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Record Nr.

UNINA9910636101303321

Autore

Greenburg Jennifer <1983->

Titolo

At war with women : military humanitarianism and imperial feminism in an era of permanent war / / Jennifer Greenburg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

9781501767753

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages)

Disciplina

355.00820973

Soggetti

Women soldiers - Government policy - United States

Afghan War, 2001-2021 - Participation, Female

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Doctrinal Turning Points in the New Imperial Wars -- The "Social Work" of War : Techniques and Struggles to Remake Military Labor -- Colonial "Lessons Learned" : The Contemporary Soldier Becomes the Historical Colonizer -- Soothing Occupation : Gender and the Strategic Deployment of Emotional Labor -- A New Imperial Feminism : Color-Blind Racism and the Special Operation of Women's Rights.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book examines the role of gender, international development, and history in the post-9/11 wars. It includes ethnography of counterinsurgency training, interviews with female soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and analysis of colonial and Cold War histories used to create military doctrine during the war on terror"--