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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779996003321

Autore

Basham Victoria

Titolo

War, identity and the liberal state : everyday experiences of the geopolitical in the armed forces / / Victoria M. Basham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-138-71287-6

0-203-75832-3

1-135-01681-X

1-135-01682-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 208 p.) : ill., photographs

Collana

Interventions

Disciplina

306.270941

Soggetti

Sociology, Military - Great Britain

Soldiers - Great Britain - Attitudes

Women soldiers - Great Britain - Social conditions

Sex role - Great Britain

Masculinity - Great Britain

Geopolitics

Great Britain Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Materialising identity and the British warfare state -- 2. Intimacies of war and gender : the politics of women's bodies in war -- 3. Forbidden intimacies : rethinking military masculinities through heteronormativity and desire -- 4. Imperial encounters and the structural privileging of whiteness.