Gender, agency and war the maternalized body in US foreign policy
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TextSeries: War, politics and experiencePublication details: London Routledge 2012Description: vii,175p. 24 cmISBN: - 9781138111134
- 327.73001 23 MA-G
- JZ1480 .M3257 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: reading international relations through bodies, reading the maternal body as political event -- The vicissitudes of life: women's complex entanglement with peace and war -- Shifting the gaze from hysterical mothers to deadly dads: spectacle and the antinuclear movement -- Mothers, biopolitics and the Gulf War -- Grieving dead soldiers, disavowing loss: Cindy Sheehan and the im/possibility of the American antiwar movement -- Conclusion: the maternal body as alibi: understanding the centrality of the maternal body to sovereign representation.
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