emblematic maternalized mode of female embodiment (ranging from the 'hysterical' antinuclear protester to the figure of 'Supermom'), in order to |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women and peace -- United States -- History
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Women and war -- United States -- History
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Diplomatic relations.
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Women and peace.
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Women and war.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203126189 |
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0203126181 |
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