Imagining Russia [[electronic resource] ] : making feminist sense of American nationalism in U.S.-Russian relations / / Kimberly A. Williams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811924503321
• Autore: Williams Kimberly A (Kimberly Ann), <1975->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : SUNY Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-4384-3977-6; 1-4619-0533-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/24707309045
• Soggetti: Feminist theory; Nationalism - United States; Mass media and nationalism - United States; Mass media and international relations; National characteristics, Russian; National characteristics in mass media; Sex role; Nationalism and feminism; United States Foreign relations Russia (Federation); United States Foreign relations Soviet Union
• 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: Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Imagining Russia -- The Geopolitical Traffic in Gendered Russian Imaginaries -- Freedom for Whom? Support for What? -- Death and the Maiden -- Crime, Corruption and Chaos -- “It’s a Cold War Mentality” -- The Cultural Politics of Cold War -- Casualties of Cold War -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Co-winner of the 2009 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women's and Gender Studies, Imagining Russia uses U.S.–Russian relations between the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a case study to examine the deployment of gendered, racialized, and heteronormative visual and narrative depictions of Russia and Russians in contemporary narratives of ; American nationalism and U.S. foreign policy. Through analyses of several key post-Soviet American popular and political texts, including the hit television series The West Wing, Washington D.C.'s International Spy Museum, and the legislative hearings of the Freedom Support Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Williams calls attention to the production and operation of five types of "gendered Russian imaginaries" that were explicitly used to bolster support for and legitimize U.S. geopolitical unilateralism after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, demonstrating the ways that the masculinization of U.S. military, political, and financial power after 1991 paved the way for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.