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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457389403321

Autore

Managhan Tina

Titolo

Gender, agency and war : the maternalized body in US foreign policy / / Tina Managhan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-44209-4

9786613442093

0-203-12618-1

1-136-45453-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

War, politics and experience ; ; 2

Disciplina

327.73001

Soggetti

Women and peace - United States - History

Women and war - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations 20th century

United States Foreign relations 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 'Superm